Category: Weekly Reads

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, May 27, 2023

  

  Spotlight In Memoriam, Alice Winn (2023) At an elite boarding school in the early 1910s, two teenage boys with high hopes and big ideas of truth and beauty fall in love — not that they’d ever dare tell each other. But the First World War first separates them and then unites them in its unimaginable…

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  May 27, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  Beirut Blues, Boarding School, First World War, In Memoriam, lgbtq2s+, Still Life, Teenage Protagonists, The Blind Assassin, The Collected Regrets of Clover, The Rook, The Vicar and the Rake, Train Dreams, War is Hell

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, May 20, 2023

  

  Spotlight: Himawari House || Weekly Roundup: The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, Stoner, The Magician’s Assistant, A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, The Ugly Cry, The Turn of the Screw, The Original

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  May 20, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, Asian American Experience, Expatriates, Found Family, Friendship, Himawari House, Japan, Language, Life Abroad, Stoner, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, The Magician’s Assistant, The Original, The Turn of the Screw, The Ugly Cry

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, May 13, 2023

  

  Spotlight: The Dispossessed || Weekly Roundup: Happy Place, All about Me!, Game Changer, Carmilla, This May End Badly, Peter Pan, Tiger Lily and the Secret Treasure of Neverland, The Story of the Amulet

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  May 13, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  All about Me!, Carmilla, community, Economics, Freedom, Game Changer, Happy Place, Individuality, Peter Pan, Politics, Responsibility, The Dispossessed, The Story of the Amulet, This May End Badly, Tiger Lily and the Secret Treasure of Neverland

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, May 6, 2023

  

  Spotlight: Before I Let Go || Weekly Roundup: The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Bloodchild and Other Stories, The Rebel Angels, The Cat Who Saved Books, The Alcatraz Escape, Pure Colour, 2 AM at the Cat’s Pajamas

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  May 6, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  2 AM at the Cat’s Pajamas, Before I Let Go, Black Thriving, Bloodchild and Other Stories, depression, grief and loss, Psychotherapy, Pure Colour, Resilience, romance, The Alcatraz Escape, The Cat Who Saved Books, The Rebel Angels, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, April 29, 2023

  

  Spotlight: The World and All that it Holds || Weekly Roundup: Ander and Santi Were Here, Nora Goes Off Script, Ghost Forest, If Cats Disappeared from the World, Sing Anyway, Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, Island of the Blue Dolphins

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  April 29, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  20th Century History, Ander and Santi Were Here, Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Found Family, Ghost Forest, If Cats Disappeared from the World, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Judaism, lgbtq2s+, Nora Goes Off Script, refugees, Sing Anyway, The World and All that it Holds

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, April 22, 2023

  

  Spotlight: Something Wild and Wonderful || Weekly Roundup: In the Lives of Puppets, Eastbound, Tatouine, Signal Fires, Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston, Greenglass House, Winter in Sokcho, The Tale of Despereaux

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  April 22, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  Complicated Families, Eastbound, Friendship, Greenglass House, Hiking, In the Lives of Puppets, lgbtq2s+, religious trauma, romance, Self-Acceptance, Signal Fires, Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston, Something Wild and Wonderful, Tatouine, The Tale of Despereaux, Winter in Sokcho

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, April 15, 2023

  

  Spotlight: When You Call My Name || Weekly Roundup: High Fidelity, A Mixture of Frailties, We Spread, Fence, Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang, Shad Hadid and the Alchemists of Alexandria, Ruby Spencer’s Whisky Year

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  April 15, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  1990s, A Mixture of Frailties, coming of age, Fence, High Fidelity, HIV/AIDS, Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang, lgbtq2s+, New York City, Ruby Spencer’s Whisky Year, Shad Hadid and the Alchemists of Alexandria, We Spread, When You Call My Name

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 25, 2023

  

  Spotlight: The Gospel according to Lazarus (aka The Lost Gospel of Lazarus) || Weekly Roundup: Tempest-Tost, Cinnamon & Gunpowder, One’s Company, Tin Man, Do I Know You?, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

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  March 25, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World, Cinnamon & Gunpowder, Do I Know You?, First-century Judaism, Jesus, Mysticism, One’s Company, Roman Empire, Tempest-Tost, The Gospel according to Lazarus, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, The Lost Gospel of Lazarus, Tin Man

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 18, 2023

  

  Spotlight: Galore || Weekly Roundup: The Manticore, World of Wonders, Funny You Should Ask, The Tempest, Earth’s the Right Place for Love, Gathering Blue, Lumberjanes

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  March 18, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  Atlantic Fishing Trade, Complicated Families, Galore, Multi-generational epics, Newfoundland, small towns

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 11, 2023

  

  Spotlight: Fifth Business || Weekly Roundup: Dubliners, Late Nights on Air, Well Traveled, The Long Run, Chef’s Kiss, Autobiography of Red, Little House in the Big Woods

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  March 11, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  Autobiography of Red, Canadian Literature, Chef’s Kiss, Depth Psychology, Dubliners, Fifth Business, Hagiography, Late Nights on Air, Little House in the Big Woods, Magic and Illusion, The Long Run, Twentieth Century History, Well Traveled