Showing posts with label War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label War. Show all posts

#IMWAYR June 13, 2022

 Welcome readers! 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. Jen at Teach Mentor Texts and Kellee and Ricki at Unleashing Readers host the kidlit rendition. These are fabulous places to start your search for what to read next. 



This summer I'm once again joining Sue Jackson and others to participate in the 2022 Big Book Summer Challenge. Click on the link if you want to know more about this fun event. I have a list of sixteen books that I may or may not get to this summer. You can have a look at it here.

As I write this on Sunday, it is day thirteen, and I'm still dealing with Covid. The line on the test that confirms positive is fading, so I'm optimistic that it won't last forever. I am feeling better, but my respiratory tract system is out of control and small bits of work exhaust me. These days, while napping is my favourite pastime, I do sneak out into the garden to pull weeds for short intervals and do the odd bit of housework. Thankfully my partner is the main cook around here. 

I did manage to find the time and energy to make an apron for my daughter in law whose birthday was last week. I will send it off to her as soon as I can leave the house. 


Titles with a 🍁 indicate this is a Canadian or Indigenous Canadian Author and or Illustrator.

Clicking on the title will take you to the Goodreads page of the book.

PICTURE BOOKS 

A special thanks and shoutout to Max @ Completely Full Bookshelf for introducing these first two book to me.

4 stars

Every Little Kindness by Marta Bartolj (Illustrations) October 12, 2021

This wordless book gobsmacked me from the get go. The art work is brilliant. It's mostly sepia toned with significant bits in red. Following these bright splashes of colour is important because it provides clues for where an act of kindness has been and where it will go next. I like how acts of kindness are inspired not just by being on the receiving end, but also by watching kindness in others. 

Making new friends is challenging for most of us - even in the best of times. For Violet, it's even harder. She is infatuated with Mira, a popular girl in her class. As friendly as Mira is with her, Violet can't get over her own anxiety and shyness to invite Mira to have adventures with her. Even when she crafts a special valentine for Mira, it's not certain that Mira will ever get it.
I love the sweetness in this book. It's a perfect mirror for queer children and any of us experiencing our first crush.

Thanks to Beth Shaum @ A Foodie Bibliophile for the introduction to this one.

Gibberish is the perfect picture book to read at the beginning of a new school year: especially if you have new language speakers in your class. As someone who once taught English as a Second Language, I highly recommend it for all teachers. If I was still working, I would read it to the staff at our first group meeting.
Dat, a young boy, heads off to school in a place where he doesn't know the language. Everything sounds like gibberish to him. On top of that, People can't seem to get his name straight. It's all overwhelming for the young boy. Then a young girl takes him in hand. She invites him to play with her and, as she befriends him, ends up helping him learn this new language.
The imagery in this book is absolutely brilliant. Vo reveals Dat's experience by portraying the speakers of gibberish as black and white cartoonish characters, while Dat himself is shown more realistically in colour. While his emotions are shown clearly, the reader has to work a bit harder to unpack those of the rest of his cartoonish classmates. As Dat's comprehension of this new language increases, we see glorious colour and realism emerge all over the pages.
Young Vo shows Dat's world transform across the span of one day. It is really my only quibble with this book. I know it's only a metaphorical day, but I worry that children might think that learning a new language is easier than it really is.


This is a lovely story about a girl (Jyoti) and her grandmother (Sita Pati). They live in different countries and speak different languages, but the love between them overcomes those barriers. At first Jyoti and her family visit with Sita Pati in India. Then Sita Pati visits Jyoti in United States.
The title of the book comes from Tamil words of parting the author's grandmother taught her to say, instead of goodbye. Enjoy this book trailer. 

Each night before I go to sleep I set the timer and listen to an audiobook. Focusing on the book while I nod off keeps my brain from getting caught up in worrying about the things that otherwise keep me awake.
The book has to be one I have already read, and one without any terrifying bits in it. I've discovered that many of Pratchett's Discworld novels are perfect. Some nonfiction works too.
In The Wee Free Men, Tiffany Aching manages to rescue Wentworth, her little bother, and Roland, the Baron’s son, from the Queen of the Elves. It is a gripping adventure wherein a talking toad, the Nac Mac Feegles, and a frying pan play important roles in the rescue. The remarkable thing about Wee Free Men is that I have now read or listened to it more times than I can remember, and with each read, even when I'm half asleep, I find more to marvel at.   

ADULT NOVELS 


Kate Quinn pretty much had me from the first paragraph of this book. I was fascinated by her fictionalized portrayal of the life of Mila Pavlichenko. Pavlichenko was a Russian Sniper during WW2. After recording at least 311 official kills, she was part of a congregation of Russian students who were sent to the United States to try and encourage that country to engage in a second front against the Germans. Once there she was taken under the wing of Eleanor Roosevelt.
I got so caught up in her story I forgot about what is now happening in the Ukraine. Upon reflection I can't help but acknowledge that how we see stories of war and the participants, really depends upon whose side we are on.

ADULT NON FICTION

5 stars

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake May 12, 2020

Merlin Sheldrake is frigging brilliant.
Not only is this book full of fascinating information about fungi, it is a delightfully entertaining read that's easy to digest. (pun intended) Listening to it read by the author is an absolute treat. He fills the narrative with nuances of emotion, especially wry humour and excitement.
This book is mind bending in multiple ways. (again, pun intended) The scope of what he takes on in this book is almost overwhelming. Even though I knew a bit about systems theory and fungal networks, my head nearly exploded trying to rid myself of old notions of how the world works and fit a new world view into it.

If you are only going to read one nonfiction title this year, make sure it's this one.

CURRENTLY

An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives by Matt Richtel

Satellite Love by Genki Ferguson  πŸ

Rez Rules by Chief Clarence Louie πŸ

UP NEXT 

Worser by Jennifer Ziegler

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

READING GOALS

#MustReadFiction 12/24 

#MustReadNonFiction 9/18 one in progress

Canadian Authors 31/100 two in progress

Canada Reads shortlist 5/5 

Indigenous Authors 11/25 one in progress

2022 Big Book Summer Challenge 1  one in progress

Goodreads Reading Challenge: 135 /250
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#IMWAYR March 14, 2022

 Welcome readers! 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. Jen at Teach Mentor Texts and Kellee and Ricki at Unleashing Readers host the kidlit rendition. These are fabulous places to start your search for what to read next. 


I'm here today with a couple of weeks of reading. It's a schedule I might adhere to since I seem to have a lot happening in my life these days. 

Titles with a 🍁 indicate this is a Canadian or Indigenous Canadian Author and or Illustrator.

Clicking on the title will take you to the Goodreads page of the book.

PICTURE BOOKS

5 stars

Aaron Slater, Illustrator by Andrea Beaty & David Roberts (Illustrations) November 2, 2021

Just Wow! I think this is my favourite title from this series. This story, told in verse, is based on Aaron Douglas, an American painter, illustrator, visual arts educator and a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. 
Aaron Slater is a young boy with dyslexia. Learning to read is hard for him, but he is a gifted story teller and artist. He is lucky to be surrounded by supportive family and teachers who love and appreciate him as he is while they help him learn to read. Every school library should have at least one copy of this book. Classroom libraries should have copies of it. I wish it had been around when I was still teaching to share with students who struggled with learning to read. 


As someone who sews, I was predisposed to love this book. I did. I read it twice. I especially love that the collage illustrations show Elizabeth's designs in real fabric. I liked that the book didn't gloss over the horrible things that happened to her while she was a slave.
I'm left wondering what she wrote in her book that made Mary Lincoln so mad at her.

These biographies in verse are a delightful introduction to these three young women. Maria Merian and Maria Mitchell are new to me. I have been reading about Mary Anning, so I knew a fair bit about her. I like how Jeannine Atkins' poetry brings an emotional poignancy to these biographies.

NOVELS


This is a fictionalized account of Mary Anning, known as the Mother of Palaeontology. Some of the events in her life are mixed up (like the opening of her shop), but this is an interesting look into her life.

4 stars

Pax, Journey Home by Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen πŸ (Illustrator) & Michael Curran-Dorsano ( Narrator)

The war is over. In this book we see how Pax has moved on with his life and new family. In the mean time, Peter is still coming to grips with almost overwhelming loss. He joins the Water Warriors to help cleaning up the land and water destroyed by war. He doesn't want to connect with others because he doesn't want to experience that kind of loss ever again. In the end, when Pax needs him, his healing begins in earnest. 
I started reading this about the same time Russia invaded Ukraine. It left me wondering how people recover from these kinds of atrocities. 

The more I read of Nnedi Okorafor, the more I want to read.
It's almost impossible for me to put one of her books down once I've started. AO and DNA just might be the sweetest couple I've read in a long time. It helps that their romance is really incidental to the brilliant science fiction. I hope this is the first in a series. 

4 stars

Ikenga by Nnedi Okorafor & Ben Onwukwe (Narrator) August 18, 2020

It says a lot about Okorafor's writing that I was totally engaged in this super hero novel. It's a genre that I generally avoid. After Nnamdi's father, the police chief, was murdered, he and his mother end up living in near poverty. Then the ghost of his father gives him an ikenga, a small artifact that confers magical powers. Nnamdi uses these powers to fight crime and search for his father's murderer. He agonizes over his use of violence. When his friend Chioma learns what is going on, she ends up helping him. The numerous confrontations with the father's possible murderers and the almost completely corrupt police system make this a fascinating read. 


I am not well acquainted with the bible, but I enjoyed this fictional history that deals with the lives of women. It has been on my want to read list for a decade or so. I'm glad I finally got around to reading it. 

CURRENTLY
  • Powwow, A Celebration Through Song and Dance by  Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane πŸ
  • Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez πŸ
  • The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour by Dawn Dumont πŸ
  • The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
UP NEXT 
  • Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson
  • Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of Katherine Johnson by Katherine Johnson
READING GOALS

#MustReadFiction 5/24 

#MustReadNonFiction 1/18 - 2 in progress

Canadian Authors 15/100

Canada Reads shortlist 5/5 rereading one

Indigenous Authors 5/25 - 2 in progress

Goodreads Reading Challenge: 56/250
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#IMWAYR November 9, 2020

Hello out there. It's #IMWAYR time again, when readers share what they have been reading and find out what others have been up to in the past week. Kathryn hosts the adult version of this meme at Book Date. Jen at Teach Mentor Texts and Kellee and Ricki at Unleashing Readers host the kidlit rendition. Whatever you are looking forward to in your next great read, these are fabulous places to start your search.

Congratulations to all my American friends on a successful election. We celebrate with you, not only the first Black woman vice president, the first woman vice president! The days ahead might be rocky and there is a lot of work ahead to unity your fractured country, but for now we are revelling in the victory of democracy in your country. You have returned hope to many of us in the rest of the world. 

I'm working hard to finish up a quilt for my son and daughter in law. Using a quilt as you go process, I'm turning a Piet Mondrian painting into a reversible quilt. I'm now putting all the sections together. It's a lot of hand sewing for the final seam in each sashing. I'm getting a sense of what it will look like finished and am liking it more and more. I will post pictures next week.

 Titles with a 🍁 indicate this is a Canadian Author and or Illustrator. 

Clicking on the title will take you to the Goodreads page of the book. 

RECENT BLOG POSTS

PICTURE BOOKS


My Hair is Beautiful by Shauntay Grant πŸ

This board book highlights different hairdos of black children. The last page has an embedded mirror for readers to look at themselves. I might not be the target audience, but looking at the faces of these happy toddlers brought joy into my heart. Shauntay Grant is the award winning Canadian author of Africville and Up Home.


I am trying to get on top of this series. What a wacky and wonderful collaboration between Arthur Yorinks and Sergio Ruzzier. When Mean Ant ends up lost in the middle of the desert and asks, "Where the jalapeΓ±o am I?, I started laughing and chuckled all the way through to the end. I love the hilarious idioms and play on words. The comical interactions between the ant and the fly are delightful. If only my library had the next one.

NONFICTION PICTURE BOOKS


I'm Trying to Love Rocks by Bethany Barton

This humorous book introduces young readers to the many aspects of studying geology. I sure wish it had been around when I was teaching this topic. If I was still in the library I would purchase 2 copies. 

Bethany Barton's earlier book, I'm Trying to Love Spiders, helped me come to some kind of truce with those creatures. While people might not have pathological fears to overcome with regards to rocks, this book is certain to make them passionate about learning more about them. 

It is a brilliant introduction for older readers ready for a deeper study these aspects. I'm pretty sure that my four year old grandson, who loves rocks, will love this.

DISCWORLD NOVELS


This novel is both a murder mystery and parody of opera. Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Og head off to Ankh-Morpork for a couple of reasons. The first is to deal with a shady publisher who has cheated Nanny Og. The second is to see if they can recruit Agnes Nit into their coven since Magrat Garlick has gone off and married the King of Lancre. Agnes knows their purpose, but is almost content at the opera house as a member of the chorus. Not only is the opera house haunted, the ghost has started murdering people. 
This might be one of the most hilarious novels in the series.  


Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett & Nigel Planer (Narrator)

"Terry Pratchett pastiches the traditions of vampire literature" with hilarious results. When a group of modernized Vampires take over Lancre Castle, things look very dire indeed. Even the powerful Granny Weatherwax seems incapable of dealing with them. However, Granny's strength should never be underestimated. With the help of Brother Oats, the new priest, she is a force even Vampires shouldn't try to mess with.

NONFICTION


This is a powerful look at what it means to have PTSD. RomΓ©o Dallaire, a retired three star Canadian general and retired Senator, writes about the aftermath of his time in Rwanda. As leader of the peacekeeping troops there, he was unable to stop the genocide of the Tutsi and other people in 1994.

What Delaire makes clear in this book is that war is not what it once was: “The soldiers had changed, as had war itself: it was no longer a matter of superpowers meeting each other on the field of battle, but the new world disorder. We were Cold War warriors ready to fight huge armoured forces in Central Europe, hoping that these small, inter-state kerfuffles were just a passing phase. But we were no longer facing classic war, or even classic peacekeeping: in this new style of warfare civilians, even women and children, are not only on the front line, they are the front line. The Somalia mission was able to degenerate the way it did because our training had not adapted to these new realities.”

Not only does this book reveal how he deals with his own PTSD, it chronicles the ways he fought, and continues to fight for help for soldiers returning from recent conflict. In Canada, “We have lost more veterans to suicide during and since our mission in Afghanistan than we did in our thirteen years of combat there.”

If we truly claim to honor our soldiers and others who deal with traumatic experiences (police, ambulance, firefighters etc) then it is our duty to ensure that they are well cared for, emotionally, physically, and financially when they can no longer serve.

This is a challenging emotional read. I wept a number of times. 


This is a powerful read that looks at America through the lens of a caste system. Isabel Wilkerson compares the USA to India and Nazi Germany. (Did you know that the German Nuremberg Laws were based on the segregation laws of the Southern states?) There are sections in this book I found challenging to read. I took breaks and went back to it because essentially it is bearing witness to historic atrocities.  
I read and finished this while Americans and the world waited for the results of the 2020 US election results. While I am happy with the results, after reading this, I'm also not surprised that 70 million people, almost all of them white, (five million more than last time) voted for that orange menace. 
I learned a lot from this book. I can't help but integrate the role global unfettered capitalism has in exacerbating the deep rooted issues Wilkerson identified here.


An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski & Pam Ward (Narrator)

I mostly enjoyed this feel good story. I appreciated the author's honesty and enjoyed reading about her early life. It was in her interactions with Maurice that I became uncomfortable. I don't think she fully grasped the responsibility she took on when she befriended this young boy. She acknowledges that it benefited her as much as him, but at the same time, once she found the man of her dreams, she very nearly abandoned him. 
I was glad that the afterward includes a letter from Maurice sharing his perspective of their relationship. In spite of my misgivings, I am glad that these two disparate people met.

CURRENTLY 

I've started Ghosts by David A Robertson. I'm listening to Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett. 

UP NEXT 

My next audiobook will be Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi. I'm hoping to get to Class Act by Jerry Craft and Bloom by Kenneth Oppel.  

PROGRESS ON MY READING GOALS 

#MustReadIn2020: 21/25 

#MustReadNFIn2020: 10/12 

Books by Canadian Indigenous Authors: 21/25 one in progress

Books by Canadian Authors: 121/100 

Goodreads Reading Challenge: 291/333

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#IMWAYR November 12, 2018


#IMWAYR time again, when readers share what they have been reading and find out what others have been up to in the past week. Kathryn hosts the adult version of this meme at Book Date. Jen at Teach Mentor Texts and Kellee and Ricki at Unleashing Readers host the kidlit rendition. Whatever you are looking forward to in your next great read, these are fabulous places to start your search.

 BTW, I've followed the lead of Shaye at The Miller Memo, so if you clink on the title link for each book, it will take you to the GoodReads page for that book. 


We are at our Oliver house this weekend. We just wanted to get away, and also to attend the Remembrance Day Ceremony at our home town. When the names on the roll call are familiar ones, the intimacy of it brings a heightened understanding of what war takes away from us. 

It's been relaxing and sort of productive. I've gotten a lot of reading in and accomplished a bit of knitting, but haven't touched the fabric I planned to cut up while here. Maybe I'll get to it Monday afternoon after reading all your blog posts?

PICTURE BOOKS

5 stars
I Lost My Tooth! (Unlimited Squirrels) by Mo Willems

This book is fun, factual, and fabulous!
The front end covers show us all the characters in this book. (I’m fond of Flappy Squirrel myself)
The book has one big story that’s loaded with Mo Willems classic puns and nonsense. It’s delightful. Then there are joke and information sections. The layout reminds me of Ben Clanton’s Narwhal and Jelly books.
Every primary classroom needs this. (And Clanton’s series as well)

5 stars
I'm Sad by Michael Ian Black & Debbie Ridpath Ohi (Illustrator)

I am in awe of Michael Ian Black & Debbie Ridpath Ohi. Their characters, a little girl, a potato, and a flamingo, reveal to us, in 40 pages, important truths about what it means to be human. Sometimes we are sad. Each one of us gets over it in different ways. We don't love each other less because of this. Laughing together helps.

4 stars
How to Knit a Monster by Annemarie van Haeringen

As a reader and a knitter, it is inevitable that I would enjoy this book. My knitting, thankfully, has never gotten nearly this out of control. Greta the Goat ends up getting carried away with her knitting and her emotions. In the process, she creates a few monsters.  It's a close call before she figures out how to unravel them all.

4 stars
The Cat and the Wizard by Dennis Lee & Gillian Johnson (Illustrator)

About a year or so ago I was called in to evaluate papers written by grade seven students. They had been given the first part of this rhyming poem and were asked to analyze it. I have been itching to read the rest of the poem ever since. So when I discovered this picture book on display, I had to have it.
It begins with a description of an elderly, gifted wizard, travelling around in search of welcome. This section is all the students saw.
The poem is so much more. There's a lonely sociable cat. Eventually the two characters meet and end up becoming best of friends. Gillian Johnson's magical illustrations bring their shenanigans to life. 

GRAPHIC

4 stars
Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir by Maggie Thrash

While Maggie is away at an all girls’ summer camp, she becomes infatuated with one of the camp counsellors. It appears that her feelings might be reciprocated. It’s Maggie’s first awareness that she is queer, and it’s not an easy revelation. She finds solace in her unexpected giftedness at the rifle range, but that relief is disrupted by antagonism from the other young woman in competition with her.

I enjoyed this coming of age memoir. I appreciated the brutal honesty. While I don’t generally appreciate teen angst, it fits into this story because of its authenticity. My only quibble is that while I like the simplicity of the artwork, there are a lot of characters with complex personalities, and I had difficulty sorting them all out. I suspect that additional details would have helped with that.

CHAPTER BOOKS

5 stars
The Princess in Black and the Science Fair Scare by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale & LeUyen Pham (Illustrator)

This might be my favourite title in the series so far. Princess Magnolia sets off to a science fair. While she is there a monster pops out of a volcano. She changes into the Princess in Black and together with the Princess in Blankets, they attempt to subdue the monster, who is only looking for a home and something to eat. Eventually the two heroes and three other Princesses band together to take it where it can live.
I like the science focus here, but I love that these princesses work together to find a solution that works for everyone, including the monster. The ending, that suggests that all princesses can be heroes, is the best! 

NOVELS

4 stars
Making Bombs for Hitler (WW2) by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

I forget how much I love Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch’s writing until I finish another book by her. She writes historical fiction imbued with the truth of impeccable research. Not only that, she writes characters that you can’t help but connect with and care for.
Making Bombs for Hitler tells the story of Lida, a young Ukrainian girl, who was taken by the Germans during WW2 to be a slave labourer.
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch reminds us that war has many victims. Yes we need to remember the 25 million fallen soldiers, but up to 80 million civilians died in the Second World War and its aftermath. I’m thankful to Skrypuch, and writers like her, who tell their stories.
I also highly recommend Dance of the Banished, another of Skrypuch's historical novels 

4 stars
A Long Line of Cakes by Deborah Wiles

Another Aurora County novel from Deborah Wiles is cause to celebrate! This is especially true given that I had thought the series was complete with the publication of The Aurora County All-Stars, (my favourite so far)

The Cake family, with five boys, one girl, and their parents, arrive in Aurora County in the middle of the night. This itinerant baking family travels around from place to place baking cakes and helping people out until it is time to move again. They are a delightful crew who work together as a team when it is time to bake, but those boys can be raucous when the work is done and it’s time to play.
Emma, the only daughter, has had enough of moving and leaving friends behind. She is determined to harden her emotions and not develop any close relationships this time. Luckily, she is no match for Ruby Lavender, the protagonist from the first book in the series. Together the two of them hatch a plan to force the Cake family to stay.

I’m pretty sure I gained weight reading about all the cakes, cookies and muffins the family prepares. I kept wondering and hoping if there would be recipes at the end. You will be happy to know that there is, but you will have to read the book to find out what kind!

NONFICTION

4 stars
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann, Will Patton (Narrator), Ann Marie Lee (Narrator),Danny Campbell (Narrator)

I was worried that this book was going to be a thriller that would scare the bejeezus out of me. It’s terrifying all right, but not for those reasons. It's truth, not fiction.

In the early 1910’s, when oil was discovered on their land, the Osage Nation became wealthy. Each member received a share, known as their headright, of the proceeds.
Unfortunately Indians were not considered competent to look after their own money and so guardians were appointed to monitor their spending. What ensued among the whites in the area of was a culture of corruption and murder. Not only were the Osage taken advantage of through price gouging and embezzlement, David Grant ends up concluding that between 1910 and the 1930’s around a hundred Osage people were murdered by white people for their headrights. Few of these murderers were ever brought to justice. It ended only when the Osage were able to handle their own money, and laws were put in place so that individuals had to be at least 1/2 Osage to inherit these rights. 

 This book focuses primarily on the role Bill Hale and his compatriots played in this reign of terror, and how their apprehension led to the consolidation of the FBI.

What terrified me and continues to distress me is the magnitude of prejudice and corruption in these circumstances. I can’t help but make connections to the many murdered and missing indigenous women in North America today and contemplate that much of this is connected to law enforcement officers and others in power being blinded by their own racism. It’s left me wondering, how much graft we would find if we scratched the surface of political influence today.

Many thanks to my cousin Rhoda Peters, Sue Jackson at Book By Book and and others who encouraged me to read this book.
If it isn't on your must read list, it should be.

CURRENTLY

I've started listening to Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga. I'm reading, with my eyes, We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices. 

UP NEXT

I'm planning on getting to When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore. I'm also hoping to get to Willa of the Wood by Robert Beatty. Truthfully I've got a pile of riches from the library and I want to read all of them!

PROGRESS ON MY READING GOALS

It seems that I am making headway here! I might even accomplish my goals this year, and early to boot!

#MustReadIn2018 23/25

#MustReadNFIn2018 11/12

25 Books by Canadian Indigenous Authors 22/25 1 in progress

Goodreads Reading Challenge 385/333

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