Lindy’s Magpie Reads | Friday Reads May 12: Asian Heritage Month; Canadian authors; knitting & travel to the Yukon @lindysmagpiereads | Uploaded May 2023 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Friday Reads May 12

00:00 Intro - Yukon trip - knitting retreat

02:59 Carol Shields Prize -
When We Were Sisters by Fatima Asghar

Sleeping Car Porter Suzette Mayr
Brown Girls Daphne Palasi Andreades

04:22 🇺🇸🇮🇳 The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff; published by Ballantine

06:45 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 Carmilla, The First Vampire by Amy Chu and Soo Lee; published by Dark Horse

08:41 🇺🇸🎧 Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross; audiobook read by Ellyn Jameson; published by Books on Tape

10:06 🇨🇦 The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Mi’kmaw & Settler); published by Harper Perennial

14:16 🇨🇦 Wild Geese by Martha Ostenso; published by New Canadian Library

18:30 Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: choosing which audiobook narrator

21:35 Knitting chat

23:41 Brioche knitting

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Other mentions:

Carol Shields Prize winner announced: carolshieldsprizeforfiction.com/2023-winner

Kit the reader @kitthereader

I forgot to mention that I picked up Wild Geese for Jolene Bookworm Adventure Girl’s Read Across Canada challenge (Manitoba was for April … better late than never)
Jolene @BookwormAdventureGirl

May of the Moderns hosted by:
Margaret Pinard @MargaretPinard May of the Moderns Announcement: youtube.com/live/RwOEzTSpEPI?feature=share

Misery May Thomas Hardy readathon hosted by:
Scott @GunpowderFictionPlot
Gemma @GemofBooks

Stripe’aganza shawl pattern available through Ravelry: ravelry.com/patterns/library/stripeaganza

Custom Woolen Mills: customwoolenmills.com