Lindy’s Magpie Reads | Recent Reads February 20: something for every age of reader in these 6 great books! @lindysmagpiereads | Uploaded February 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
In this booktube episode I have books for all ages: a picture book biography about a drag queen in Rajasthan and a middle grade novel about a water activist in Mumbai; an Indigenous graphic novel for teens by a Nehiyaw (Cree) artist from Alberta; a refugee memoir and queer speculative fiction by Asian Canadians; and new nonfiction about birds.

00:00 intro: ocean; hummingbirds

01:47 🇺🇸 What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman; published by Penguin

07:28 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai; published by Arsenal Pulp

11:31 🇰🇭🇨🇦🎧 Landbridge [Life in Fragments] by Y-Dang Troeung; audiobook read by Christine L Nguyen and Chris Patterson; published by Knopf Canada

15:47 🇨🇦 Bad Medicine by Christopher Twin [Cree]; published by Conundrum

17:40 🇮🇳 Thirst by Varsha Bajaj; published by Nancy Paulsen Books

20:40 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇳 Desert Queen by Jyoti Rajan Gopal and Svabhu Kohli; published by Levine Querido

23:20 question about clicks (or klicks) as slang for kilometres

24:20 Outro: wild southwest coast of Vancouver Island
——————-
Other Mentions:

Robyn Fleming’s @Owlsatthemet Instagram account

An Immense World by Ed Yong

How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa

Jyoti Rajan Gopal and Svabhu Kohli on Desert Queen: youtu.be/egi4kU_m6O0