My June Reading, 2023

Some of the books I read in June. Click through to read what I thought about these and about a few additional titles as well. Be sure to check back on the conversation that so often evolves here among readers (and makes my TBR list delightfully and impossibly long!)

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Five Things Friday . . . Whoops! Make that Six Things Saturday!

1. Vancouver Mural Festival winds up this weekend, with 60 murals added in 11 neighbourhoods around the city. On a walk last week, I spotted artist Dimitri Sirenko taking a short break from his work…

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Rounding Up the Summer Reading — August Is Over!

 We’re in the last third of this challenging year,  a year in which my reading has oscillated between indulging my need to escape and fulfilling my need to understand the challenges we face. August brought…

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Lawrence Hill’s The Illegal . . . A Fast Runner, a Fast Read. . .

I’ve got to find ways to keep this blog current — it’s a project of my heart, really, yet it generally plays a weak second fiddle to my main blog. Or to reading itself. After…

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January Reading

In January last year, I wrote that I wanted to write here more regularly, and that I thought a way to do that would be to post as I was reading a book rather than…

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