#IMWAYR MARCH 11, 2024

 Welcome! It's #IMWAYR time again, when bloggers share what they have been reading and find out what others have been up to. Kathryn hosts the adult version of this meme at Book Date. Kellee and Ricki at Unleashing Readers host the kidlit rendition. These are fabulous places to start your search for what to read next.


My sister returned from galavanting around the world, so we started working on a quilt for one of our friends. Each May we go away for 4 days with a group of the same women. We have almost finished a quilt for each of them. This friend loves birds so we asked everyone what bird they most resonated with. This quilt is really pushing us way past our comfort zones since we are making our own paper pieced bird blocks. To make matters worse, I started working on these blocks last fall, and can't remember what I was doing. I think I am spending as much time picking out seams as I am sewing. 

The great Canada Reads Debate was last week, so I tried to keep on top of that even though I haven't read all the books. 

Aside from that, I worked two days and spent one day travelling for an appointment a couple of hours away. 

All this means that I didn't finish a whole lot last week. I was almost finished What Comes Echoing Back by Leo McKay Jr. but my book expired and the library took it back. Now I will have to wait to get it again. After than I started a number of books, but abandoned them when I couldn't get into them. I ended up listening to Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands again after just finishing it. I also read, with my eyes, the scary bits of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder that I had skipped over in the audiobook. 

I contemplated just leaving off posting this week, but two of our grandkids will be arriving to stay with us for the next 10 days, and next Sunday, another two will be joining in the fray. I don't expect to find much time for reading, never mind posting about what I am reading, till they have returned home.  

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PICTURE BOOKS

4 stars

What You Need to Be Warm
by Neil Gaiman and illustrators: Yuliya Gwilym, Nadine Kaadan , Pam Smy, Daniel EgnΓ©us, Beth Suzanna, Marie-Alice Harel, Petr HorÑček, Chris Riddell, Bagram Ibatouilline, Benji Davies, Majid Adin, Richard Jones, & Oliver Jeffers October 31, 2023

Thanks to Myra @ Gathering books for the introduction to this one. 
Neil Gaiman crowd sourced memories of what it means to be warm. He took these ideas and transformed them into a poem. Each page is illustrated by a different artist. Gaiman donated the poem to the UN refugee agency. Funds from the sale of the book go towards keeping people warm. 
It's a beautiful poem full of gorgeous black and white  images with touches of reddish orange. 


All the Beating Hearts
by Julie Fogliano & Catia Chien (Illustrator) January 31, 2023

I've gone through this a number of times and with each reread, I find more beauty in both the poem and the images. 




Ice Bears at Ice Edge
by Robert Burleigh & Wendell Minor October 17, 2023

Thanks go to Linda Bai for introducing me to this absolutely stunning book!
This tale of a mother polar bear and her cub trapped on a disintegrating ice flow is riveting. Wendell Minor's illustrations are swoon worthy gorgeous. 
I appreciated that two pages in the back matter include additional polar bear facts and details how the climate crisis make their survival as a species precarious.

ADULT/YA FICTION


Slough House
 by Mick Herron & Gerard Doyle (Narrator) 
February 9, 2021

This is the seventh book in the Slough House series. I somehow missed it and read number 8, Bad Actors, first. This one filled in a number of gaps. Dianna Taverner, head of MI5 has got herself into a complicated mess. Because of it, a murder team from Russia is trying to kill off the Slough House agents - present and past. 

CURRENTLY

The Faint of Heart by Kerilynn Wilson June 13, 2023
Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower by Charlie Angus February 1, 2022  πŸ
The Grace of Things by Heather Fawcett February 14, 2023

UP NEXT (MAYBE)

Besties Work It Out by Kayla Miller

I will continue to deal with the picture books pile.

READING GOALS 

#MustRead2024 3/25 one on the go

NonFiction 7/24 

Canadian Authors 8/50 one on the go

Indigenous Authors 4/25 

Goodreads Reading Challenge: 40/200 

#IMWAYR March 4, 2024

Welcome! It's #IMWAYR time again, when bloggers share what they have been reading and find out what others have been up to. Kathryn hosts the adult version of this meme at Book Date. Kellee and Ricki at Unleashing Readers host the kidlit rendition. These are fabulous places to start your search for what to read next.


It's been a packed couple of weeks. Last Monday I attended a quilting workshop and worked half a day. I ended up working three days last week, but managed to get the flimsy finished. I think I will send it off to be quilted. I worked more on my unicorn paper pieced quilt, and made more shoes for mice. I also spent time learning how I might make cowboy boots.... 

I did not get much reading with my eyes accomplished in the last couple of weeks. 

I asked my partner to take some photographs of the two mice I created specifically for someone. The next thing I knew, we were having a photoshoot. I've posted some of those images onto the above page, Stuffed Mice. I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoy making them. I might consider taking orders for them.... 

PREVIOUS POST

MG FICTION


I plan to get a detailed review about these four magical friends published sometime this coming week.

ADULT/YA FICTION


It took me a while to get into this one. It's a ghost story, but it's also about loneliness, friendship, love, grief, and figuring out who you are. 
Winifred Blight and her father live in an apartment above a crematorium in a cemetery. Her Indigenous mother died when she was born, and is buried in the graveyard there. She and her best friend, Jack, grew up playing in and around the gravestones, even trying to photograph ghosts. As they entered their teen years, they remained connected, but he moved on to a wider group of friends. 
When they have a falling out, Winifred ends up being haunted by Phil, a real ghost. 
What I appreciated most about this book (and all of Dimaline's novels) is the richness of her characters. Each has a credible backstory. We are filled with empathy for all of them, especially Phil, who is one of the murdered and missing Indigenous women. 


In some ways I liked this book even more than the first in the series. Emily really comes into her own as a strong, independent, indomitable heroine. I wished there had been more of Wendell Bambleby, but then, he has been poisoned and isn't really up to much of anything. I liked that in the last book, Wendell has to save Emily. This time round, it's Emily who is doing the rescuing. The important thing about their relationship, is that Wendell loves Emily just the way she is, and she, in spite of the dangers inherent in loving one of the fae, returns his regard. 
This series is kind of like brain candy. It's a charming fantasy involving faerie worlds. There is enough adventure, terror, and just the right amount of romance to make for a satisfying read. It's a wonderful break from the complex nonfiction and more intense novels I've been reading. 
I hate that I now have to wait until 2025 for Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales

4 stars

Junie
by Chelene Knight & Nneka Elliott (Narrator) September 13, 2022  πŸ

Hogan’s Alley was a thriving Black and immigrant community located in Vancouver’s East End. Junie is a girl growing up there in the 1930's. It's the story of her relationship with her mother. It's about enduring friendships and coming to terms with one's sexuality.
I confess that I did not finish this book. My failure to finish is all about me, and certainly not about the quality of the writing or the importance of the narrative.
I don't deal well with scary of any kind, especially when it can result in terrible things for a child protagonist. I find that listening to a book is worse than reading with my eyes. When I am reading with my eyes I can skim these sections. It's much more intimate and terrifying when the story feels like it's being streamed into your head through your ears.

ADULT/YA NONFICTION


This a profound book about "how and why the rest of us abide poverty and are complicit in it." While Desmond shows us how so many extremely wealthy people and organizations can get away with not paying their fair share of taxes, he also articulates how and why the rest of us, mostly middle class folk, benefit from keeping the poor in poverty. It's not for the faint of heart. Be prepared to take an honest and clear eyed look at where your money comes from, and where it goes.
This book is primarily about America, and while he mentions some of the positive aspects to the Canadian perspective, (our higher unionization rate has kept salary rates higher for all workers - and we have a single payer medical system) much of this applies equally to us.

5 stars

Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
 by Michelle Good & Megan Tooley (Narrator)  πŸ

In this collection of essays, Good introduces readers to historical and modern aspects of Indigenous life. She examines racism, broken treaties, cultural pillaging, the disregard for Indigenous lives, and the importance of Indigenous literature. She shows how colonialism underpins modern social systems that continue to have devastating effects for Indigenous people today. 
If readers want to really understand the full history of what it means to be Indigenous here in Canada, I encourage them to read this one and Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation by Andrew Stobo Sniderman & Douglas Sanderson.

5 stars

Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
by Kyo Maclear  πŸ

After her father died, a DNA test revealed that Kyo Maclear's father, was not her biological parent. As her world unravelled, she learned that both her parents were keeping all kinds of secrets. 
While this memoir is about the unveiling of those secrets, it's also about being the child of immigrant parents, of being a biracial child and a member of the Japanese diaspora, and about caring for aging parents. It's also about gardening.
I suspect that as we age, we all learn to know our parents in new ways on an ongoing process. This is partly what this book shows, but it specifically addresses the last years when life for them begins to unravel. 
Her attempts to discover more about her biological father are hampered by her mother's reticence to talk about her life, and by her increasing dementia. 
What took me unawares, was is how deeply I connected to Maclear's experiences. There are pieces of it that are windows into a reality I've never encountered. Other parts are mirrors that reminded me of discovering my own parents secrets. I most profoundly related to the reality of looking after a brain addled and aging parent in the last years of her life. 
Did I mention yet how exquisite the writing is? Seriously, huge chunks, if not all of this, are like listening to poetry read out loud. No wonder it won the 2023 Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction! It's just stunning! 
If you want to know more about this book, you can listen to Shelagh Rogers interview Kyo Maclear here.

CURRENTLY

Sunshine Nails by Mai Nguyen July 4, 2023  πŸ
The Faint of Heart by Kerilynn Wilson June 13, 2023

UP NEXT (MAYBE)

Besties Work It Out by Kayla Miller
Slough House by Mick Herron

I will deal with the picture books pile this week or else!

FEBRUARY READING UPDATE:

books read: 19
graphic novels: 3
nonfiction: 3
nonfiction picture books: 2
adult/ya novels: 7
MG novels: 0
Chapter books: 1
Picture books: 1
Indigenous Authors: 3
Black Authors: 1
Canadian Authors: 4

READING GOALS 

#MustRead2024 3/25 one on the go

NonFiction 7/24 

Canadian Authors 8/50 one on the go

Indigenous Authors 4/25 

Goodreads Reading Challenge: 36/200 

FIRST FRIDAY POETRY MARCH 2024

I'm joining Beverly A Baird & Linda Schueler in a "year long poetry practice – on the first Friday of each Month," when we, and anyone else who joins, writes a poem and pairs it up with a photo relating to it.

I keep a Mary Oliver collection of poetry beside my recliner. Her work inspires me to find the sacred magic in the ordinary trappings of my life. My goal for this year is to write poems that celebrate this. 

Occasionally I wake up early enough to watch the sunrise. No matter how it shows up, I am always filled with awe.  Today's poem is about that. 

My partner doesn't get up early enough to take photographs of the dawn so I sent out a request for images. I was inundated with beauty. Unfortunately, no one takes pictures of those ordinary mornings when nothing flashy really happens. Yet ultimately, these are my favourite kind, reminding me that all of us are good enough just as we are. 

Photo by Sheri Stelkia


daybreak benediction


some mornings

the deep indigo of night

transforms,

fluorescing the horizon


a spectacle of 

amethyst, coral and crimson

crowns the sky


some mornings

the dark firmament

cleaves from the earth


crepuscular rays

gild the clouds and hills

in a glory hallelujah


some mornings

there is no fanfare

the stygian sky

just disintegrates

delivering us 

into the faded slate

of a new day



Photo by Trevor Reeves

Photo by Ron Peace

Photo by Trevor Reeves


In case you are interested, the above photographs can be purchased from the photographers. Let me know if you want their contact information.

#IMWAYR February 19, 2023

Welcome! It's #IMWAYR time again, when bloggers share what they have been reading and find out what others have been up to. Kathryn hosts the adult version of this meme at Book DateKellee and Ricki at Unleashing Readers host the kidlit rendition. These are fabulous places to start your search for what to read next.


Happy Family Day to everyone! Here in British Columbia, it's a day off. I hope you all find time to spend with the ones dear to you.
 
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FICTION PICTURE BOOKS


"Six people from different corners of the world celebrate the history, culture, and beauty behind their names."
This summary from my library's website tells nothing about how gorgeous and important this book is. I struggled with the pronunciation of many of the names. It's a good thing Joanna Ho shares how to say them so people like me can practice them before reading the book to a group of students. 



A young boy wakes up to discover snow outside. As he waits to go out and play in it, he imagines himself going through the steps to build a perfect snowman. At last he is dressed and heads off to start. Things don't go as planned, but in the end he realizes that his creation is good enough. 
As I read this book, especially the step by step snowman building process, I wished I was still teaching so I could use it as mentor text for procedural writing. 


This beautifully illustrated book taught me things I didn't know about the moon and how it influences different creatures on our planet. 

Henry likes routines. He likes things to stay the same. He likes to know what is going to happen when. So when their regular class schedule is disrupted and share time is switched to a different time to make space for a parade, he isn't happy. 
Thankfully, Henry finds a way to participate in the parade on his own terms. 
 
Henry's anxiety ratchets up as the week progresses and the day of change draws nearer. Bailey and Song show us how his dread affects him at a physical level. He has volcanoes in his stomach and not even his friend Katie can help him feel better. 
I appreciate the diversity of Henry's classroom. I can't recommend this book enough!

GRAPHIC NOVELS

This is is a graphic adaptation of the book by the same name. It's a brilliant retelling of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, who kept books alive while living at Auschwitz. The artwork is just brilliant.
I haven't read the original book, so I can't compare the two versions of the story. I really appreciated this one. Even though I have read many other narratives about the camps, I had no idea that the Nazi's kept a separate compound of Jewish prisoners to trick the Red Cross into thinking that all were being treated fairly. 


Milo and his family have moved into a new house. He's busy exploring when his mother asks him to check the basement for his baby sister's missing pick sock that their grandmother knitted.
To be honest, I was terrified along with Milo when he first went down those dark stairs. Then he sees a rat and freaks out for a bit. Soon he discovers a key and a doorway into a new room. He spies the rat with the sock and takes off after it. In the process he discovers it is a "really big basement!" It has multiple levels full of all kinds of treasures as well as a few horrors. He meets and befriends some strange creatures in this underground world. Together they help him search for the sock. One of those horrors is a slimy green gobbler that devours whoever it comes across. When it eats his new friends, he has to come up with a way to rescue them.
This is a brilliant yarn. (pun intended) I couldn't stop flipping through the pages to see what Milo would discover next. The levels are full of stunning replicas of famous artwork. The illustrations are absolutely gorgeous.

ADULT/YA FICTION


When Dr. Sophie de Greer, a member of a government think tank goes missing, Anthony Sparrow, a bureaucrat close to the Prime Minister, accuses MI5 of disappearing her. Dianna Taverner, first desk of the agency, is their prime suspect. Meanwhile, the denizens of Slough House may or may not know where she is. 
Confusion, mayhem, treachery, and the usual backstabbing shenanigans ensue. 
I am now almost caught up in Mick Herron's Slough House series. I'm waiting for number 7, and then will have to wait along with everyone else for the next book to be published.


To be completely honest, I did not read all of this book. I don't do thrillers well, and when I came to the part where Pippa (the teen protagonist) figured out who the murderer was, I was too terrified to listen any more. I skipped to the end of the book to see how it all turned out. I do have a reserve on a text version of it so I can skim through the harrowing pages. 
Aside from that, I was completely invested in this debut novel. 
Pippa, who plans to become an investigative journalist, decides to examine a five year old murder for her final high school project. As she digs into the case she discovers that Andie Bell, the murder victim, wasn't the innocent she was purported to be. She discovers that many people close to her are keeping dangerous secrets, and that lies, racism, and corruption flourish under the town's patina of wholesomeness. I adored Pippa, her family, her friends, and her budding romance with Ravi, brother to the alleged murderer. 


This was a delightful respite following the previous novel. It's a mostly cozy historical mystery set in Victorian England. Violet and her sixteen year old half sister, Sephora, live with their Aunt Adelia. When she heads off to the continent with a new beau, she leaves Violet responsible for answering the Dear Miss Hermoine letters for her published advice column. Luckily Bunty, their aunt's housekeeper is there to help her.
One of the letters troubles Violet so she heads off to the village of Willingdale to meet the author, Ivy Armstrong. She arrives in the village just in time to attend Ivy's funeral. Posing as a school friend, Violet determines that Ivy's death was neither accident nor suicide and sets out to uncover who murdered her. There are plenty of suspects.
Meanwhile, Sephora is having a clandestine relationship with a secret beau. When he disappears she sets off into dangerous part of London to find him.
The story is told from the perspectives of the two sisters. Whereas Violet is educated and studious, Sephora is a social butterfly. At first their two narratives seem unrelated, but eventually they weave together. 
Even though this has a number of hair raising episodes, it's also full of humour. I'm looking forward to reading the next in the series. 

I am a huge fan of fairy tales of any kind. I tell you this so you know I was predisposed to enjoy this, and I did. 
Emily Wilde is a adjunct professor at Cambridge who specializes in dryadology -  faerie folklore. She travels to the Scandinavian country of Ljosland to be the first person to document the local faeries and complete her Encyclopaedia of these creatures.
She doesn't get off to a good start with the local townspeople of Hrafnsvik. (Emily comes across as someone who might be on the autistic spectrum, since as brilliant as she is, she doesn't do social interaction well.) Then one of her colleagues, the handsome and charming Wendell Bambleby, shows up and offers to help. He is much more than he first seems. The two of them seem like opposites so you know romance is in the offing. 
What I like most about this book is the dark faerie lore and how it is integrated into the plot. It is full of changelings, enchantments, and all kinds of nasty faerie shenanigans.  
While Emily deals competently with many aspects of faerie folk, she also ends up over her head. As experienced as she is, she ends up caught in her own kind of fairy tale nightmare and has to be rescued by Bambleby and the rest of the townsfolk. 
I'm not happy with women needing rescue by men, but I'm still  planning on reading the sequel. 

CURRENTLY
 
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
Stazy and the Magic List by Nancy Hundal October 15, 2023  πŸ
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline  πŸ

UP NEXT (MAYBE)

The Faint of Heart by Kerilynn Wilson June 13, 2023
Besties Work It Out by Kayla Miller

READING GOALS 

#MustRead2024 3/25 one on the go

NonFiction 4/24 one on the go

Canadian Authors 5/50 two on the go

Indigenous Authors 2/25 one on the go

Goodreads Reading Challenge: 29/200 

#IMWAYR February 5th, 2024

Welcome! It's #IMWAYR time again, when bloggers share what they have been reading and find out what others have been up to. Kathryn hosts the adult version of this meme at Book DateKellee and Ricki at Unleashing Readers host the kidlit rendition. These are fabulous places to start your search for what to read next.

Last Monday my specialist put me on antibiotics to treat my sinus infection. I've got another week to go. If you've ever had one of these, you know how hard they are to treat. He is sending me off for a scan to see what is going on in there before he repairs the damage done when I broke my nose in 2020. 

I did manage to work for 1 1/2 days last week although I was completely done in afterwards. 

In my creative life, I'm continuing to work on a knitted sweater for my son. I've also  been trying to finish up an order I took for two mice. I've finished up the clothing she wanted, and even though she didn't ask for it, am attempting to make shoes for them. It is really finicky given that the mice feet are at most, one inch long. I will make sure to share a picture of them when I am done.
 
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NON FICTION PICTURE BOOKS

4 stars

Crayfish
by Lola M. Schaefer January 1, 2002

I was subbing for one of the local teacher librarians last week. She asked me to read a couple of books to the primary groups who would be coming in. 
When I came upon this book, I knew it would be one of them. When I was a girl growing up in this area, there were lots of crayfish (crawdads) in the river and other bodies of water. I haven't seen any in many years, but that might be just because I'm not looking for them. 
This is "a basic introduction to crayfish, focusing on their physical characteristics, habitat, diet, and activities." I wish there had been more about how their eggs are fertilized.
It is a wonderful nonfiction title for beginning readers from prek to grade 2. I appreciate that it has all kinds of important nonfiction text features: labeled photographs, a table of contents, a glossary, an index.

This is the other book I read to those groups of primary students. If I had read it before, I didn't remember it although I did recall that it is a great read. 
It's a take on children wanting to keep wild animals for pets. In this case, a bear finds a boy in the bushes and convinces his mother to let him keep it as a pet. Like all the other Peter Brown books I've read, the art is charming, it's loaded with humour, and reveals an important lesson. 


When I first finished this, I was left pondering VR (virtual reality). Part of me worried that spending time in VR is a way to avoid reality and thus, not trying to change negative aspects of it. However, as I reflected more on the book, I realized that in many ways spending time in VR is a lot like reading. Yes it has an escapist component, but sometimes, that's what you need. It's also a way to learn more about yourself and the world around you. Perhaps if we could spend time in an artificial world, we would be able to come back more aware of what is missing and be motivated to change our lives.
This is in essence, what this book is about.
Addie (named after a toirtoise) and her father travel across the country for his summer job, teaching university students working with VR. Her mother, for reasons that are not clear at first, is unable to come with them. After a rocky start, she ends up becoming friends with Mateo, a boy across the hall. The two of them come up with ways to use VR to help patients in the hospital where Mateo volunteers.
There is a lot going on in this book. At the same time as we learn about VR, we learn about space travel, the longest living tortoise, opiate addiction, death, grief, and forgiveness.
I really appreciated the diversity of the characters and the authenticity of the relationships between them.

ADULT/YA FICTION


This is a sequel to Moon of the Crusted Snow. In the first book we learn that something has destroyed the electrical grid, the world has gone dark, and is experiencing an apocalypse. A small Anishinaabe community in the north, after dealing with destructive outsiders and the deaths of many of it's members during the first winter, has survived.
The remaining people decide that in order to survive they will need to move to where there are better food sources. A group of six set off south to find out if they will be able to return to their original territory on one of the great lakes. Their journey is fraught with all kinds of dangers. Some come from the land itself and others from the humans they run into on their journey. Not all of them make it. 
A couple of times I became so terrified for these characters that I had to skip forward in sections of my audiobook. 

ADULT/YA NONFICTION

It's a paradigm shift that takes a deep look into the evolution of our species from the perspective of women's biological needs and the role they play in society. It examines the intersection of biology, sex, gender, culture, and evolution.
The writing is brilliant - full of scientific information, but also cosy and intimate, like when she refers to a Morganucodon, a rodent that lived 200m years ago in the Jurassic period, as Morgie.
She's going to piss a lot of people off with some of her thinking, like the fact that trans women are really women, but who really cares.
Everyone should be paying close attention to the chapters on love, especially with regards to the nutritional needs of girls and women.

I'm really looking forward to talking to my book club about this book. Charlotte Gill writes about her life as the child of an English mother and Sikh father.
The book is both personal, and global. It addresses the reality of racism at both micro and macro levels. On the one hand it's an exploration of a family trying to navigate their way through the remnants of two worlds, and fit into a third. It's a tale of family and relationship dissolution. In the end it's about forgiveness.
It's also examines the impact of systemic racism in our cultural institutions and what that is like at a personal level. She writes about her experience of being half brown, of being a member of the diaspora and not really fitting in anywhere and of dealing with racist experiences associated with her skin colour.

CURRENTLY

Bad Actors by Mick Herron May 2022
The Librarian of Auschwitz (Graphic Novel Version) by Antonio Iturbe, Salva Rubio (Adaptation), Lilit Zekulin Thwaites (translator) & Loreto Aroco (Illustrator) January 2023
Things in the Basement by Ben Hatke August 29, 2023

UP NEXT (MAYBE)

Of Manners and Murder by Anastasia Hastings February 7, 2023
The Faint of Heart by Kerilynn Wilson June 13, 2023
Stazy and the Magic List by Nancy Hundal October 15, 2023  πŸ

January Reading Update: 

I read 16 books (3569 pages)

graphic novels 3
picture books 2
nonfiction picture books 2
middle grade novels 4
YA/adult novels 3
YA/adult nonfiction 2
BIPOC authors 7

READING GOALS 

#MustRead2024 3/25 one on the go

NonFiction 4 

Canadian Authors 5/50

Indigenous Authors 2/25 

Goodreads Reading Challenge: 19/200