Episodes
2 days ago
2 days ago
Rebecca and Tara chat with CBC's Canada Reads host Ali Hassan about the 2024 debates! Ali's website includes information about his stand-up comedy, public events, acting, memoir, hosting, podcasts, etc. He may be the busiest man in Canada!
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
https://allpoetry.com/Do-Not-Ask-My-Love
Prairie Edge by Conor Kerr:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/prairie-edge
Monday Mar 11, 2024
CBC's 2024 Canada Reads Wrap Up with Sarah
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Rebecca chats with the podcast's good friend Sarah from Nova Scotia to find out what she thought of the 2024 Canada Reads debate.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sareshears/
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
CBC's 2024 Canada Reads DAY THREE Wrap Up
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Rebecca and Tara discuss CBC's 2024 Canada Reads DAY THREE!
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Rebecca and Tara will be doing a live YouTube Wrap Up on DAY FOUR (3/7/24) with Jolene at 2:00 pm ET: https://www.youtube.com/@canadareadsamericanstyle/streams
Connect with Jolene on YouTube:
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
CBC's 2024 Canada Reads DAY TWO Wrap Up
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Rebecca and Tara discuss CBC's 2024 Canada Reads DAY TWO!
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
https://www.johnkingbooksdetroit.com/
Rebecca and Tara will be doing a live YouTube Wrap Up on DAY FOUR (3/7/24) with Jolene at 2:00 pm ET: https://www.youtube.com/@canadareadsamericanstyle/streams
Connect with Jolene on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@BookwormAdventureGirl
Monday Mar 04, 2024
CBC's 2024 Canada Reads DAY ONE Wrap Up
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Rebecca and Tara discuss CBC's 2024 Canada Reads DAY ONE!
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Rebecca and Tara will be doing a live YouTube Wrap Up on DAY FOUR (3/7/24) with Jolene at 2:00 pm ET: https://www.youtube.com/@canadareadsamericanstyle/streams
Connect with Jolene on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@BookwormAdventureGirl
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Love It - Hate It
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Rebecca and Tara ask the question: Why are we able to talk about a book for 30 minutes that we didn't like and yet struggle to articulate clearly what we loved about a five-star read?
Books discussed:
- The Meaning of Leaving by Kate Rogers
- Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
- The Double Life of Benson Yu by Kevin Chong
- Road Ends by Mary Lawson
- Greenwood by Michael Christie
Saturday Feb 24, 2024
Book Chat #15
Saturday Feb 24, 2024
Saturday Feb 24, 2024
Rebecca and Tara share what they are currently reading and their latest reading recommendations!
Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):
- Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries by Julia Spencer-Fleming
- Fifteen Thousand Pieces by Gina Leola Woolsey
- Amelia & Me #1; Under Amelia's Wing #2; Beyond Amelia #3: (Ginny Ross Series) by Heather Stemp
- Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele
Tara (@onabranchreads):
- The Song of Achilles; Circe by Madeline Miller
- https://www.cardcarryingshop.com/
- Who's Afraid of Gender by Judith Butler
- Love and Rain by Carmela Circelli
- Leaving Earth by Helen Humphreys
- Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
- Denison Avenue by Christina Wong, Daniel Innes
- Shut Up You're Pretty by Téa Mutonji
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Interview - Garnett Kilberg Cohen and Cravings
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Rebecca chats with award-winning author Garnett Kilberg Cohen, the author of four short story collections: Cravings (October 2023); Lost Women, Banished Souls; How We Move the Air; and Swarm to Glory. Her chapbook, Passion Tour, was published by Finishing Line Press.
Garnett's writing has appeared in The New Yorker online, Rumpus, The Gettysburg Review, Witness, The Literary Review, StoryQuarterly, The Antioch Review and elsewhere.
https://garnettcohenauthor.com/
Short Stories and Author Recommendations:
- Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro
- Lauren Groff
- Edna O'Brien
- Edwidge Danticat
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
Black History Month
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
Rebecca and Tara celebrate Black History Month with their picks and TBR!
Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):
- Fifteen Thousand Pieces by Gina Leola Woolsey
- Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance by Alvin Hall
- The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning by Ben Raines
- South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
- Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot
- Lies About Black People: How to Combat Racist Stereotypes and Why it Matters by Omekongo Dibinga
- Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall; illustrated by Hugo Martínez
Tara (@onabranchreads)
- Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice
- https://edenmillswritersfestival.ca/moon-of-the-turning-leaves/
- In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas
- Dread Nation; Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland
- James; The Trees by Percival Everett
- The African Samurai by Craig Shreve
- Frying Plantain; River Mumma by Zalika Reid-Benta
- George and Rue by George Elliott Clarke
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Interview - Gina Leola Woolsey and Fifteen Thousand Pieces
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Tara interviews Gina Leola Woolsey, author of Fifteen Thousand Pieces: A Medical Examiner's Journey Through Disaster, a nonfiction account of Dr. John Butt who was Chief Medical Examiner at the time of the Swissair plane crash off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1998.
Gina left her corporate career mid-life to pursue an education in creative writing, earning a BFA from the University of British Columbia and a MFA from the University of King's College. She splits her time between small-town Alberta, downtown Montreal, and her hometown of Vancouver. Gina won the 2010-2011 CBC Nonfiction Prize for My Best Friend, a decades-panning tale that offers a glimpse into her relationship with her troubled brother, from the innocence of their difficult childhood to his adult addictions.
Website: https://www.ginaleolawoolsey.com/
Instagram: @ginaleola
Gina's Recommended Reading List & Current Reads:
- Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra
- The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Famished Road by Ben Okri
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
- The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World's Favorite Insect by Wendy Williams
- The Family Code by Wayne Ng
- Short Stories for a Long Winter by Yasmin Ahmed
- Vignettes by Josip Novakovich
Friday Jan 19, 2024
Book Chat #14
Friday Jan 19, 2024
Friday Jan 19, 2024
Rebecca and Tara chat about what they are reading and what they've recently read!
(Side note: Rebecca said "palatable" but meant "palpable". Ha!)
Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):
- Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
- In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Mosionier
- The Future by Catherine Leroux; translated by Susan Ouriou
- Denison Avenue by Christina Wong and Daniel Innes
- Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine
Tara (@onabranchreads):
- Leaving Earth by Helen Humphreys
- Imagining Imagining: Essays on Language, Identity and Infinity by Gary Barwin
- The Winter Knight by Jes Battis
- Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
Thursday Jan 11, 2024
2024 CBC’s Canada Reads Short List
Thursday Jan 11, 2024
Thursday Jan 11, 2024
Rebecca and Tara are thrilled to discuss the CBC's Canada Reads Short List!
- Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
- Denison Avenue by Christina Wong & Daniel Innes
- Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
- Shut Up You're Pretty by Téa Mutonji
- The Future by Catherine Leroux, translated by Susan Ouriou
Rebecca: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Tara: @onabranchreads
Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
2024 Goals
Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
Happy New Year! Rebecca and Tara review their 2023 reading goals and set new challenges for 2024!
Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):
- Finding Edward by Sheila Murray
- The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (All-New Third Edition)
- Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America by Matika Wilbur
- 2024 Inclusive Picture Book Read Along Challenge by @readingwithredandthemagpie
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Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
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Rebecca - Daphne duMaurier
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Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
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The Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
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The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers
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Unless - Carol Shields
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Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay
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Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
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My Antonia - Willa Cather
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North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- The Street by Ann Petry
Tara (@onabranchreads):
- The Frozen Thames; And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life; Nocturne: On the Life and Death of My Brother by Helen Humphreys
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
2023 Wrap Up
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Rebecca and Tara wrap up their 2023 reading year! They also encourage you to follow @river_street_writes on Instagram if you're interested in CanLit, Canadian authors, and small Canadian presses.
Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):
- Denison Avenue by Christina Wong; illustrated by Daniel Innes
- Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine
- Skid Dogs by Emelia Symington-Fedy
- Cravings by Garnett Kilberg Cohen
- Where the Falcon Flies by Adam Shoalts
- Richard Wagamese
- Greenwood by Michael Christie
- Ted Kennedy: A Life by John A. Farrell
Tara (@onabranchreads):
- Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
- Peril in Pink by Sydney Leigh
- The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore
- Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades
- The Trees by Percival Everett
- The Echo Man; The Twenty by Sam Holland
- Message in a Bottle: Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist by Holly Hogan
- Fayne by Ann-Marie MacDonald
- Care Of: Letters, Connection and Cures by Ivan Coyote
- A History of Burning by Janika Oza
- The Boulevard by Jerrod Edson
- The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
2024 CBC’s Canada Reads Long List
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Rebecca and Tara are excited to discuss the 2024 Canada Reads Long List (before the New Year!) and predict the Short List contenders! Let the holiday book shopping begin!
https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-canada-reads-2024-longlist-is-here-1.7056323
Rebecca: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Tara: @onabranchreads