2. Add a link to your review. (Please link to your specific review, not an entire webpage.)
3. Add your name and in parentheses the title of the book, such as Melwyk (Anne of Green Gables)
4. In the comment section below, tell me your grand total so far. (ex. "This brings me up to 1/13")
5. In the comment section below, note whether you've read a book which meets the monthly challenge set via email for participants.
Ack, I've never been the first one in the month, and I can't see the link. Is it a problem on my end, or possibly yours?
ReplyDeleteArgh! Thanks for pointing that out -- blogger ate my html! It should be fixed now and the linkup should be showing. Sorry to delay you as you're first off the plate :)
DeleteSeptember was a month to catch up on reading. I finally tackled Comeback (1983), Dan Hill's first and (mercifully) only novel. Not recommended. On the other hand, Robert Barr's Revenge! (1896) turned out to be great fun (if sometimes disturbing).
ReplyDeleteI'm now up to five.
Interesting choices, though not surprising from you ;) Glad one of them was fun.
DeleteCrows makes #8 for me. Written by a woman!
ReplyDeleteSounds good - I'm also fascinated by crows. We have a family of them who live around our place & they are so interesting to watch. Love your cover photo, too!
DeleteWith I'm Thinking of Ending Things (posted 9/26) and now, The Fog, I'm up to 13/13. The Fog is written by a woman.
ReplyDeleteThis brings me to 6/13 - and the main character of American War is a VERY strong woman, so I'd say it counts! (She's also a bisexual woman of color, I was excited to see that extra bit of representation!)
ReplyDeleteI added 6, 7 and 8 today. 6 and 7 were both by Canadian women. yippee. Well on my way to 13 this year.
ReplyDeleteWith Under the Dragon's Tail, I'm up to 14/13.
ReplyDeleteBellevue Square brings me to 4/13
ReplyDeleteTides of Honour brings me to 8/13. Written by Canadian author Genevieve Graham.
ReplyDeleteAnita Majumdar's The Fish Eyes Trilogy brings me to 8/13. The trilogy was written (and performed) by a woman, and it has strong feminist themes.
ReplyDeleteOnly book 3/13. I'll have to get a move on!
ReplyDeleteWith the Flying Troutmans I'm up to 15/13
ReplyDeleteSkitter brings me to 5/13
ReplyDeleteEmbers: One Ojibway's Meditations brings me to 9/13 for the Challenge!
ReplyDeleteBlack Feather brings me up to six. A 1939 thriller written by a Nova Scotia physician and Great War veteran, needless to say it was interesting.
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ReplyDeleteJust finished #15 ... "Nine Lessons I Learned from My Father" by Murray Howe about his father, Gordie.
ReplyDeleteJust finished #16 ... "Brother" by David Chariandy
ReplyDeleteI'm at 16/13 with Saints and Misfits.
ReplyDeleteSon of a Trickster brings me to 14/13!
ReplyDeleteBetter late than never - here's my first Challenge book for this year. 1/13 for Ethel Wilson's Hetty Dorval.
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ReplyDeleteI am at 70/13.
I reviewed some very wonderful stories of courage for our challenge this month. It was so great reading all of those stories.
I hope all of you are having a great October!
Irene Roth
Findley's You Went Away brings me to 9/13.
ReplyDelete10/13 with the book Black Apple by Joan Crate.
ReplyDeleteI'm now at 4/13.
ReplyDeleteAtwood's Moral Disorder makes 10/13.
ReplyDeleteI'll settle on these eight, until I know what some of the other link-up themes are. I enjoy seeing our names climbing up. There's an odd linkin mine. Here's the right one. My blog's menu tab of Canadian authors! Books that might have Canadian personages or places are under my general tab, called "Mine". I enjoy replying to all visitors. Happy Hallowe'en and my birth month comes next! :) Carolyn. http://cmriedel.wordpress.com/reviews-canadian/
ReplyDeleteGail Bowen and Phillipa Dunn are women. For the reader's blog roll: RIEDEL Fascination http://cmriedel.wordpress.com I need to make 2018 pages for my quartet soon, even though I run from February 1 annually.
ReplyDeleteBook 4/13
ReplyDeleteParting Shot brings me to 6/13.
ReplyDelete"Next Year For Sure" brings me to 16/13.
ReplyDeleteRe #52 on the October reviews list: Montreal Stories by Mavis Gallant was a great pick for Women's History Month. Glad I found that excellent audiobook - Canadian woman writer, many stories set circa WWII-time for the historical component, Canadian audiobook publisher company (Rattling Books) led by a woman (Janet Russell of NL), and Canadian woman narrator. Excellent. 5 stars.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2122304956
I'm so impressed by what Rattling Books does. I love Mavis Gallant & so this sounds like a must listen!
DeleteRe #53. Below the Bridge: Memories of the South Side of St. John's by Helen Porter was another great pick for Women's History Month, with the author's personal recollections of circa 1930s-50s in her distinct (since razed) community/neighbourhood. I listened to the audiobook version from Rattling Books.
ReplyDeleteWith All Our Wrong Todays, I'm at 17/13
ReplyDelete#54. Another woman author for Women's History Month. Writer/actor Janis Spence wrote and narrated the audiobook version of On the Beach at Spanish Room. I've seen it described as a contemporary story collection, but for me it has a largely very vintage feel, with the stories set in decades past. Some very interesting female characters and women's issues in there, too boot.
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ReplyDeleteRe #56. Come Back for Me by Sharon Hart-Green is WWII historical fiction, with a teen coming of age story in the postwar/first generation immigrant narrative mix. Good pick for Women's History Month.
ReplyDelete#57 above - Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood. Big name in Canlit and beyond for a Women's History Month choice. One of the biggest these days, for sure, what with the huge success of the television series adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale, and now Alias Grace airing. I've watched both. Loved The Handmaid's Tale -- so apropos today! -- and I've enjoyed the actress who is plays Grace in Alias Grace on CBC.
ReplyDelete#58 above - Coasting Trade by Robin McGrath. Yes, this one fits Women's History Month theme, too. Woman writer, a woman narrator, women's history content in there. I have also enjoyed several of Robin McGrath's historical fiction novels, like Donovan's Station. And her poetry. And I read her column in a local paper.
ReplyDelete#59 above - The Night Stages by Jane Urquhart is another good fit for the theme. Protagonist Tamara is a former WWII auxiliary pilot with a talent for drawing and a series of relationships (family and romantic) behind her - but what lies ahead?
ReplyDeleteSo I've read 11/13 as of October 31, including 7 books for October Women's History Month theme.
ReplyDeleteHope everyone had a nice Halloween. I've been posting my October books here in between handing candy out to trick-or-treaters.
Curious to find out what the theme is for November.