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Friday Reads: Slow reading and other joys




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Time stamps (scroll down for Goodreads links):

00:00 Introduction

02:30 Mystery guest

24:59 Weekly Highlights

27:54 Small Joys by Elvin James Mensah

32:53 Leave My Bones In Saskatoon by Michael Afenfia

34:58 Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan



Books mentioned:

A Fanatic Heart by Edna O'Brien
goodreads.com/book/show/694218.A_Fanatic_Heart?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=6s3x6dEcpV&rank=1

Tracking the Caribou Queen: Memoir of a Settler Girlhood by Margaret Macpherson
goodreads.com/book/show/61238457-tracking-the-caribou-queen
My chat with Margaret about this book: youtu.be/1yGVQMoXCr4?si=DqSNHPQL2D2DEhk4

Crow by Amy Spurway
goodreads.com/book/show/43681256-crow?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_8

The Adversary by Michael Crummey
goodreads.com/book/show/75669095-the-adversary?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_17

The Innocents by Michael Crummey
goodreads.com/book/show/44540158-the-innocents
My full review: youtu.be/O9ch-f0YOuc?si=pVbIM4HuPl-43Kn3

The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt
goodreads.com/book/show/62645180-the-librarianist?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_12

Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose by Raymond Carver
goodreads.com/book/show/11440.Call_If_You_Need_Me

“What We Talk About When We Talk About Carver” by David Carpenter. In Writing Home: Selected Essays by David Carpenter
goodreads.com/book/show/122584842
Also available online here: dccarpenter.com/carver.html

Always Brave, Sometimes Kind by Katie Bickell
goodreads.com/book/show/55464706-always-brave-sometimes-kind

Small Joys by Elvin James Mensah
goodreads.com/book/show/61612872-small-joys

Leave My Bones In Saskatoon by Michael Afenfia
goodreads.com/book/show/123503348-leave-my-bones-in-saskatoon

Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan
goodreads.com/book/show/23604537-mean-spirit

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
goodreads.com/book/show/193388249-killers-of-the-flower-moon?ref=nav_sb_ss_3_34

Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun: Portraits of Everyday Life in Eight Indigenous Communities by Paul Seesequasis
goodreads.com/book/show/40812636-blanket-toss-under-midnight-sun?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=dBbhzkAbCF&rank=1 
My full review: youtu.be/RHeSkCqnXZA?si=zYi3wJW0vwNAMU1D





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