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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 May 25, 2020
Monday May 25, 2020
Shauna and Rebecca are honored to have journalist and non-fiction author Tanya Talaga on the podcast. While the subject matter of Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City, in which seven Indigenous youth die in Thunder Bay, Ontario over a 10-year period, is serious and sobering, the discussion is lively and ends on a hopeful note. Talaga also authored, All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward.
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Monday May 11, 2020
Monday May 11, 2020
Shauna and Rebecca are excited to welcome Cory Doctorow for a special (nearly) one hour podcast. Rebecca's questions are related to the four novellas in Radicalized, but you'll soon discover Cory's responses offer a wide-ranging, fascinating look at our current world.
2010 Publisher's Weekly Article:https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/cory-doctorow/article/44012-doctorow-s-first-law.html
EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation): https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/doctorows-law
Cory Doctorow
doctorow@craphound.com
Blog: https://pluralistic.net
Newsletter: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list
Upcoming appearances: https://craphound.com/?page_id=4667
Books: https://craphound.com
Podcast: https://feeds.feedburner.com/doctorow_podcast
Announcements list: https://mail.flarn.com/mailman/listinfo/doctorow-l
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Thursday Apr 30, 2020
Thursday Apr 30, 2020
Rebecca and Larissa discuss The Break by Katherena Vermette and both have the same question: why are Rain, Lou, and Flora the only characters in first person? As a natural segue, Larissa talks about the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada and recommends the following websites:
https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/
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Friday Apr 24, 2020
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Shauna and Rebecca are excited to chat with another guest reviewer, Sarah from Nova Scotia! Topics include CBC's Canada Reads 2020 contenders: Son of a Trickster, We Have Always Been Here, and first impressions of Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club. Besides being an avid reader, Sarah has her own YouTube Channel--Sarah Stitches.
Rebecca also mentions she researched past CBC's Canada Reads themes:
2012 True stories
2013 Turf wars
2014 A novel to change our nation
2015 One book to break barriers
2016 Starting over
2017 The book Canadians need now
2018 One book to open your eyes
2019 One book to move you
2020 One book to bring Canada into focus
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Saturday Apr 04, 2020
Saturday Apr 04, 2020
Despite the postponement of the CBC's Canada Reads 2020 competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Shauna and Rebecca offer their fifth and final review of the short listed titles.
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Join Shauna and Rebecca in their discussion of book #4 of CBC's Canada Reads 2020 competition, Son of a Trickster. Someone loves it and someone has a really shallow reason why she struggled at the beginning of the book.
They also mention Megan Gail Coles' accent, which you'll hear in this wonderful CBC Books interview with the five 2020 authors!
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/the-canada-reads-authors-answer-5-big-questions-1.5491222
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Shauna and Rebecca are excited to chat with Larissa, a Canadian, about her views on the five CBC's Canada Reads 2020 contenders. :) Will they all agree on the number of maple leafs??? Make sure to follow Larissa on Instagram @the.bookmom and Shauna and Rebecca @canadareadsamerican style.
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Wednesday Mar 04, 2020
Wednesday Mar 04, 2020
Shauna and Rebecca interview the heart and soul and humor of CBC's Canada Reads over the last four years, Ali Hassan. If you would like to know which book Ali would defend, tune in (Rebecca was fangirling)!
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Monday Mar 02, 2020
Monday Mar 02, 2020
Shauna and Rebecca agree on their book #3 of the CBC's Canada Reads 2020 shortlist. Do they love it? Do they hate it? Or are they somewhere in the middle? Stay tuned for a passionate discussion about Samra Habib's "Queer Muslim Memoir".
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Sunday Feb 23, 2020
Sunday Feb 23, 2020
Shauna and Rebecca review CBC's Canada Reads 2020 book #2. And if you've listened to their interview with Jesse Thistle and George Canyon, there are no surprises how many maple leafs they hand out. Their review does contain spoilers, so proceed with caution!
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Sunday Feb 16, 2020
Sunday Feb 16, 2020
Shauna and Rebecca score an amazing double interview! First up is Jesse Thistle, author of From the Ashes, a CBC's Canada Reads 2020 contender, followed by the defender of the book, George Canyon. Jesse talks about his words and his soulmate, while George discusses why From the Ashes is a book that all of Canada should read. AND Rebecca tells us, not once, but twice how she has chosen this book as the CBC's Canada Reads 2020 winner. ;P
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
Shauna and Rebecca shift their focus from CBC's Canada Reads authors to defenders and chat with Akil Augustine (14:50) who is defending Radicalized by Cory Doctorow! But first, they discuss how they would prepare for the competition.
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Sunday Feb 02, 2020
Sunday Feb 02, 2020
Shauna and Rebecca rate and review their first CBC's Canada Reads 2020 title, Radicalized by Cory Doctorow, defended by Akil Augustine. Spoiler alert: S & R go into specific detail about the four novellas.
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Wednesday Jan 29, 2020
Wednesday Jan 29, 2020
Shauna and Rebecca are honored to speak with Tima Kurdi, author of The Boy on the Beach, from her home in Vancouver. This is the book they felt should have been on the CBC's Canada Reads shortlist and won the 2019 competition for "one book to move you". Tima's book tells the story of the horrific plight of refugees--especially her brother's family which included her nephew Alan who was literally "the boy on the beach". Please join Shauna and Rebecca for this special interview.
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
Shauna and Rebecca review the CBC's Canada Reads 2020 shortlist titles and their defenders. Also, find out why Rebecca wins a free dinner from Shauna! GIVEAWAY ALERT: Follow their Instagram account @canadareadsamericanstyle to have a chance at winning a book from the shortlist!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/canada-reads-shortlist-panellists-1.5434913