Episode 215
Book Chat 25
Canada Reads American Style · Canada Reads American Style
March 16, 202548m 41sExplicit
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Show Notes
Rebecca and Tara share their latest good reads AND make their final predictions for CBC's 2025 Canada Reads debates which begin on Monday, March 17.
Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):
- Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
- Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith and Derrick Barnes; illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile
- Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall; illustrated by Hugo Martinez
- Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
Tara (@onabranchreads):
- The Bones of Ruin Trilogy: The Bones of Ruin; The Song of Wrath; The Lady of Rapture by Sarah Raughley. (Check out Tara's interview with Sarah on October 2, 2024)
- The Queen's Spade by Sarah Raughley
- How to Survive a Bear Attack: A Memoir by Claire Cameron
- Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B59wqgYNEM
- Beautiful Ugly; Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
- Canadian author of thrillers--Nicole Lundrigan
2025 Canada Reads titles:
- Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew
- Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper
- Jennie's Boy by Wayne Johnston
- A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby and Mary Louisa Plummer
- Watch Out for Her by Samantha M. Bailey
Also mentioned:
- Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir by Wayne Johnston