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A journey through books and reading. Reviews, reading challenges, bookish recipes and crafts! Visit me at TrishTalksBooks.com and my Bookstagram page @trishtalksbooks
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I posted three collections that might be good for folks who want to start reading poetry.

Elemental by Kate Braid

People You Know, Places You've Been by Hana Shafi

body works by dennis cooley

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More suggestions? These are all CanLit 🇨🇦
May 1, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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What if the moon just suddenly turned into cheese? You'll have to read John Scalzi's #WhenTheMoonHitsYourEye to find out his take. I quite liked it! 📚💙 #booksky
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Review: www.instagram.com/p/DHoc7d2yLIQ/
March 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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"The novel’s language is rich, lush, meaty, bloody. It felt like reading a distillation of many of my fears, a mash-up of authoritarianism, climate disaster, patriarchy and theocracy. Not for the faint of heart." My review of #TheUnworthy by Bazterrica:
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#booksky 💙📚
March 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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I hosted an Anna Karenina readalong and blogged about each day's reading. I hope it can serve as a framework and some commentary for others who are interested in reading this Tolstoy tome. Feel free to check it out and pass it long!
#booksky 💙📚 #tolstoy
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Anna Karenina: Readalong!
Reading Tolstoy's  War and Peace three years ago was a revelation, because I'd always been intimidated by classic Russian literature, and...
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March 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Lynn Hutchinson Lee's ORIGINS OF DESIRE IN ORCHID FENS is finally up on Netgalley. Grab a copy of this dreamy, eerie, and poignant Canadian debut before the end of the month. It already has its first 5-star review!

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Screenshot of ORIGINS OF DESIRE IN ORCHID FENS Netgalley page on a background of wild orchids. The first 5-star review is superimposed over the screenshot. It reads: There are many different types of horror throughout this novella. There is the Romani diaspora; the revenge of the panni raklies, a group of water spirits who have been murdered; and the climate horror of the attack of the mine on the wetland. The story is told through lyrical, descriptive mini-chapters that bring life to the fens. 5 stars.
March 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Our latest #CanuckReads book club will be reading Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese and meeting to discuss (online) on March 29 at 11am PST. Visit my post for details. We read CanLit! #BookSky 📚💙
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February 27, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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#canlit poetry! "If you like your poetry shaken, not stirred, this may be the collection for you." My thoughts on "realia" by Saskatchewan poet Michael Trussler. #BookSky @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social @radiantpress.bsky.social
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February 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Dive into these new and recent books about Black history in Canada! And pro-tip – they're not just for you to read in February...every month is Black history month! 49thshelf.com/Lists/Member... #DiverseCanLit #BlackHistoryMonth #CanLit
Black History Month Picks for 2025 · Lists · 49th Shelf
Dive in to these new and recent books about Black History in Canada
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February 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Canada Reads is back! Join @jcyliew.bsky.social, author of the shortlisted novel Dandelion, and her champion Saïd M’Dahoma for a thought-provoking conversation on Monday, March 3, leading up to Canada Reads.

Tickets: https://buff.ly/4hUWRgp
February 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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It's my mid-winter Canadian produce haul! Amazing what you can find when you're seeking it out. I'll be exploring how I can change my eating habits and finding new recipes to eat more locally and Canadian. Small changes...😍 🇨🇦
#BuyCanadian
February 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Have you read Held, by Anne Michaels? I did, and it is amazing. What a beautiful meditation on love, loss, trauma and interconnectedness. Here's my Bookstagram reflection. #BookSky
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February 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Discover why THE JAGUAR MASK by Michael J. DeLuca made the 2024 Recommended Reading List - www.stelliform.press...
February 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Our #fridayreads pick is this sneak-peek excerpt of Peter Unwin's memoir PLAYING HARD, releasing next week from @cormorantbooks.bsky.social. Read on for a tender moment of wartime (and soccer) reminisces between father and son.

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The cover of Playing Hard: A Life and Death in Games, Sports and Play by Peter Unwin, featuring an archival photograph of two men playing soccer, with a crowd of spectators in the background. Beyond them, the roof of a large building is seen.
February 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Congrats to Jamie Chai Yun Liew (@jcyliew.bsky.social), whose debut novel, #Dandelion, has been shortlisted for #CanadaReads 2025! 🌼

Tune in March 17–20, 2025, to see pastry chef Saïd M’Dahoma, aka "The Pastry Nerd," champion the book.

👉 Read more: arsenalpulp.com/News/2025/Ja...
Jamie Chai Yun Liew, photographed by Kenya-Jade Pinto, and the cover of her book “Dandelion,” with a Canada Reads 2025 selection seal on it. Text reads: “Congratulations to Jamie Chai Yun Liew. ‘Dandelion,’ a Canada Reads 2025 finalist! Arsenal Pulp Press. arsenal pulp [dot] com” Canada Reads 2025 champions, including Säid M'Dhoma, champion of "Dandelion" by Jamie Chai Yun Liew, posing with their respective books. Photo courtesy of CBC. Text reads: “Canada Reads, March 17-20, 2025”
January 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Buy and read Canadian books. We make some of the best!
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February 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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I've posted my thoughts about a Canadian classic novel: Gabrielle Roy's The Tin Flute (1945), which set the stage for Quebec's 1960s Quiet Revolution. #canlit #readcanadian #BookSky 🇨🇦
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February 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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My review of Neal Shusterman's All Better Now is up on Bookstagram today. It's about a viral pandemic but if you survive, you're blissed out and want to do good. The rich and powerful don't love it, of course. All sorts of interesting questions arise. #BookSky
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February 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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SHADOWS OF TYRANNY - Ken McGoogan

Read the review at:
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#Shadowsoftyranny #KenMcGoogan #DouglasMcIntyre #TheSeaboardReview #TSR #canuckreads #canlit #readcanada #wwiireads #spanishcivilwarreads
January 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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February 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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After travelling to Japan this spring and searching out vegan and vegetarian food there, I was happy to cook from #VeganJapan by Julia Boucachard. It's out now from indie publisher The Experiment! Thanks to them and NetGalley for a copy.
My review and photos:
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December 9, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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Icymi, it's a great time to develop a sporror habit 🍄
sadiehartmann.bsky.social Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · Nov 30
More SPORROR 🍄 for you!
Girl in the Creek by @wnwagner.bsky.social
and The Bane Witch by Ava Morgyn 🍄 in 2025!
Bestial Mouths is poetry and was released this month. You Will Speak for the Dead is a new body horror fav! Booze made of 🍄from Molly Tanzer and A Botanical Daughter is queer sporror!
Bestial Mouths Girl in the Creek You Will Speak for the Dead A Boatanical Daughter The Bane Witch Creatures of Want & Ruin
December 3, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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Let's make a "notable small press books of 2024" list! Any genre, 2024 release, small/university/indie press.

I will start with two I loved
Nicole Haroutunian's CHOOSE THIS NOW (Noemi Press);
@janellebassett.bsky.social's THANKS FOR THIS RIOT (@univnebpress.bsky.social)

Please add yours & share!
November 27, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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#Novellavember Novella #1!

Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris, from @stelliform.press

🐸 Swampcore
🌿 Ominous fecundity
👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏼 Doomed sapphic relationship
🖤 The isolation of grief
🍄 Lichens & mosses & fungus, oh my!
💭 Lucid dreaming???
🖼️ Art as language
🔥 Indigenous climate fiction
Paperback copy of Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris on a weathered wooden surface. Cover image is the head and shoulders of a woman illustrated primarily in black and green, with pupil-less yellow eyes. Tendrils snake away from the woman's mouth.
November 2, 2024 at 3:12 AM
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I loved Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass. Now I've had the opportunity to read her essay on how the serviceberry teaches us about thoughtful human interactions with each other and the natural environment, through an Indigenous lens.
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November 15, 2024 at 6:35 PM