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Friday Reads: The forest for the small things like these


*The week in review on my channel:*

Trevor, Paul and Shawn on Hidden Gems - The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast: youtu.be/NSJR4wU7tpM?si=-8VssmBrhq083sWb

Wee Book Haul: youtu.be/6zoyngnX2aY?si=WcA99eBmGmc_SM3Z

Bite-sized Book Chats: The 72nd Episode: youtu.be/LqvuVTJALT8?si=jKPdTlsC4s2r6JUg

Elvin James Mensah on his stunning debut novel, Small Joys: a chat with Shawn the Book Maniac: youtu.be/ZSiLlBnQfD8?si=kPKeLD63ZnERla7D



I’m now going to put mystery guest webpages and books they’ve written near the bottom of my show notes, so 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 a separate section farther down.)


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Time stamps (scroll down for Goodreads links):

00:00 Introduction

03:46 Mystery guest

21:14 Week in Review (revamped)

23:15 The Forest by Georges Bugnet

26:37 Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

28:03 Apparitions by Adam Pottle

30:20 The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology by Karina Vernon (Editor)

31:23 A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power

32:18 A Free-Spirited Woman: The London Diaries of Gladys Langford, 1936-1940

33:19 Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told? By Jenny Diski

33:42 Jokes for the Apocalypse by David Carpenter


Books mentioned:

Fatty Legs: A True Story by Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton
goodreads.com/book/show/8585187-fatty-legs
My Bite-sized Book Chat with Lara: youtu.be/grBl3p_ULu4?si=f_NRrpGAhTizHaED

Lioness by Emily Perkins
goodreads.com/book/show/63227455-lioness?ref=rae_0

Bird Life by Anna Smaill
goodreads.com/book/show/75660871-bird-life?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=EXtUx3hV0f&rank=2

Audition by Pip Adam

The Forest by Georges Bugnet
David Carpenter (Translator)
goodreads.com/book/show/6877844-the-forest?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=126DKJRgQQ&rank=1
(Dave talks about Bugnet and the translation in this video: youtu.be/yOIMY_YUu0M?si=8kfhpd2T7DzU4Yv0)

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
goodreads.com/en/book/show/58662236

Apparitions by Adam Pottle
goodreads.com/book/show/75526373-apparitions?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_11

The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology by Karina Vernon (Editor)
goodreads.com/book/show/42953552-the-black-prairie-archives

A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power
goodreads.com/en/book/show/62645211

A Free-Spirited Woman: The London Diaries of Gladys Langford, 1936-1940 by Patricia Malcolmson (Editor), Robert Malcolmson (Editor)
goodreads.com/book/show/21481729-a-free-spirited-woman?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=LlCdussVS3&rank=1

Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told? By Jenny Diski
goodreads.com/book/show/54486819-why-didn-t-you-just-do-what-you-were-told?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_11

Jokes for the Apocalypse by David Carpenter
goodreads.com/book/show/4610132-jokes-for-the-apocalypse?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_26





Read a profile of Sue Orr: read-nz.org/writers-files/writer/orr-sue
Follow Sue on Twitter: @SueMOrr

Loop Tracks by Sue Orr
goodreads.com/book/show/57958363-loop-tracks?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=pAWLCdgkcV&rank=1





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