The Indextrious Reader

  The Poetry Remedy / William Sieghart NY: Viking, c2019. 224 p. Another choice for poetry month reading! I was intrigued when I saw this book, as it's a form of bibliotherapy, which I h...

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  Thread Me a Button / Jude Aquilina & Joan Fenney Port Adelaide: Ginninderra Press, c2012. 73 p. It's poetry month! So I thought I might share a little bit of poetry today. I discovered...

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Snow Road Station / Elizabeth Hay TO: Knopf Canada, c2023. 230 p. I haven't been reading as many current Canadian novels as usual, but I did pick this one up recently after someone mentione...

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Shubeik Lubeik / Deena Mohamed trans. from the Arabic by the author New York : Pantheon Books, 2022. 518 p. What would you wish for, if you knew your wish would come true? This is the quest...

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Night Side of the River / Jeanette Winterson NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, c2023. 320 p. This was an interesting concept for a book -- ghost stories by literary writer Jeanette Winterson, fol...

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Cold / Drew Hayden Taylor TO: McLelland & Stewart, c2024. 359 p. This is a book I would not have normally picked up -- it's a horror/thriller with hockey, middle aged men, and gore. But, it...

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The Skull / Jon Klassen Somerville, MA: Candlewick, c2023. 106 p. This little middle grade read was recommended to me by a friend, and so I read it -- quickly, as it's barely 100 pages, wit...

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  The Hearing Trumpet / Leonora Carrington Potter's Bar, UK: Naxos Audiobooks, 2017, c1974 This novel by Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington was certainly as surreal as her artwork! I ...

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The Future / Catherine Leroux trans. from the French by Susan Ouriou Windsor, ON : Biblioasis, c2023. 309 p. The Future, which I read about a month ago, has just won this year's Canada Read...

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  Snowglobe / Soyoung Park trans. from the Korean by Joungmin Lee Comfort New York : Delacorte Press, 2024, c2020. 372 p. This YA dystopia is set in a future Korea after climate disaster...

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  Marigold and Rose / Louise Gluck  New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023, ©2022 55p. This slim tale by poet Louise Gluck is a charming read. Marigold and Rose are twins, ...

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The Ukraine / Artem Chapeye trans. from the Ukrainian by Zenia Tompkins NY: Seven Stories Press, c2024. 272 p. This is a recent translation, a collection of fiction and non-fiction by Artem...

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Ukraine: A Spring for the Thirsty / ed. by Arthur Thompson Dupond, c2022. 252 p. Ukraine has been on my mind even more as we head up to the 2 year mark of the Russian invasion. I have been ...

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A Tale of Two Families / Dodie Smith London, UK: Hesperus Press, 2015, c1970. 272 p. Following on from Yoshimoto's Premonition, I picked up another story of families and strange relationsh...

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The Premonition / Banana Yoshimoto trans. from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2023, c1988. 144 p. I really love Banana Yoshimoto. So I was delighted when I saw that ...

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  The Goodbye Cat / Hiro Arikawa translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel Toronto, ON : Viking, 2023, c2021. 278 p. Starting off the year with a review for the January Japanese Lite...

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The Japanese Literature Challenge is running for the 17th year, created and hosted by Dolce Bellezza. The goal is to read and review Japanese books in translation throughout January and Febr...

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  Already time for the yearly roundup of some of my best reads this year. I always wait until the very last possible moment to post my list; you never know what you'll come across around Ch...

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Last year I participated in a few yearlong reading projects, many of which are long term ongoing ones. I'm still going on with most of them for 2024. I tried to rejoin the TBR pile challenge in 2...

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  My annual Christmas treat As usual at this time of year, I review and share my reading/blogging year with First Lines. Simply put, we share the first line of the first post of each mon...

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  MERRY CHRISTMAS! WISHING YOU ALL A HAPPY & RELAXING DAY  TO REST AND READ. Content of this post owned and copyrighted by The Indextrious Reader. Please do not use my content elsewh...

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  A Lot Like Christmas / Connie Willis  NY: Random House, c2017. 544 p. I enjoy Connie Willis' books, and so decided on her 2017 collection of seasonal short stories for my holiday read...

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  I've been loving the #bookscavengerhunt  posts over on Instagram this year -- I think I found them all thanks to @barbaras.book.obsession  ! This is a festive themed one to round out...

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  Myrtle, Means and Opportunity / Elizabeth Bunce New York : Algonquin Young Readers, c2023. 360 p. This was both a highly anticipated read for me, and a sad one in a way -- because it's...

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  Time Capsule / Lauren Redniss NY: Random House, c2022. Time Capsule is a picture book that raises big questions about time, memory, and the future. Readers follow a young girl as she p...

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