Shawn Breathes Books | Friday Reads: Stories & Writers & Books @shawnbreathesbooks | Uploaded November 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Friday Reads: Stories & Writers & Books




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Like Porcelain Figurines by Nnaemeka Nnam: iselemagazine.com/2023/11/15/like-porcelain-figurines-nnaemeka-nnam

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Time stamps (scroll down for Goodreads links):

00:00 Intro

02:44 A biblioadventure

05:45 A special guest

15:54 Another special guest

37:54 Weekly Highlights

40:01 Indians on Vacation: A Novel by Thomas King

42:55 No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July

46:01 My Ántonia by Willa Cather

48:11 In The Fog of the Season’s End by Alex La Guma


Books mentioned:

Becoming a Matriarch by Helen Knott
goodreads.com/book/show/123666414-becoming-a-matriarch?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=uBjiG6me9Q&rank=2

In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience by Helen Knott
goodreads.com/book/show/44643952-in-my-own-moccasins

Fatty Legs: A True Story by Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, Liz Amini-Holmes (Illustrator)
goodreads.com/book/show/8585187-fatty-legs

Fatty Legs: A True Story by Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, Liz Amini-Holmes (Illustrator)
goodreads.com/book/show/8585187-fatty-legs
My bite size chat with Lara: youtu.be/grBl3p_ULu4?si=2Gp8YnbmKN8yDMJ6

Jagua Nana by Cyprian Ekwensi
goodreads.com/book/show/566585.Jagua_Nana

Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson
goodreads.com/book/show/59634120-small-worlds?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_6

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
goodreads.com/book/show/53414230-open-water

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
goodreads.com/book/show/25622780-wide-sargasso-sea?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=a8yGmqmT3P&rank=1

The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
goodreads.com/book/show/59808607-the-book-of-goose?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=bRzeFY48JD&rank=1

The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
goodreads.com/book/show/57771850-the-netanyahus

Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen
goodreads.com/book/show/23308445-book-of-numbers

Kudos by Rachel Cusk
goodreads.com/book/show/36347932-kudos

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
goodreads.com/en/book/show/58662236
(The audio of Eleanor Wachtel’s interview with Claire Keegan is embedded on this page: cbc.ca/radio/writersandcompany/claire-keegan-s-small-things-like-these-is-a-story-of-moral-crisis-heroism-and-the-human-heart-1.6426299)

The Colony by Audrey Magee
goodreads.com/book/show/57977494-the-colony

Foster by Claire Keegan
goodreads.com/book/show/8143909-foster

Indians on Vacation: A Novel by Thomas King
goodreads.com/book/show/48947326-indians-on-vacation?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=aM6A1HAUMm&rank=1

No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
goodreads.com/book/show/2066751.No_One_Belongs_Here_More_Than_You

My Ántonia by Willa Cather
goodreads.com/book/show/157975.My_ntonia

Now and Then by William Corlett
goodreads.com/book/show/1279409.Now_and_Then?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=nVRJ4Lpwlf&rank=1

In The Fog of the Season’s End by Alex La Guma
goodreads.com/book/show/832714.In_the_Fog_of_the_Seasons_End



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