Episode 8 – It’s hard to make Kobos look cute

This week the girls talk about Taylor Jenkins Reid’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo–about frienships and soulmates, true love, casual inclusion, public entitlement to celebrities, etc. Read this book, we loved it!

What we are reading this week:

• The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
• All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
• Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill
• He Will Be My Ruin by K. A. Tucker
• Ten Tiny Breaths by K. A. Tucker
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Book News:

• Harry Potter in Scots translation
• Rupi Kaur announces second book of poetry: the sun and her flowers 
• Audree Archambault leaves books in Montreal subway
• Over 4,000 items returned to Montreal libraries during late fee amnesty 
• Lucy Maud Montgomery complete journals coming
• Emma Watson interviews Margaret Atwood

 

 

Episode 7 – The Book was Better: Big Little Lies

This week the girls tackle our second segment of The Book Was Better! We discuss Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies and the HBO’s adaptation of the same name.

What we are reading this week:

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
• Until it Fades by K. A. Tucker
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• Forever Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Too Much and Not The Mood  by Durga Chew-Bose
• Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

Book News:

• Happy 20th birthday Harry Potter!
• Nobody wants to be in the Harry Potter House Hufflepuff
• New John Green novel 
• Kobo Emerging Writer’s Prize announced

Episode 6 – Not Putting our Foots in our Mouths

This weeks the girls discuss unpopular book opinions, in response to some unpopular opinions in the Canadian publishing scene surrounding issues of appropriation. We’re not getting political, but also not ignoring the realities of the industry!

What we are reading this week month:

• Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
• Shrill by Lindy West
• So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
• The Illegal by Lawrence Hill
• The Arrangement by Sarah Dunn
• The Circle by Dave Eggars
• The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
• Why Not Me by Mindy Kaling
• Come Sundown by Nora Roberts
• The Wedding Girl by Madeleine Wickham
• When You Find Out the World is Against You by Kelly Oxford
• Everything is Perfect When You’re a Liar by Kelly Oxford
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
• Notes from a Feminist Killjoy by Erin Wunker
• A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett

Book News

• Anniversary editions of Harry Potter series
• Fan produced Voldemort film   
• Jordan Abel wins Griffin Poetry Prize 
• Emerging Indigenous Voices’ Award
• Zoe Whittall book deal with HarperCollins

 

Episode 5 – Oh Peggy

This week the girls read Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and watched the first episode of the new Hulu series based on the book. We discuss!

What we are reading this week:

• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Arrangement by Sarah Dunn
• Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

Hunter’s creepy book cover:

More The Handmaid’s Tale 

• The Outline website
  • The Red Center Podcast

Book News

• Free Comic Book Day!  May 6, 2017
• Pongapalooza May 16, 2017
• Pottermore launches Wizarding World Book club!
• Senate’s The Wise Owls published to explain role of Red Chamber

 

 

Episode 4 – David Sedaris Was Not My First

This week the girls talk about the ins and outs of their reading practice–where, what, how, and when. Where’s the weirdest place you like to read?

What we are reading this week:

• Durga Chew-Bose’s Too Much And Not the Mood 
• Jay Asher’s Thirteen Reasons Why
• Jessica Shattuck’s The Women in the Castle 
• Megan Miranda’s All The Missing Girls 
• Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

Other books we mentioned:

• J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• David Sedaris’ Me Talk Pretty One Day
• George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set  
• Jasper Fforde’s Shades of Grey 
• David Grann’s The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon 
• Liz Tuccillo’s How to Be Single 
• Jennifer Closes’ Girls in White Dresses 
• Richard Adams’ Watership Down 

Books in the News:

• Jude Law cast as young Dumbledore
  • https://www.pottermore.com/news/jude-law-cast-as-albus-dumbledore-in-next-fantastic-beasts-film
• Zoe Whittall’s The Best Kind of People to be adapted for film by Sarah Polley
  • http://www.cbc.ca/books/2017/04/sarah-polley-writing-and-directing-adaptation-of-zoe-whittalls-the-best-kind-of-people.html
• Shortlist of Griffin Poetry prize announced, hurray for Jordan Abel
  • http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/awards-and-poets/shortlists/2017-shortlist/jordan-abel/
• Authors for Indies, April 29!
  • https://www.authorsforindies.com/

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