I read this one a couple years back as part of my research for my memoir of #concussion: The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain by Dr. Haider Warraich #booksky #braintrauma #braininjury #chronicpain

Recently read this book: Impact: Women Writing After Concussion, an anthology of Canadian writers edited by ED Morin and Jane Cawthorne #booksky #concussion #braintrauma #braininjury

Currently reading Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery by Annie Liontas. Excellent. I highly recommend it. #booksky #concussion #braininjury #braintrauma

Do you love reading #creativenonfiction? Looking for new #Canadianauthors? Check out my blog at lynnemelcombe.com, where I review a book by a Canadian CNF author every week.

This week: #AdellePurdham's I Don't Do Disability and Other Lies I've Told Myself.

#booksky #disability #DownSyndrome

We all know them, but how often do we think about them? In The Worst Songs in the World, author David Pate looks at anthems around the world and finds them violent, racist, sexist tunes that do more to divide people than unite them. 

Check out my review: lynnemelcombe.com

And happy Canada Day!

This week's book review is a departure from my CNF fare: a YA novel by Richard Levangie. Richard was a member of the class of 2015, and like him many members of the program have gone on to successes we didn't dream of at the time. #booksky #YAfiction #Canadianwriters

Committed to reading Canadian? A fan of creative nonfiction? Check out my blog for a fascinating collection of reviews of CNF books by Canadian authors on every subject you can imagine. lnkd.in/gaZQXJd4 Happy reading!

This week's book review is about Helena Moncrieff's book The Fruitful City lnkd.in/dUhEBSpw which connects homeowners with underused fruit trees with fruit-picking volunteers with people who need food security, while decreasing food waste, improving sustainability, and reducing food illiteracy.

Another great Canadian creative nonfiction read, Chasing Smoke is a memoir of firefighting that tells what it's really like to be in a massive fire while sharing the humour that keeps people going in extreme situations. An excellent read!

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Catherine Fogarty explores the deadly Kingston Penitentiary Riot and what we have or haven't learned about human rights and prison reform in Canada. A page-turning piece of historical crime nonfiction.

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Next on my journey through books by grads of the UKing's MFA in Creative Nonfiction "How to Clean a Fish and Other Adventures in Portugal," a wonderful travelogue about going back to Esmeralda Cabral's childhood home and reliving memories with a lot of great food.
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Here's mine.