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Book cover. The Big Payoff by Janice Law (Anna Peters E1 / 1975) Shows a woman's head, a hand holding a revolver, an oil well in the sea, the British flag

Book cover. Wycliffe and the Redhead by W.J. Burley (Inspector Wycliffe #21 / 1997) A railing on a road.

Book cover. Novels and Stories by Joanna Russ (Library of Congress edition / 2023)

Book cover. A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf (1953) Photo of Virginia Woolf on cover.

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Photo of Canadian author, Christina Wong. playwright and artist

Book cover. Denison Avenue by Christina Wong and Daniel Innes (2023) black & white pencil drawing of Toronto street scene and woman pushing a shopping cart.

💙📚25 Canadian Books
No particular order
Day 25/25
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#ChristinaWong

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors
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Day 17/20 Beverly Cleary
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After stumbling my way through Anne of Green Gables, a librarian introduced me to Beezus and Ramona, and The Mouse and the Motorcycle. Cleary cemented my fate to be a reader.

Book cover. Ducks, Two years in the Oil sands by Kate Beaton (2022) drawing of massive truck with woman on the stairs, set in Athabaska Oil Sands

Photo. Kate Beaton, born Nova Scotia (1983) Canadian comics artist.

💙📚25 Canadian Books
No particular order
Day 24/25
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#KateBeaton

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors
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Day 16/20 Emma Hooper
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Emma and Otto... was a Canada Reads finalist this year and that's how I discovered this brilliant author.

Photo of Canadian author Catherine Bush (head shot) Born in Toronto. Fiction

Book cover. Minus Time by Catherine Bush (1993), blue and white cover, includes photo of people observing a rocket launch.

💙📚25 Canadian Books
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Day 23/25
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#CatherineBush
#Fiction

Photo. Head shot of Michael Ignatieff, born 1947, Toronto Ontario, author, academic, politician

Book cover. Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff (1993) Photo of woman sitting, with young man kneeling in front of her, holding hands.

💙📚25 Canadian Books
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Day 22/25
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A white book cover with an open pink zipper mimicking the opening of a vagina. The words state, “THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THE VAGINA BIBLE: The vulva and the vagina - separating the myth from the medicine [by] Dr Jen Gunter”

A pink book cover with the title in large black caps, “THE MENOPAUSE MANIFESTO” Between the words menopause and manifesto is a white with red megaphone and a text bubble that says, “OWN YOUR HEALTH WITH FACTS AND FEMINISM” At the bottom in white letters it says “Dr. Jen Gunter” In black letters below it says, “New York Times bestselling author of THE VAGINA BIBLE”

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors
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Day 5/20 Dr Jen Gunter
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Her books are a must for your bookshelf. Read The Vagina Bible & the Menopause Manifesto. I haven’t read Blood yet.

Book cover. Seaweed on the Street by Stanley Evans (2005) black & white photo of man walking down an alley.

Photo. Canadian mystery author, Stanley Evans. Born England (1931), now resides in Victoria, BC.

💙📚25 Canadian Books
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Day 21/25
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Book cover: Left 2/3rds shows a snow capped mountain in pink golds and grays. The right dark red third states info about the book, the ARTISTS WAY, A Course in Discovering and Recovering your Creative Self by Julia Cameron.

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors
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Day 4/20 Julia Cameron
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I shared recently about “Morning Pages,” about writing 3 pages of brain dump before your brain turns on. I learned this from The Artists Way 20 years ago. Do it.

Book cover. The Downloaded by Robert J. Sawyer (2024). Cover shows city ruins, a man with his back to you and within him, a man and a woman holding hands.

Photo. Canadian author Robert J. Sawyer (head shot). Born Ottawa, Ontario 1960, Author of Sci-Fi.

💙📚25 Canadian Books
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Day 20/25
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Photo Ann Charney. Canadian author, born 1940, Poland

Book cover. Rousseau's Garden by Ann Charney (2001). Cover photo of lake with small sailboats on it and surrounded by trees.

💙📚25 Canadian Books
No particular order
Day 19/25
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#Fiction

Photo. Canadian author Phyllis Gotlieb sitting in front of bookshelves. Born Toronto 1926, died Toronto 2009, Sci Fi author and poet.

Bookcover. Sunburst by Phyllis Gotlieb (1964), Top is yellow, title in red print, odd creatures below.

💙📚25 Canadian Books
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Day 18/25
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Photo of Mordecai Richler from the '60s. Born Montreal, PQ 1931, died Montreal 2001. Author of fiction and also essays.

Book cover Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler (Penguin Ediiton / 1989) Lettering in gold, black cover with crow's head in the center.

💙📚25 Canadian Books
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Day 17/25
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Front cover of the book “Bad Feminist” Essays by Roxane Gay

Book cover of Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay, Author of the New York Times Bestseller Bad Feminist Image is a close up of the tongs of a fork and their shadow.

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors
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Day 3/20 Roxane Gay
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I know y’all usually post fiction, but I haven’t been on a fiction swing lately, so maybe you’ll check out Hunger or Bad Feminist

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors
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Day 15/20 Corrina Chong
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If you're a Donna Tartt fan you should check out Corrina Chong's work. She writes with similar dark undertones in rich engaging prose.

Book cover. Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry (2002) Picture of man from behind, looking out at the sea.

Photo of Rohinton Mistry, Indian - Canadian author. Born Bombay in 1952.

💙📚25 Canadian Books
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Day 16/25
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#RohintonMistry
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💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors
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Day 14/20 Anne Fleming
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I was lucky enough to do a 4th year novel writing class with Anne at UBC Okanagan. Curiosities was nominated for this year's Giller Prize

Book cover showing a bare shoulder and the back of someone’s head & neck. With the words, JEANETTE WINTERSON, Author of SEXING THE CHERRY and THE PASSION Written on the Body "Dazzling... delves into our most sacred desires.. Written on the Body elevates the novel to a new plane of inquiry about the nature of the human heart. *— San Francisco Chronicle”

A book cover with a young (4 or 5 year old) red headed girl standing on a beach holding a beach ball and wearing a blue bathing suit with the words, “A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? "Magnificent … a tour de force of literature and love - Vogue -Fierce, curious, brilliant." -0, the Oprah Magazine Jeanette Winterson author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

A book cover with a painting of dark angel and the words, “JEANETTE WINTERSON ART OBJECTS, Essays on ecstasy and effrontery”

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors
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Day 2/20 Jeanette Winterson
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I should reread Written on the Body. It’s been so long.

Photo of W. O. Mitchell, born Weyburn, Sask, 1914, died Calgary, Alberta, 1998. Author and broadcaster.

Book cover. Who Has Seen the Wind by W. O. Mitchell (1947), also a film starring Gordon Pinsent. Light brown cover, picture of small prairie town and various individuals.

💙📚25 Canadian Books
No particular order
Day 15/25
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#Canada
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#WOMitchell
#Fiction

Book cover for Bird by bird: Some Instructions on Writing by Anne Lamott with a bird in each corner

Book cover of NATIONAL BESTSELLER Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year by Anne Lamott Author of Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies With quotes “An enormous triumph. ... Charming.... Powerful. ... Funny." -San Francisco Chronicle The bottom of pairs of baby feet line the top and bottom of the cover

Photo of the front of a church, a green frame with a white sign with flowers below, and the following text “NATIONAL BESTSELLER ANNE LAMOTT TRAVELING MERCIES SOME THOUGHTS ON FAITH BY THE AUTHOR OF BIRD BY BIRD "Anne Lamott is walking proof that a person can be both reverent and irreverent in the same lifetime. Sometimes even in the same breath." -San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors
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Day 1/20 Anne Lamott
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I go back to Bird by Bird over and over and it’s always a gift to my writer friends

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors
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Day 13/20 Gil Adamson
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Read 1/3 of Ridgerunner not know it was a sequel to Outlander (completely different Gabaldon's timetraveler), stopped and read Outlander then finished. 5/5

Photo, Douglas Coupland, born CFB Baden Soellingen, Germany (1961). novelist, designer & visual artist.

Book cover. Player One, What is to Become of us by Douglas Coupland (2010) Photo of airplane window with a hand waving.

💙📚25 Canadian Books
No particular order
Day 14/25
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#DouglasCoupland
#SciFi

Photo. Margaret MacMillan, born Toronto, Ontario 1943. Historian, Professor Oxford University

Book cover. Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan (2007) Photo of World leaders attending peace conference after WWI

💙📚25 Canadian Books
No particular order
Day 12/25
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#History

Book cover. Five Little Indians by Michelle Good (2020) Drawing of silver birch trees, framing a night time sky with pink moon and shadows of 5 individuals walking

Photo of Michelle Good. Born 1956 in Kitimat, BC. Cree lawyer, author and poet. Winner of Governor General's award for long fiction for Five Little Indians.

💙📚25 Canadian Books
No particular order
Day 12/25
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Book cover. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985) Two handmaids walking along a high wall..

Photo of Margaret Atwood, born Ottawa(1939) novelist, essayist, literary critic, poet

💙📚25 Canadian Books
No particular order
Day 11/25
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#MargaretAtwood
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💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors
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Day 12/20 Alix Hawley
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Loved all three of them. All Truth Not A Lie and My Name is a Knife are about Daniel Boone. Brilliant writer!

Photo of Emily St. John Mandel, born 1979, Merville, British Columbia, novelist and essayist.

Book cover. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014) Cover shows night sky and a tented camp site in a sandy area behind a wall.

💙📚25 Canadian Books
No particular order
Day 10/25
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