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Canada Reads Inspired episodes

January 28, 2023Reader Repartee with Sarah
Rebecca and Tara welcome Bookstagram and Canada Reads friend Sarah to answer the five questions.
Sarah's responses include:
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
Marmee by Sarah Miller
Revery: A Year of Bees by Jenna Butler
Sarah's Instagram: @sareshears
Rebecca's Instagram: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Tara's Instagram: @onabranchreads
25 min
January 26, 2023 2023 CBC’s Canada Reads Short List
Rebecca and Tara discuss the 2023 CBC's Canada Reads Short List and five defenders. They also make their predictions for this year's winner.
Rebecca's Instagram: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Tara's Instagram: @onabranchreads
21 min
January 22, 2023Reading Challenges
Rebecca and Tara welcome Bookstagram and Canada Reads friend Sarah to discuss the world of Reading Challenges.
POPSUGAR 2023 Reading Challenge
Scotiabank Giller Prize (personal challenge)
Adabiyat Book Club / Instagram: @__adabiyat__
JRR Tolkien (personal challenge)
Agatha Christie (personal challenge)
Read Around the World Challenge / Instagram: @readaroundtheworldchallenge
StoryGraph
Sarah's Instagram: @sareshears
Rebecca's Instagram: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Tara's Instagram: @onabranchreads
28 min
January 20, 2023Reader Repartee with Geoff
Rebecca and Tara welcome Rebecca's friend and former colleague Geoff--their first American guest--to answer the five questions.
Geoff's answers include:
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
American Rhapsody by Joe Eszterhas
The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
Enough Already by Valerie Bertinelli
Spare by Prince Henry
Geoff joined them via Sacramento (CA) Public Library.
Rebecca's Instagram: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Tara's Instagram: @onabranchreads
22 min
January 15, 20232023 CBC’s Canada Reads Long List
Rebecca and Tara predict the five contenders for CBC's Canada Reads competition, which airs March 27-30, 2023.
Rebecca:
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Greenwood by Michael Christie
Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew
Finding Edward by Sheila Murray
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice or Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Tara:
Greenwood by Michael Christie
Ducks by Kate Beaton
Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye or All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay
Finding Edward by Sheila Murray
Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin
Also, Tara mentions Kia Nurse, and Rebecca sends apologies to Andrew Phung for using his TV character's name, Andrew Pham.
Rebecca's Instagram: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Tara's Instagram: @onabranchreads
35 min
January 14, 2023Book Chat #3
Rebecca and Tara share the top three books they've read since Book Chat #2.
Rebecca:
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir by Paul Newman
Missed Connections: A Memoir in Letters Never Sent by Brian Francis
Ice Walker: A Polar Bear's Journey through the Fragile Arctic by James Raffan
Tara:
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
Scars & Stars by Jesse Thistle
Tara also references a favorite podcast: Eat Like a Heroine by Jenny Williams and Lorilee Craker.
Rebecca's Instagram: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Tara's Instagram: @onabranchreads
27 min
January 12, 2023 Interview - Hollay Ghadery and Fuse
In the first author interview of 2023, Rebecca is thrilled to chat with Canadian author Hollay Ghadery. Fuse, Ghadery's memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released in Spring 2021. Rebellion Box is her debut collection of poetry and is planned for publication in 2023.
Instagram: @hollayghadery
Twitter: @Hollay2

Rebecca's Instagram: @canadareadsamericanstyle

33 min
January 06, 2023Reader Repartee with Sandra
In the first podcast of the New Year, Rebecca welcomes Sandra, her Bookstagram friend, to answer the slightly revised Five Questions. Sandra's responses include the following titles:
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Portrait of an Unknown Lady by Maria Gainza
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Rebecca makes a quick reference to The Five by Hallie Rubenhold.

Rebecca's Instagram: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Tara's Instagram: @onabranchreads
21 min
December 31, 20222022 Wrap Up - 2023 Goals
Happy New Year!! Rebecca and Tara wrap up their first year of podcasting together and discuss what they read in 2022 and if they met their goals. Then they'll share their New Year goals for 2023!
Rebecca's highlights:
Nora Watts series by Sheena Kamal
What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition by Anne Frank
Instagram: #readingtheworld / #readtheworld / #readaroundtheworld
Rebecca's Instagram: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Tara's highlights:
On Account of Darkness by Ian Kennedy
The Spoon Stealer by Lesley Crewe
Starling by Kirsten Cram
Tara's Instagram: @onabranchreads
35 min
December 06, 2022 Interview - Sheena Kamal and The Lost Ones (Nora Watts series)
Rebecca and Tara are thrilled to chat with Sheena Kamal, whose bestselling debut The Lost Ones won her a Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, a Strand Critics Award, and Macavity Award for Best First Novel. The sequel It All Falls Down has been called “a stunning, emotionally resonant thriller” in its Kirkus-starred review. No Going Back and her first YA novel Fight Like A Girl were released in 2020.
According to her website, The Lost Ones is a dark, compulsively readable psychological suspense debut, the first in a new series featuring the brilliant, fearless, chaotic, and deeply flawed Nora Watts—a character as heartbreakingly troubled, emotionally complex, and irresistibly compelling as Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander and Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole.
TikTok and Instagram: @sheenakamalwrites
Website: https://www.sheenakamal.com/

Rebecca's Instagram: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Tara's Instagram: @onabranchreads

33 min