Shauna and Rebecca review the second book on their list for 2021 CBC's Canada Reads, Two Trees Make a Forest by Jessica J. Lee.  Rebecca makes a comparison between the grandmother in Two Trees with the mother in the graphic novel The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui.

Shauna and Rebecca review another shortlist book for the 2021 CBC’s Canada Reads annual competition. As a talented baker, Shauna has an affinity for the beautiful descriptions of food, while Rebecca outlines a plotline that she was convinced would play out.

 

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Shauna and Rebecca are excited to chat with Roger Mooking, chef, restaurateur, television host, author and award-winning recording artist, who is championing Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi for the 2021 CBC's Canada Reads competition.  They are so touched by Roger's comments on librarians.

Shauna and Rebecca kick off 2021 CBC's Canada Reads with a review of The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk.  Will anyone be surprised that Shauna loved this book?!?

Shauna and Rebecca are thrilled to chat with Morgan Murray, author of Dirty Birds, arguably the most creative, inventive farce of 2020-21.  They think you will agree that it should have been on the 2021 CBC's Canada Reads longlist.     

YouTube: https://youtu.be/KZt2HlkvRPY

FB: @morganmurraywrites

Website: http://morganmurray.ca/

Rebecca is excited to have Larissa back to talk about the impact of Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy, which Larissa highly recommended on one of her Instagram stories (@the.bookmom).  During the podcast the two unearth a few gems they hadn't considered until their discussion.

Shauna and Rebecca began their podcast to talk about Canadian literature and Canadian authors.  However, Rebecca begged Shauna to let her branch out to speak to arguably the hottest author to come out of the pandemic: Andrew Cotter, who is the content creator behind the Olive and Mabel viral videos as well as the author of the wonderfully entertaining Olive, Mabel & Me.

Shauna and Rebecca are excited to chat with author Marcello Di Cintio regarding his most recent book, Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Life in Contemporary Palestine, which is a non-fiction account of Palestinian life through the words of the poets and authors who experience beauty and grace in a landscape known to most of us for its wars and crisis.

Link to Duke Franklin Humanities Institute presentation: https://youtu.be/KYPjKtugLZc

Additional Palestinian authors discussed: Tala Abu Rahmeh, Hala Alyan, Mazen Maarouf, Mourid Barghouti.

Once again Shauna and Rebecca take a shot at trying to predict which of the CBC's Canada Reads 2021 longlist titles will be selected for the competition, which begins March 8, but, not surprisingly, they each pick a different set of five.  Which ones do you think make the cut?

Shauna and Rebecca each share their Top 5 best reads of 2020, which include titles written by non-Canadians.  No hints, no tags...just play along and see if you can guess any of the titles on their list! 

And HAPPY NEW YEAR!  Let us hope that 2021 makes us proud!