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Mendalla said:
Marten's own relationship with Claire seems to be ticking along nicely. They are living together now but not talking nuptials yet. She's major stressed out as she does her final set of exams before graduating with a library science degree (yay!).
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I am still reading QC. It runs daily on weekdays but publishes the night before so really runs Sun-Thurs. Right now, Marten and Claire are in a weird AI thinktank that wants to hire Claire as their CIO (Chief Information Officer) even though she is fresh out of library school. After a turbulent start to her visit, a meeting with the place's weird director (an AI in a jellyfish-like body) seems to have mollified Claire and she might actually be taking the job. However, Jacques has now skipped back to look at what Faye and Bubbles are up to in their absence. Dora and Tai's wedding seems to have fallen off the radar, which worries me a little. Jacques does have a bad habit of losing interest in characters and plot threads such that they just vanish unresolved.

FYI, the thinktank is located in Nova Scotia, on a former oil rig offshore from Halifax. Jacques is American but for reasons I am not clear on, presently lives in Nova Scotia, hence the choice of setting.
 
Mendalla said:
I am still reading QC. It runs daily on weekdays but publishes the night before so really runs Sun-Thurs. Right now, Marten and Claire are in a weird AI thinktank that wants to hire Claire as their CIO (Chief Information Officer) even though she is fresh out of library school. After a turbulent start to her visit, a meeting with the place's weird director (an AI in a jellyfish-like body) seems to have mollified Claire and she might actually be taking the job. However, Jacques has now skipped back to look at what Faye and Bubbles are up to in their absence. Dora and Tai's wedding seems to have fallen off the radar, which worries me a little. Jacques does have a bad habit of losing interest in characters and plot threads such that they just vanish unresolved.

FYI, the thinktank is located in Nova Scotia, on a former oil rig offshore from Halifax. Jacques is American but for reasons I am not clear on, presently lives in Nova Scotia, hence the choice of setting.
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Allows for the drill as laid out ... then Kathy Bates did a movie on burying an abusive man in a well ... a deep presentation! There's more to it than apparant in the aspect ... far perspect? That's objective compared to those many subjectives that can't get beyond themselves and feel no such thing is possible except for alien essences ... the part within that ye do not have any familiarity with? So it departs ... as is reiterated in the Tennesee Waltz ... a strange tattoo? May be meta 4's ... like literature itself carrying a strange device within ... das ole in some traditions that is declared Ba OHM bugs in some insects ... beyond the masses ... make it clear so they don't see it! Thus Claire arrived as nebulous thing requiring phosphoressence ... weird light!

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Nice to see some fantasy on there at least. I have read Guy Gavriel Kay but not that specific one. And Silvia Moreno-Garcia has been on my radar but have not partaken yet (she writes Gothic dark fantasy/horror with a Mexican backdrop).
 
Really nice breadth of genres there. I've put all but one of them on hold via CloudLibrary (Hotline doesn't seem to be available via that route).

Looking forward to this, as always!
 
If you word things adequately for appearance sake ... no one will understand as that appears toby the object!

Thus Ra comes to earth to be darkened and smeared ... leaves in an ink ling ...
 
So far, the CBC Canada Reads long list is GREAT. I've finished three books that didn't make the short list, and I'm working on #4 and #5 concurrently, both of which did (the #numbering is totally random, in that it's in the order I've been acquiring them via holds):

Finished:

#1 Revery by Jenna Butler, autobiographical, contemporary Prairie apiarist, and a woman of colour. Short, well-written, very informative.
#2 Moon of the Crusted Snow, by Waubgeshig Rice. Very good. Dystopian indigenous novel. Action-packed, startling, gentle in spots.
#3 Blood Scion, by Deborah Falaye. Fantasy, very violent (focus is on 15 year old child soldier conscripts), but I loved it because the protagonist is such a well-rounded character. Ends a bit poorly and confusingly, though, as if she had too many buried plot twists and felt compelled to tie them all up in a couple of chapters.

In Process:

#4 Mexican Gothic; I've been reading it to the Big Guy before bed, and it's due today, so when we'll get back to it, don't know. Very introspective and slow thus far.
#5 Greenwood, by Michael Christie. Thus far, excellent. Dystopian, "when the trees are almost all gone", quite long, but well- and entertainingly-written. Really enjoying it thus far.

This is where the reading gets confusing. Because I have 11 books either on my bookshelf or on hold. And "on hold" will increasingly mean "again", which means that the mental game of where each book is at begins. The library app saves my place, but doesn't give me a "recap"...
 
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Stories in the Mardi Gras competition on Stories Space. I gave up after numerous false starts so am now reading the ones who did get something out.
 
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Stories in the Mardi Gras competition on Stories Space. I gave up after numerous false starts so am now reading the ones who did get something out.
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Maybe sometimes you have to sit back and look at what someone else wrote to get some re-inspiration?

And the final book on the Canada Reads short list, which doesn't appear to be appearing on the library site as a hold option, as have the other of, indeed, the long list of 15, has just been acquired on my Amazon account, which occasionally has a gift card on it, and does, at present. I also finally installed Kindle on my phone (only had the 'new' phone for a year or so), so I can read Amazon purchases as well as library books on it.
 
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Maybe sometimes you have to sit back and look at what someone else wrote to get some re-inspiration?
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Deadline is next Tuesday so it is getting a bit tight but, yeah, that's kind of my thinking. At the very least, I'll know what not to do to avoid stepping on toes. :D
 
I'm into escapist reading lately....lots of fiction, murder mysteries and the like. I just finished "Lessons in Chemistry". Okay, but not as great as its popularity would lead you to believe!
 
I rent a room to a young man from Egypt, hes been in Canada for 4 years...he knows I enjoy theology, and he came home with an English translated book of The Quran. He says it loses something in the translation...in his language he says the words sound like poetry, in ours, not so much.
So I will read it all eventually.
 
Did I say that I read Louise Penny's A world of Curiosities?

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I received it for Christmas.

It was done very well, in my opinion.
Quite enjoyed it.
Took a while to read, as I wanted to savour it, so would read a chapter or two, then set it down.
Wasn't sure who the bad guys were for a long time
 
Last night I started "Locked Rooms" which I think is the 7th or 8th in the Sherlock Holmes & Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King. Always intriguing.
 
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I went to a talk by this author a couple of weeks ago. I could have listened to her for hours. She tells a fascinating and hope-giving life story. She has accomplished so much in her career.
Also, she was very welcoming of questions, however awkward. She was asked about veils/hijabs for example, and was able to clarify some misinformation around that. The scarf she wears is just culturally Bedouin. No religious significance. The whole subject is far more complex than you might think.
So I just cracked this book and am carried along by the tale. She's a great storyteller as well as an amazing activist.
 
Update, never finished all of Canada Reads, even shortlist, totally, although my library hold list will eventually achieve this. It was as usual, hilarious, educational and entertaining, and while I disagree on the final decision, it was the usual great process.

However, have rediscovered a bit of a wyrd author, of Ishmael, the other Ishmael book and The STory of B. Author Daniel Quinn. Just finished his novel, "The Holy", and well, wyrd. Thoughtful. Wyrd. Apparently he has written other novels, and I'm strangely not sure whether to.

I'm currently reading Ishmael to the big guy as a bedtime story. I so agree/disagree with some of the premises, am so conflicted that none of us talk on this level, really.
 
I've downloaded the audiobook version of Five Little Indians by Michelle Good. It follows five people who were in the same Indian Residential School together in the 60's. I'm almost a quarter of the way through it and am really enjoying it. I recommend it for anyone who wants or needs to learn more about the blight of residential schools.
 
I am reading, "Truth Telling" by MIchelle Good. Seven conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada.
Author of 'Five Little Indians'.
Hard cover and decently large enough to read.
But just starting, so no comments yet.
 
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