Excellent piece for today's Rat Bag Lit. Practically a haiku, it's so short, but damn it's a powerful one.
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Beautiful hardcover edition of the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
Sprayed page edges are lovely, and special editions slap so hard. What are your favourites?
Mine right now is The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, sprayed deep green with seven golden wedding bands. (Image stolen from the evil A empire because my I lent my copy out.)
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A man’s hand holds a paperback copy of Daisy Jones & the Six, a book by Taylor Jenkins Reid, in front of a random collection of fridge magnets.
Starting book #95 for 2025: Daisy Jones & the Six. I enjoyed The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo so much I’m going in for another Taylor Jenkins Reid. Report forthcoming!
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Book #85 for 2025: Illuminations by Mary Sharratt, a fictionalized autobiography of Hildegard von Bingen, who overcame an impossibly difficult upbringing to become a 12th century composer, activist, and perhaps even a prophet.
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A copy of All the Colour in the World, by CS Richardson, sits on a marble counter top beside a whiskey sour.
Book #70 of 2025: All the Colour in the World by CS Richardson. Vignettes of an art historian who is promoted to enlist for duty in World War II when his wife is tragically killed in a car accident.
And a whisky sour.
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For Royals and Guardians, insert Liberals and Conservatives, or Democrats and Republicans, or Labour and Tories... Does the colour of the jacket really matter if you're left bleeding in the street?
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Hot take:
Farewell, My Lovely is a far superior novel to The Big Sleep.
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This skeet may just be the hottest thing I’ve read in 2025.
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Richard Wagamese was a wonderful writer. R.I.P., gone faaaaaaar too soon. #CanCon #ReadMoreBooks #ReadDammit
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A paperback copy of The Water Cure, a novel by Sophie Mackintosh, sits in a tree on a summer day.
Book #49 of 2025, #LiteraryFiction. What happens if Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale and Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi have a baby manuscript out of wedlock? The Water Cure by British novelist Sophie Mackintosh, that’s what.
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Okay seriously though, what’s the deal with hockey romance novels? Are any of them any good?
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If you moved from Muskville to BlueSky, consider ditching Bezos-owned GoodReads for the Black woman-owned app alternative: the StoryGraph.
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Hench, a novel by Natalie Zina Walschots. A deep red cover with a single bright red silhouette in the centre; the author’s name is in 20-point yellow type above a massive 200-point turquoise title word: HENCH.
The midsection of a man carrying a hardcover copy of Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots; he is wearing a bold burgundy shirt, and holding a book despite wearing a sling on his arm and a brace on his thumb.
Book #47 for 2025: Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots.
What if goodies were villainous, baddies heroic, and a spreadsheet nerd the superest of them all? If you wonder, “who’ll pay for the property damage?!?!” this is the book for you.
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Ocean Drive and Sunset & Jericho, two crime novels by Vancouver-based author Sam Wiebe.
Natural Born Heroes, Christopher McDougall’s non-fiction book about the Brits & Greeks who for months staved off Hitler’s attempt to take over the historically significant sliver of a Greek island known as Crete.
Blacksad, a wonderful Spanish-French detective noir graphic novel.
A History of Forgetting, a poignant novel of dementia, homophobia, loneliness, and both historical and personal remembrance, by Caroline Anderson.
A few recent reads.
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A lovely book. I enjoyed it very much.
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A bespectacled blonde man stares straight at you whilst sitting on a train, holding a paperback copy of The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer. The cover is bright blue with a large orange on the cover, a small squirrel in silhouette at bottom. The blonde man is ridiculously handsome, but ruffled in a polite Canadian way.
Book #23 of 2025: The Satsuma Complex by Robert Renwick Mortimer.
Talking squirrels. A cute lass with a hardline fringe. References to parsnips. This book has it all!
“The only thing that reminds me of James Corden is folded pizza.”
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A pocketbook version of Mordecai Richler’s 1968 novel Cocksure sits on a pale wooden table in front of a tinted coffee shop window. The cover is white with a blue and black painting of a London neighbourhood featured prominently.
Book #22 for 2025: brilliant, irreverent, clever, and vulgar, Mordecai Richler’s Cocksure. Not for the squeamish, but as it’s set in swingin’ 60s London I thought it was an apropos read for this trip.
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A copy of The End of the Alphabet by CS Richardson stands on a wooden tabletop. The cover is painted to look like a brown moleskine notebook with two camels standing abreast across the spine.
A copy of The End of the Alphabet by CS Richardson lies on a wooden tabletop beside a cup of takeaway coffee. The cover is painted to look like a brown moleskine notebook with two camels standing abreast across the spine.
Book #20 for 2025: The End of the Alphabet by CS Richardson. A lovely novella about one man’s clash with mortality. #BookSky #ReadMoreBooks #ReadDammit #CanCon #SupportCanadianArtists
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The ultra-CONs in Utah are banning books this year. In addition to the 13 in the graphic, they've also blacklisted:
"Like a Love Story" by Abdi Nazemian.
“Damsel” by Elana K. Arnold
“Empire of Storms” by Sarah J. Maas.
Sounds like recommended reading to me.
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I've read three of them so far. Didn't think much of Watch Out for Her at all. Jennie's Boy was okay but not spectacular. By far the one I've enjoyed the most so far is Etta and Otto and Russell and James. Wonderful characters, entertainingly written. #CanadaReads #ReadMoreBooks #ReadDammit #CanCon
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A copy of Michelle Good's novel, Five Little Indians, stands on a desk at a 30-degree angle to the camera, with the spine and front cover showing. The cover features the silver trunks of birch trees in the foreground on the left and right. A large blood moon hangs in a dark black sky, the words FIVE LITTLE INDIANS in stark, gritty contrast in all caps. The white, snowy lower half has five upside-down silhouettes marching in a queue across the centre of the book to represent the five main characters of this book. Michelle Good's name appears in red all caps at the bottom. The top of the cover features four stamps from awards the book has won since its original publication.
Book 16 for 2025, Five Little Indians by Michelle Good. Wow, what a powerful novel. An important read — complete deserves is accolades, including the 2022 edition of #CanadaReads. 9/10, I highly recommend it.
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Every time you check a book out of a library in Canada, writers, illustrators, photographers, and translators get compensation from the Canada Council for the Arts.
USE YOUR LIBRARY.
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The cover of the atrociously written Watch Out for Her by Samantha M Bailey. A slender woman in a yellow hoodie stands back to the camera with a dark, blurry outdoor background.
Whoever approved this manuscript is utterly inept at their job. Watch Out for Her is amateurishly written, with insufferable characters and a paper-thin plot. How did this unimaginative drivel even get published?
Woof, what an absolute dog of a book.
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A male left hand holds up a copy of David Bergen's novel Out of Mind with a green and orange abstract cover.
David Bergen's novel Out of Mind revisits the characters from his prize-winning book from 10+ years ago, The Matter with Morris. It's introspective, thoughtful, beautiful, and challenging. Great read. 4.25/5. #ReadDammit #ReadMoreBooks #CanCon #BookSky
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Sadly no such sale north of the border — I’d love to blame El Cheeto but this has been happening to Canadian readers for decades — but I can wholly recommend Pargin as a writer.
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The cover of Death at the Savoy, a pocketbook paperback novel: a blue building facade with each of six windows featuring a simple drawing of the main characters: 1. A man kisses a woman’s wrist. 2. A bottle of champagne pours into an eagerly held flute. 3. A man sits and smokes under the shadow of an ominous steak knife. 4. A woman looks over her shoulder in an evening gown. 5. A young woman in a short skirt looks out the window in shock. 6. A gun is pointed menacingly across the room.
Suuuuuper light murder mystery set in the late 60s at the Savoy Hotel in London. There’s violence (but not too gory), sex (but not too graphic), & paper-thin characters plied with Noël Coward’s prodigious bar tab.
3 out of 5.
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Ooh I want to read this as well.
Right now I’m in the middle of Death at the Savoy by Ron Base & Prudence Emery. It’s a very light whodunnit, but I make no excuses. After a couple of VERY heavy books I needed something easy & breezy.
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Morning, Hunt.
No truer words. #resistance 👊 #Readdammit 😎 #Contrarian
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If a person were so inclined to dig into Terry Pratchett for the first time, which ought they read first?
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The bright yellow cover of Cobra Clutch by A.J.Devlin, featuring green line art of two muscly men wrasslin’ and orange line art of - wait for it - a cobra poised to strike.
Book #1 for 2025, Cobra Clutch by AJ Devlin, about a Vancouver-based wrestler turned reluctant detective who investigates the murder of a friend.
“Some asshole kidnapped my snake.”
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