2024 Goals @canadareadsinspired

Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

Happy New Year! Rebecca and Tara review their 2023 reading goals and set new challenges for 2024!

Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):
Finding Edward by Sheila Murray
The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (All-New Third Edition)
Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America by Matika Wilbur
2024 Inclusive Picture Book Read Along Challenge by @readingwithredandthemagpie
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Rebecca - Daphne duMaurier
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
The Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers
Unless - Carol Shields
Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay
Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
My Antonia - Willa Cather
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Street by Ann Petry

Tara (@onabranchreads):
The Frozen Thames; And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life; Nocturne: On the Life and Death of My Brother by Helen Humphreys

Interview - Joanne Jackson and Sunset Lake Resort

Interview - Caitlin Galway and A Song for Wildcats

$Interview - Leslie Shimotakahara and The Breakwater Rebecca is excited to chat with Canadian author Leslie Shimotakahara about her latest novel, The Breakwater, which will be published by Cormorant Books in April 2026. https://www.cormorantbooks.com/Books/T/The-Breakwater One morning in Toronto, Cathy Matsumoto’s father, Yasuo, calls to announce he intends to visit a dying cousin in British Columbia. Cathy’s never heard of this mysterious relative before, but she begrudgingly agrees to plan a family trip with her father and daughter, Tessa, to Victoria, the hometown Yas was forcibly evicted from when Japanese Canadians were interned during World War Two. Its only in BC that Cathy learns this “cousin” is actually Yas’s younger brother, Stum, who’s been languishing in psychiatric care, abandoned, ever since Yas committed him to Essondale Asylum before the war. Yas tries to fend off probing questions from his daughter and granddaughter, but revisiting old haunts brings back memories of the brothers’ boyhood rivalry and coming-of-age near Victoria’s Chinatown, when Yas’s resolve to hold their fractured family together clashed against Stum’s troublesome turn toward a life of gambling, crime, and consorting with prostitutes. In this heartbreaking family story, two brothers, both old men not far from death, must at last confront long-buried family secrets — and their lingering effects on subsequent generations. Recommended Books: Flashlight by Susan Choi Worldly Girls: A Memoir by Tamara Jong It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished: A Memoir of My Body by Kate Gies https://leslieshimotakahara.com/ https://www.instagram.com/leslieshimotakahara$

Interview - Jinwoo Park and Oxford Soju Club

Interview - Jerrod Edson and The Boulevard

Interview - Erin Steele and Sunrise over Half-Built Houses: Love, Longing and Addiction in Suburbia