Category: Weekly Reads
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, September 17, 2022
Spotlight: Red at the Bone || Reads in honour of Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (September 30) Native Wisdom, Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance Through Alliance, Making Love with the Land, Blanket Toss under Midnight Sun || Weekly Roundup: Less is Lost, Lucy by the Sea, The Geek Who Saved Christmas, Women…
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, September 10, 2022
Spotlight: My Government Means to Kill Me || Readings in honour of Canada’s National Day of Truth & Reconciliation : Red Paint, The Cultural Toolbox: Traditional Ojibwe Living in the Modern World, Resurgence and Reconciliation, Claiming Anishinaabe || Weekly Roundup: Much Ado about You, Euphoria, Shine Bright, The Lost Duke of Wyndham, The Earth Moved,…
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, September 3, 2022
Spotlight: Haven || Reading in honour of Canada’s National Day for Truth & Reconciliation (September 30): Be a Good Ancestor, Pathways of Reconciliation || Weekly Roundup: The Holiday Trap, Scott Pilgrim (Vol. 1-6), Sunny Rolls the Dice, Empathy Works, The Dead Romantics, Akata Woman, Meet Cute Club, Resilient Grieving
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, August 27, 2022
Spotlight: The Kaiju Preservation Society | Weekly Roundup: A Walk in the Woods, The All of It, A Seditious Affair, The Purpose Path, The Dragon’s Bride, Rewild Yourself, The Layover, A Universe from Nothing, In Deeper Waters
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, August 20, 2022
Spotlight: Thunder through my Veins, Gregory Scofield (1999) || Weekly Roundup: The Maid; In a New York Minute; The Key to Inclusion; In; The Sorcerer of the North; The Candymakers; Switch
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, August 13, 2022
Spotlight This Time Tomorrow, Emma Straub (2022) On the cusp of turning forty, Alice’s life is good enough but filled with regrets about following the path of least resistance in life — not getting her dad to quit smoking, not telling her highschool crush how she felt, and staying at the entry-level job she got…
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, August 6, 2022
Spotlight The Dove in the Belly, Jim Grimsley (2022) This is a story of two very different young men and their struggles with trying to understand their sexuality and masculinity in mid-1970s North Carolina. Ronny is thin, academic, and the kind of guy used to having homophobic slurs thrown at him on a regular basis;…
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, July 30, 2022
Spotlight: Husband Material || Weekly Roundup: The Upside of Uncertainty, Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake, A Man Called Ove, Holding the Calm, The Dawnhounds, Recitatif
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, July 23, 2022
Spotlight: Take Me to Your Chief || Weekly Roundup: Handbook for an Integrated Life, Still Life, A Little Bit Country, I Am Ace, Chike and the River
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, July 16, 2022
Spotlight: Still Stace || Weekly Roundup: Lullabies for Little Criminals, A Fashionable Indulgence, Ruins of Gorlan, Last Summer on State Street, The Siren Depths
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