31.2K
Downloads
258
Episodes
Two friends -- one American, one Canadian -- who share a love for CBC’s Canada Reads and Canadian literature! https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Episodes
Saturday Jan 11, 2020
Saturday Jan 11, 2020
The CBC's Canada Reads 2020 longlist is finally here! https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/here-is-the-canada-reads-2020-longlist-1.5411178 Take a listen and tell us which books you would want to read off the list! Don't forget to check out our Instagram @canadareadsamericanstyle
Saturday Jan 04, 2020
Saturday Jan 04, 2020
Shauna and Rebecca kick off the Roaring 20s with a new plan!! Free flow and CTFD!! If any of our listeners would like to review a book by a Canadian author, let us know and we'll feature you on our podcast. UPDATE: Please listen to the follow up about bestiality around 20 minutes. Please! LOL
Saturday Jan 04, 2020
Saturday Jan 04, 2020
Shauna and Rebecca wrap up the whole 2019 kit and kaboodle that is CBC's Canada Reads. They also discuss their personal reading styles. Why did they wait so long?? :)
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Sunday Dec 22, 2019
Sunday Dec 22, 2019
Shauna discusses the overarching theme of This Accident of Being Lost, while Rebecca shares her tearful review of The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary. Join them for their final words on the last books of the CBC's Canada Reads 2019 longlist.
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Saturday Dec 21, 2019
Saturday Dec 21, 2019
Shauna and Rebecca close out the CBC's Canada Reads 2019 longlist with a collection of indigenous short stories, songs, and poems and a non-fiction account of the resiliency of chimpanzees.
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
Shauna and Rebecca invite you to read the final two books from the CBC's Canada Reads 2019 longlist to close out the year. The second is The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary by Andrew Westoll.
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
Shauna and Rebecca invite you to read the final two books from the 2019 CBC's Canada Reads longlist to close out the year. The first is This Accident of Being Lost by Leanne Simpson.
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Monday Dec 02, 2019
Monday Dec 02, 2019
Shauna and Rebecca read Life on the Ground Floor in chunks and straight through, respectively, but they both came to a similar conclusion.
Make sure to follow Dr. Maskalyk on his next journey writing his third book: http://www.jamesmaskalyk.com
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Saturday Nov 23, 2019
Saturday Nov 23, 2019
Dr. Maskalyk joins Shauna and Rebecca this week to discuss Life on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine. He also invites everyone to follow his blog as he chronicles his latest adventures and the writing of book number three. http://www.jamesmaskalyk.com
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Friday Nov 15, 2019
Friday Nov 15, 2019
Shauna and Rebecca talk about the finalists for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and how they view "lit-tra-chur". However, if you've read any of the shortlist titles and you want them to read and review, please make sure to comment below. https://www.cbc.ca/books/replay-the-2019-scotiabank-giller-prize-shortlist-announcement-1.5300852
Friday Nov 08, 2019
Friday Nov 08, 2019
Shauna kicks off the discussion to “engage” listeners, but Rebecca isn’t sure it will work as intended. You be the judge. :)
At the end, S & R ask, “What do you use as a bookmark?”
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Friday Nov 01, 2019
Friday Nov 01, 2019
While Life on the Ground Floor has been recognized with awards and making "best of" lists, Shauna and Rebecca both have different reasons why it might be a tough read for them.
Also, Justin Trudeau voted against his own book in CBC's Canada Reads in 2003!?! https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1463212611707
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
The $64K question: did The Crazy Game deserve to be on the 2019 CBC's Canada Reads longlist and shortlist? Is it a book that moved Shauna and Rebecca? You might be surprised by their point of view!
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Tuesday Oct 22, 2019
Tuesday Oct 22, 2019
Shauna and Rebecca are pleased to share an especially candid talk with Clint Malarchuk, author of The Crazy Game, which was a CBC's Canada Reads 2019 longlist title.
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads
Tuesday Oct 15, 2019
Tuesday Oct 15, 2019
Fall is a great time to settle in for a cozy read, so join Shauna and Rebecca as they review a CBC Books list of "30 books to read now". Will they agree on their top three selections? Will Rebecca gravitate towards a time travel romance? Will Shauna go all out for a social science read? Check it out! https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-cbc-books-fall-reading-list-30-books-to-read-now-1.5290084
Also, they mention the process by which books make the longlist and finally the shortlist for CBC's Canada Reads. According to Tara Mora, Executive Producer, CBC Books and Literary Partnerships at CBC/Radio-Canada, "The CBC Books team works with each panelist directly, suggesting books to them based on their preferences and profiles as readers."
Finally, Shelagh Rogers program, "The Next Chapter" is what Rebecca was trying to recall. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter