![Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta [Family Reads]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/frying-plantain-fr-banner.png?fit=1600%2C900&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
Why we chose Zalika Reid-Benta’s Frying Plantain [This an old drafted post that I’ve revived – we discussed this book back in February] Dad had flagged David Bergen’s story collection Here the Dark after reading a Winnipeg Free Press review of 2020 releases. When we checked the wait time at each of our libraries, we saw it would be a long time until it was available. So I checked my […]
![Mom and I Read Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think and Do [Family Reads]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/family-reads-Biased.png?fit=1600%2C900&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
Why we chose Jennifer L. Eberhardt’s Biased We decided to choose a non-fiction book about race and racism. We considered So You Want to Talk About Race, which I had read last summer. I thought it would be a good book for discussion. However, we usually choose a book neither of us have read for Family Reads, so I suggested Biased. Thanks to Katie @ Doing Dewey for reviewing this […]
![Middle Grade with Mom: The Lost Girl [Family Reads]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/the-lost-girl.jpg?fit=317%2C475&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
The Lost Girl by Anne Ursu When you’re an identical twin, your story always starts with someone else. For Iris, that means her story starts with Lark. Iris has always been the grounded, capable, and rational one; Lark has been inventive, dreamy, and brilliant—and from their first moments in the world together, they’ve never left each other’s side. Everyone around them realized early on what the two sisters already knew: […]
![Silver in the Wood [Family Reads]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/silver-in-the-wood.jpg?fit=297%2C475&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads. When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner in Henry Silver, everything changes. Old secrets […]
![The Origin of Netflix [Family Reads]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/that-will-never-work.jpg?fit=484%2C750&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea by Marc Randolph Netflix’s triumph feels inevitable, but the twenty first century’s most disruptive start up began with few believers and calamity at every turn. From having to pitch his own mother on being an early investor, to the motel conference room that served as a first office, to server crashes on launch day, to […]