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Two friends -- one American, one Canadian -- who share a love for CBC’s Canada Reads and Canadian literature! https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
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Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Shauna and Rebecca are excited to chat with author Marcello Di Cintio regarding his most recent book, Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Life in Contemporary Palestine, which is a non-fiction account of Palestinian life through the words of the poets and authors who experience beauty and grace in a landscape known to most of us for its wars and crisis.
Link to Duke Franklin Humanities Institute presentation: https://youtu.be/KYPjKtugLZc
Additional Palestinian authors discussed: Tala Abu Rahmeh, Hala Alyan, Mazen Maarouf, Mourid Barghouti.
Sunday Jan 10, 2021
Sunday Jan 10, 2021
Once again Shauna and Rebecca take a shot at trying to predict which of the CBC's Canada Reads 2021 longlist titles will be selected for the competition, which begins March 8, but, not surprisingly, they each pick a different set of five. Which ones do you think make the cut?
Friday Jan 01, 2021
Friday Jan 01, 2021
Shauna and Rebecca each share their Top 5 best reads of 2020, which include titles written by non-Canadians. No hints, no tags...just play along and see if you can guess any of the titles on their list!
And HAPPY NEW YEAR! Let us hope that 2021 makes us proud!
Tuesday Dec 29, 2020
Tuesday Dec 29, 2020
Shauna and Rebecca close out their Love & Laughter series with Son of a Critch: a Childish Newfoundland Memoir, a book that definitely made both of them laugh out loud! Shauna listened to the audio edition, while Rebecca read the book in print--either way, they guarantee you will love Mark Critch's memoir!
Monday Dec 07, 2020
Monday Dec 07, 2020
Join Shauna and Rebecca as they interview Beautiful Words Book Club representatives Deanna and Kate! The Beautiful Words Book Club created guided questions to help you think about those beautiful words that you are reading. They have several themes: general fiction, summer reads, professional nonfiction, and even one for children!
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Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
Shauna and Rebecca discuss the first humorous book in their Love & Laughter series, but is the book humorous?? Will Shauna accept Rebecca's apology for selecting a book about chickens? Thanks to Bookstagram's @wearebeautifulwords, a women's book club out of Windsor, ON, for providing the questions for the review from their new bookmarks. These fabulous bookmarks are for sale at wearebeautifulwords.ca. Stay tuned for an upcoming podcast with Kate and Deanna to learn more about their new business venture!
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Shauna and Rebecca are excited to interview first-time novelist, Maria Cichosz, regarding her queer love story, Cam & Beau. It is a uniquely compelling, intelligent story about two men who love one another but are afraid to risk losing their long-term friendship. This is literary fiction at its finest, and Rebecca cannot wait for the sequel, Middlemen, to be published! Follow Maria on Bookstagram @maria_tripps and check out Cam & Beau at https://camandbeau.ca
Thursday Nov 05, 2020
Thursday Nov 05, 2020
Shauna and Rebecca review the second book in their Love & Laughter series, The Switch by Canadian author Lynsay Sands. Shauna loved the humor and atypical ending, while Rebecca felt it was a formulaic romance. Spoiler alert: the two describe full details about the story from beginning to end.
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Award-winning author Wayne Arthurson join Shauna and Rebecca and other Bookstagram friends for a lively discussion about The Red Chesterfield and the Leo Desroches mystery series. The women try to draw out answers on some of the red herrings in The Red Chesterfield, but Wayne remains resolute that it is up to each reader to decide. This is why it is such a great read--so much to discuss!
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Shauna and Rebecca are happy to have Tara (@onabranchknitsandread) from Ontario join them to discuss the first book in their Love & Laughter series. Shauna and Tara offer up their own questions, while Rebecca cheats and uses the ones at the end of the e-book. How many maple leafs will each one assign to Ayesha at Last?
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Join Shauna and Rebecca for a lighter fall season--a season of Love & Laughter! They will be reading and discussing the following:
September -- Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
October -- The Switch by Lynsay Sands
November -- The Woefield Poultry Collective by Susan Juby
December -- Son of a Critch by Mark Critch (apologies to Mark Critch for Rebecca twice calling him Bill Critch!)
Leacock Medal for the best in Canadian Literary Humour: https://www.leacock.ca/
Rebecca also highly recommends that everyone read Parts by Tedd Arnold for the best laugh of 2020. Yes, the bar is low this year, but the laughs are a guarantee high!!
https://www.uzmajalaluddin.com/
Instagram: @critchmark
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/books/parts-by-tedd-arnold/
Monday Aug 24, 2020
Monday Aug 24, 2020
Shauna and Rebecca review the quirky, weird, and humorous award-winning novella, The Red Chesterfield by Wayne Arthurson. Rebecca points out her favorite red herring, while Shauna raises one that stops Rebecca in her tracks! Spoiler alert--they both divulge specific details of the story, so listener beware!
Monday Aug 17, 2020
Monday Aug 17, 2020
Shauna and Rebecca are excited to chat with Wayne Arthurson about his quirky, award-winning novella, The Red Chesterfield. Rebecca then gushes about his Leo Desroches mystery series and hopes that everyone rushes out to read the three-book series (Fall from Grace, A Killing Winter, Blood Red Summer) so that the final "spring" book will come to fruition!
Follow Wayne on Instagram - @waynethurson
Friday Jul 31, 2020
Friday Jul 31, 2020
Shauna and Rebecca close out CBC's Canada Reads 2020 with their perspective of the competition. Was it really female vs. male? Was there a secret alliance? Could we all have behaved better? Join them for a no-holds-barred chat.
In the second half of the podcast, Shauna and Rebecca introduce their project to close out 2020 with "Giggles & Kisses"! They plan to read two romances (Rebecca says, "ugh!" and Shauna is excited to get the chance to critically review her genre) and two humorous books (three of the four titles are identified). They hope you will read along and join them for a monthly review from September through December.
Update and correction: the series has been renamed "Love & Laughter" and Ayesha at Last's main character is Ayesha Shamsi but was written by Uzma Jalaluddin.
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Thursday Jul 30, 2020
Thursday Jul 30, 2020
Ali Hassan, host of CBC's Canada Reads 2020 competition joins us for some insider discussion on what happens during the show!
Ali Hassan
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Canada Reads American Style
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Jolene
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Larissa
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Sarah
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