![The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo [Family Reads]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/the-familiar-leigh-bardugo-family-reads-banner.png?fit=1600%2C900&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
Why we chose Leigh Bardugo’s The Familiar Leigh Bardugo is a popular author in the blogosopher who I’ve never read, whereas the Grishaverse books are some of Ash’s favourite. So when The Familiar was announced with a premise that interested more than any of Bardugo’s other works, I suggested we buddy read it for Family Reads. In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, […]
![The Divorcées by Rowan Beaird [Family Reads]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/the-divorcees-family-reads-banner.png?fit=1600%2C900&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
Why we chose Rowan Beaird’s The Divorcées Shazzie @ Reader at Work put this book on my radar. I suggested it for Mom because she reads a lot of WWII historical fiction. While this book is historical fiction, it’s from a different time period (post-WWII) and explores a unique topic. Lois Saunders thought marrying the right man would cure her loneliness, but as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is […]
![The Unlikely Redemption of John Alexander MacNeil by Leslye Choyce [Family Reads]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/unlikelly-rdemption-john-alexander-family-readers.png?fit=1600%2C900&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
Why we chose Lesley Choyce’s The Unlikely Redemption of John Alexander MacNeil I plucked this book off my to-read list cos 1) it’s Canadian, 2) it sounded like something Dad might enjoy, and 3) it was available via the public library in both physical and digital copies. (That third reason is the precipitating factor. I was scrolling through my to-read-fiction shelf and specifically looking for books available at the library.) […]
![When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill [Family Reads]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/when-women-were-dragons-family-reads-1024x576.png?resize=245%2C150&ssl=1)
Why we chose Kelly Barnhill’s When Women Were Dragons Ash and I went for out for breakfast one day in February. We wandered into a nearby bookstore, where When Women Were Dragons was on display. Ash mentioned it was on her TBR – she thought the cover was gorgeous and liked that it’s a standalone. It was also on my TBR. As a fan of Barnhill’s middle grade work (see: […]
![The Winter Garden by Alexandra Bell [Family Reads]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/the-winter-garden-banner.png?fit=1600%2C900&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
On the night her mother dies, 8-year-old Beatrice receives an invitation to the mysterious Winter Garden. A place of wonder and magic, filled with all manner of strange and spectacular flora and fauna, the garden is her solace every night for seven days. But when the garden disappears, and no one believes her story, Beatrice is left to wonder if it were truly real. Eighteen years later, on the eve […]