Reading From Our Shelves @canadareadsinspired

Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

Rebecca and Tara are back with their first live video in 2025! As always, they are sharing the books from their shelves at home that they've read and recommend, as well as the books they plan to read in the New Year.

Rebecca:
--Sunrise Over Half-Built Houses by Erin Steele
--Stories From the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana
--A Psalm for the Wild-Built; A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
--Cold; Chasing Painted Horses by Drew Hayden Taylor
--Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully by Julie McFadden, RN
--The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas by Jerry Dennis
--God’s Country by Percival Everett

Tara:
--Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
--Miss Chief Eagle Testickle Volume 1 by Kent Monkman and Gisele Gordon
--Murder and Other Essays by David Adams Richards
--The Doctor's Sweetheart and Other Stories by L.M. Montgomery
--Invisible Prisons by Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen
--Ruff by Rod Carley
--Double Eagle by Thomas King
--The AnneThology edited by Robin Sutherland, complied by Judith Graves
--The Reinvention of Love by Helen Humphreys
--The Lady of Rapture by Sarah Raughley

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