Born out of a desire to get a family of book lovers to connect more over what they’re reading, Family Reads is an occasional feature where my mom, dad or sister and I read and discuss a book. Why we chose Robin Roe’s A List of Cages Somehow, this book ended up on Dad’s to-be-read shelf. We picked it because it was readily available at the library and because we had […]
Born out of a desire to get a family of book lovers to connect more over what they’re reading, Family Reads is an occasional feature where my mom, dad or sister and I read and discuss a book. Why we chose Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne Ash and I read VanderMeer’s Annhiliation for our first Family Reads together (two years ago tomorrow!). When we heard of Borne, we agreed that we should read […]
Born out of a desire to get a family of book lovers to connect more over what they’re reading, Family Reads is an occasional feature where my mom, dad or sister and I read and discuss a book. Why we chose Lawrence Hill’s Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On being black and white in Canada We had tried reading two novels about Ireland for this month’s Family Reads. Unfortunately, we found […]
Born out of a desire to get a family of book lovers to connect more over what they’re reading, Family Reads is an occasional feature where my mom, dad or sister and I read and discuss a book. Why we chose Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan’s Save Me a Seat Ash (my sister) and I had originally chosen The Queen of Blood for this month’s Family Reads. She tried reading […]
Born out of a desire to get a family of book lovers to connect more over what they’re reading, Family Reads is an occasional feature where my mom, dad or sister and I read and discuss a book. Why we chose Kenneth Oppel’s Every Hidden Thing I had planned to attend Oppel’s talk, reading and signing at McNally Robinson at the end of September. As a Canadian growing up in […]