Shawn Breathes Books | Friday Reads: Reading that makes my head hurt in a good way - and other adventures @shawnbreathesbooks | Uploaded April 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Friday Reads: Reading that makes my head hurt in a good way - and other adventures

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*The week in review on my channel:*

Shawn the Book Maniac on 12 intriguing Canadian works of fiction coming out in the spring of 2024: youtu.be/JVf0luzw_xE?si=tZFue24XuA0nujwq

Zooming In: Kendra on Alice Wong’s disability activism & being better allies on bookish social media: youtu.be/kf4nKOac9fA?si=b5zN_ozX1bjjqn9m

Wee Book Haul: youtu.be/X28O8y7B2VM?si=daRrM_WAksqpxk56

A chat with Nigerian-Canadian writer Michael Afenfia about his novel, Leave My Bones In Saskatoon: youtu.be/GSkIlC07XK8?si=0d3xi7VBNuFZuaXm


I’m now putting mystery guest webpages and books they’ve written near the bottom of my show notes, so that you might better resist the temptation to peek. 😜 (This also means that books authored by mystery guests will not be in the regular book list or time stamps but in that separate section farther down.)



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Time stamps (scroll down for Goodreads links):

00:00 Introduction

01:40: Update on Kenji

04:19 Mystery guest

34:12 Week in Review

35:45 Mirror of the Darkest Night by Mahasweta Devi

40:20 Something in Disguise by Elizabeth Jane Howard

41:42 The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan


Books mentioned:

Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author by Sophus Helle
goodreads.com/book/show/61871762-enheduana?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_57

The Child by Alistair Mackay
goodreads.com/blog/show/2738?ref=BigBooksSpring24_eb

It Doesn't Have To Be This Way by Alistair Mackay
goodreads.com/book/show/60116337-it-doesn-t-have-to-be-this-way

The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda
goodreads.com/book/show/373967.The_Heart_of_Redness?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=HritrEka2n&rank=1

Emperor of Rome: Mphuthumi Ntabeni interviews Mary Beard: https://www.litnet.co.za/emperor-of-rome-mphuthumi-ntabeni-interviews-mary-beard/?fbclid=IwAR1EoTqVbyZHviQyIID_WBiIq1CpfpVr42h9bNjqFvzcLRoZDXjZakgIWHw_aem_AQWsZzyfesYQS26bYXDViBlTyayK6Pvn9DDqVRNYDOLUiQkEg8vpX8O5BBsBdItb7Ck

The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
goodreads.com/book/show/317748.The_Stone_Angel

Mirror of the Darkest Night by Mahasweta Devi
Shamya Dasgupta (Translator)
goodreads.com/book/show/31939340-mirror-of-the-darkest-night?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_19

Something in Disguise by Elizabeth Jane Howard
goodreads.com/book/show/31699704-something-in-disguise

The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan
goodreads.com/book/show/185767235-the-hearing-test?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13






Mpush’s website: https://ntabeni.site

The Broken River Tent by Mphuthumi Ntabeni
goodreads.com/book/show/70097053-the-broken-river-tent

The Wanderers by Mphuthumi Ntabeni
goodreads.com/book/show/58547393-the-wanderers
Watch Bob’s and my chat with Mpush about The Wanderers here: youtu.be/9TnRNCrzexM

‘The lost diaries of Tiyo Soga’ by Mphuthumi Ntabeni
https://www.litnet.co.za/the-lost-diaries-of-tiyo-soga/


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