Day four… another lovely week comes to an end; celebrating books and Canadian literature. Congrats to Loghan Paylor’s novel, The Cure For Drowning, and beautifully championed by Tegan Quin. Until next year - Read on, Canada!
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Day three… love all around, and both excellent books left - big finale tomorrow!
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Ha, precisely! 🙈
Not a bad thing! 😜
Day two… got a bit heated, but all good! 😅 (Still looking for a CBC coffee mug; if anyone has a contact?)
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Totally! 😉
First book out, but many people’s favourite…!
I thought the same!
Thanks so much! 🧡
(You know it’s a Monday when there’s afternoon coffee involved…)
Enjoying Even the Good Girls Will Cry; Melissa Auf der Maur’s heartfelt memoir, paired with my Montréal coffee mug - a perfect match, for a local icon.
#CoffeeAndCurrentlyReading
#MugMonday
#MemoirMonday
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Day one… my top book was voted off, but awesome panelists again this year! Anyone know; where to get that black coffee mug, with CBC logo? ☕️
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Watched splashdown with my son and for a very brief moment had hope for humanity.
Woohoo! Which one are you rooting for?
“When I ask myself, how a person should live, this is the advice I now turned to: Learn to branch out like a tree, to let go like a tree, to weather hardship like a tree, to rise above like a tree, to set down roots like a tree.”
~Robert Moor, In Trees
#NatureWriting
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Who’s excited for Monday? Vote for your favourite Canada Reads 2026 book; if a five-way tie, survey will decide…
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Canada Reads gets underway in ONE WEEK! I'm so jazzed to be helping out the CBC Books team for this year's battle of the books. Here's a look at the books and the champions. #CanadaReads
“Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, the seismic family saga you couldn’t avoid in the early aughts, is finally getting a screen adaptation.”
#FirstLineFriday
“The twins departed this world with a cry, much in the way they came into it.”
~Jiyoung Han, Honey in the Wound
Historical fiction meets magical realism, poetic and graceful.
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The International Booker Prize 2026 shortlist: The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar, translated from German by Ruth Martin She Who Remains by Rene Karabash, translated from Bulgarian by Izidora Angel The Director by Daniel Kehlmann, translated from German by Ross Benjamin On Earth As It Is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia, translated from Portuguese by Padma Viswanathan The Witch by Marie NDiaye, translated from French by Jordan Stump Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King
Presenting the shortlist for the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies.
Find out more about the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2026
Another mini haul today… because these five novels look fabulous, and irresistible.
#BookMailMonday
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“The train was
rocking through
wide open country
before Elsa was able to
put off the misery of leaving
and reach out for the freedom
and release that were hers now.”
~Wallace Stegner, The Big Rock Candy Mountain
#FirstLineFriday
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This is how I pulled out of being tensed up & angry this morning. Maybe it’ll help pals too, even only as a video.
“A novel is an invitation into another’s consciousness—a slippery place where emotions can have a piercing familiarity or feel so alien that you suspect you may have discovered a new species of human.”
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The 2026 #WomensPrize for Non-Fiction shortlist.
How many have you read so far?
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We got this! 😉
Monday… ☕️
#NotBeforeMyCoffee
#CoffeeMugOfTheDay
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My Friends, by Hisham Matar… I read Martyr around the same time, and enjoyed both - probably why one now reminds me of the other!
I can’t wait!
Latest episode of CBC’s The Next Chapter… Actor and Canada Reads panellist Josh Dela Cruz on defending Iain Reid’s novel, Foe.
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