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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 Feb 27, 2023
Monday Feb 27, 2023
Rebecca and Tara are excited to chat with Keegan Connor Tracy, an award-winning actor, voiceover artist, writer, and director from British Columbia. She has starred in the TV show Once Upon a Time as the Blue Fairy and as Belle in Disney's popular Descendents film franchise. She is championing the novel Greenwood by Michael Christie on the 2023 CBC's Canada Reads debates.
Website: https://keeganthedirector.com/
Instagram: @keegolicious / @keeganthedirector
Twitter: @KCTthedirector
Canada Reads American Style is now an affiliate of Bookshop.org, where your purchases support local independent bookstores. Our curated shop includes books discussed on the podcast. When you purchase a book through our virtual bookshop, a portion of the sales benefits a local bookstore, as well as the podcast, which helps offset the costs of the show.
Monday Feb 20, 2023
Monday Feb 20, 2023
Rebecca and Tara are excited to chat with 2023 CBC's Canada Reads Defender, Mattea Roach, who is is the most successful Canadian competitor in Jeopardy! history. In the spring of 2022, they won a record-setting 23 games. They also are the host of Canadaland's podcast, The Backbench. Mattea will be championing the graphic novel Ducks written by Kate Beaton.
Canada Reads American Style is now an affiliate of Bookshop.org, where your purchases support local independent bookstores. Our curated shop includes books discussed on the podcast. When you purchase a book through our virtual bookshop, a portion of the sales benefits a local bookstore, as well as the podcast, which helps offset the costs of the show.
Friday Feb 10, 2023
Friday Feb 10, 2023
Rebecca and Tara discuss what they are currently reading and their best 2023 reads to date.
Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):
- Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah
- Stars and Scars by Jesse Thistle
- Poet Natalie Diaz
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- YouTube Channel: Bookworm Adventure Girl
- Poet Mary Oliver
- How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
- YouTube Channel: ThePoptimist
- Greenwood by Michael Christie
- Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
- Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
- Stitches by David Small
Tara (@onabranchreads):
- Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol; The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
- Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen
- Podcast: Backstage at the Vinyl Cafe
- Half-Bads in White Regalia by Cody Caetano
- In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas
- Legends & Latte by Travis Baldree
Canada Reads American Style is now an affiliate of Bookshop.org, where your purchases support local independent bookstores. Our curated shop includes books discussed on the podcast. When you purchase a book through our virtual bookshop, a portion of the sales benefits a local bookstore, as well as the podcast, which helps offset the costs of the show.
Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
Rebecca and Tara welcome Margot Fedoruk, author of Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives: An Island Memoir. Margot lives and works on Gabriola Island, BC and has been writing a personal blog since 2016 called Death Defying Acts of Living and an instructional soap making blog called Wash Rinse Repeat. She is currently enrolled in the Master of Library and Information Studies program at the University of Alberta.
Memoirists mentioned in the podcast include:
- Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman by Nuala O'Faolain
- Mary Karr
- Catherine Gildiner
- Jan Wong
Website: https://margotfedoruk.ca/
Twitter and Instagram: @margotfedoruk
Facebook: Margot Fedoruk
Rebecca's Instagram: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Tara's Instagram: @onabranchreads
Saturday Jan 28, 2023
Saturday Jan 28, 2023
Rebecca and Tara welcome Bookstagram and Canada Reads friend Sarah to answer the five questions.
Sarah's responses include:
- The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
- Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
- Marmee by Sarah Miller
- Revery: A Year of Bees by Jenna Butler
Sarah's Instagram: @sareshears
Rebecca's Instagram: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Tara's Instagram: @onabranchreads
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Rebecca and Tara discuss the 2023 CBC's Canada Reads Short List and five defenders. They also make their predictions for this year's winner.
Rebecca's Instagram: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Tara's Instagram: @onabranchreads
Sunday Jan 22, 2023
Sunday Jan 22, 2023
Rebecca and Tara welcome Bookstagram and Canada Reads friend Sarah to discuss the world of Reading Challenges.
- POPSUGAR 2023 Reading Challenge
- Scotiabank Giller Prize (personal challenge)
- Adabiyat Book Club / Instagram: @__adabiyat__
- JRR Tolkien (personal challenge)
- Agatha Christie (personal challenge)
- Read Around the World Challenge / Instagram: @readaroundtheworldchallenge
- StoryGraph
Sarah's Instagram: @sareshears
Rebecca's Instagram: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Tara's Instagram: @onabranchreads
Friday Jan 20, 2023
Friday Jan 20, 2023
Rebecca and Tara welcome Rebecca's friend and former colleague Geoff--their first American guest--to answer the five questions.
Geoff's answers include:
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
- American Rhapsody by Joe Eszterhas
- The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
- Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
- Enough Already by Valerie Bertinelli
- Spare by Prince Henry
Geoff joined them via Sacramento (CA) Public Library.
Rebecca's Instagram: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Tara's Instagram: @onabranchreads
Saturday Jan 14, 2023
Saturday Jan 14, 2023
Rebecca and Tara predict the five contenders for CBC's Canada Reads competition, which airs March 27-30, 2023.
Rebecca:
- Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
- Greenwood by Michael Christie
- Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew
- Finding Edward by Sheila Murray
- Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice or Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Tara:
- Greenwood by Michael Christie
- Ducks by Kate Beaton
- Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye or All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay
- Finding Edward by Sheila Murray
- Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin
Also, Tara mentions Kia Nurse, and Rebecca sends apologies to Andrew Phung for using his TV character's name, Andrew Pham.
Rebecca's Instagram: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Tara's Instagram: @onabranchreads
Saturday Jan 14, 2023
Saturday Jan 14, 2023
Rebecca and Tara share the top three books they've read since Book Chat #2.
Rebecca:
- The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir by Paul Newman
- Missed Connections: A Memoir in Letters Never Sent by Brian Francis
- Ice Walker: A Polar Bear's Journey through the Fragile Arctic by James Raffan
Tara:
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
- Scars & Stars by Jesse Thistle
Tara also references a favorite podcast: Eat Like a Heroine by Jenny Williams and Lorilee Craker.
Rebecca's Instagram: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Tara's Instagram: @onabranchreads
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
In the first author interview of 2023, Rebecca is thrilled to chat with Canadian author Hollay Ghadery. Fuse, Ghadery's memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released in Spring 2021. Rebellion Box is her debut collection of poetry and is planned for publication in 2023.
Instagram: @hollayghadery
Twitter: @Hollay2
Rebecca's Instagram: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
In the first podcast of the New Year, Rebecca welcomes Sandra, her Bookstagram friend, to answer the slightly revised Five Questions. Sandra's responses include the following titles:
- The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
- Portrait of an Unknown Lady by Maria Gainza
- Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
- The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Rebecca makes a quick reference to The Five by Hallie Rubenhold.
Rebecca's Instagram: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Tara's Instagram: @onabranchreads
Saturday Dec 31, 2022
Saturday Dec 31, 2022
Happy New Year!! Rebecca and Tara wrap up their first year of podcasting together and discuss what they read in 2022 and if they met their goals. Then they'll share their New Year goals for 2023!
Rebecca's highlights:
- Nora Watts series by Sheena Kamal
- What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
- Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition by Anne Frank
- Instagram: #readingtheworld / #readtheworld / #readaroundtheworld
- Rebecca's Instagram: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Tara's highlights:
- On Account of Darkness by Ian Kennedy
- The Spoon Stealer by Lesley Crewe
- Starling by Kirsten Cram
- Tara's Instagram: @onabranchreads
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
Rebecca and Tara are thrilled to chat with Sheena Kamal, whose bestselling debut The Lost Ones won her a Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, a Strand Critics Award, and Macavity Award for Best First Novel. The sequel It All Falls Down has been called “a stunning, emotionally resonant thriller” in its Kirkus-starred review. No Going Back and her first YA novel Fight Like A Girl were released in 2020.
According to her website, The Lost Ones is a dark, compulsively readable psychological suspense debut, the first in a new series featuring the brilliant, fearless, chaotic, and deeply flawed Nora Watts—a character as heartbreakingly troubled, emotionally complex, and irresistibly compelling as Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander and Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole.
TikTok and Instagram: @sheenakamalwrites
Website: https://www.sheenakamal.com/
Rebecca's Instagram: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Tara's Instagram: @onabranchreads
Sunday Nov 20, 2022
Sunday Nov 20, 2022
Tara shares a few of her much loved Christmas books and highlights titles she's planning to read this season!
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
The Christmas Tree: Two Tales for the Holidays by David Adams Richards
Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season by Tanya Kirk
Midnight in the Snow by Karen Swan
Christmas with Anne and Other Holiday Stories by L.M. Montgomery
A Christmas Story by Jean Shepherd
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Rebecca's Instagram: @canadareadsamericanstyle
Tara's Instagram: @onabranchreads