Category: family reads

Valour Road: How Three Men from the Same Street Earned the Victoria Cross in WWI [Family Reads]

10 November 2019 / family reads / 2 Comments
Valour Road: How Three Men from the Same Street Earned the Victoria Cross in WWI [Family Reads]

Why we chose John Nadler’s Valour Road Mom and I didn’t have any particular ideas for this month. So, I asked Mom to pick fiction or non-fiction and then we browsed my to-read-fiction shelf on Goodreads. We landed on Valour […]

Starlight: A Stunning Final Novel from Richard Wagamese [Family Reads]

30 September 2019 / family reads / 5 Comments
Starlight: A Stunning Final Novel from Richard Wagamese [Family Reads]

Why we chose Richard Wagamese’s Starlight My dad and I previously read Wagamese’s novel Medicine Walk for a Family Reads discussion back in 2016. One day, Starlight came up while we were chatting (I think he had just placed it […]

Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction [Family Reads]

23 July 2019 / family reads / 0 Comments
Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction [Family Reads]

Why we chose Travis Lupick’s Fighting for Space I spotted this book in a library display of local topics. I thought Ash might find the topic relevant to her interests. I was also curious to learn more about the area […]

Perseverance by Tim Hague [Family Reads]

28 December 2018 / family reads / 2 Comments
Perseverance by Tim Hague [Family Reads]

Why we chose Tim Hague’s Perseverance We had two other options for Family Reads this month, but one of them we didn’t like much and the other one I couldn’t get a copy of quick enough. So when Dad spotted a […]

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan [Family Reads]

20 September 2018 / family reads / 0 Comments
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan [Family Reads]

Why we chose Sarah Rees Brennan’s In Other Lands After Mythago Wood  disappointed my sister and I, we agreed that we wanted to try another stand alone fantasy.  Ash suggested this book, about which I had recently heard some positive things. […]