Friday Reads 01/10: CanLit classic; prorogue poetry; queer, Japanese, Welsh & Irish fiction; sci fi

In this #booktube episode: #audiobooks #kidlit #classics #speculativefiction #inTranslation #poetry

00:00 intro

04:35 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 Dog Songs: 35 Dog Songs and One Essay by Mary Oliver; published by Penguin

07:36 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 I Hate Parties by Jes Battis; published by Nightwood Editions

09:09 🇨🇦 The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery; published by Dreamscape

12:01 🇮🇪 The Women Behind the Door by Roddy Doyle; published by Knopf Canada

14:59 🇯🇵 Fractured Soul by Akira Mizubayashi; translated from French by Alison Anderson; published by HarperVia

20:40 🇯🇵 Little Shrew by Akiko Miyakoshi; translated from Japanese in house by the publisher; published by Kids Can Press

23:54 🇺🇸🎧 Hum by Helen Phillips; audiobook read by Ariel Blake; published by Simon & Schuster Audio

26:26 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎧 The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros; translated from Welsh by the author; audiobook read by the author; published by Blackstone

28:58 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🎧 Memory Piece by Lisa Ko; audiobook read by Eunice Wong; published by Books on Tape

31:28 Laurie MacFayden performs the Prorogue Song

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Other mentions:

Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin

How Do You Live by Genzaburo Yoshino, translated by Bruno Navasky

Skunk and Badger by Amy Timberlake & Jon Klassen

Tales from the Inner City by Shaun Tan

[scallydandlingaboutthebooks]

I had never heard of The Blue Castle and now it keeps popping up. Thanks for getting Laurie to read her poem.

[cubanita]

Interesting, I just downloaded Blue Castle. I have the first Paula Spenser book an read it years ago, so going to read that one first. I do like Roddy Doyle.
Enjoyed your sewwties poem.

[BookwormAdventureGirl]

Ok Lindy, I’m going to trust you about not needing to read the books before The Women Behind The Door. I will get to it eventually. Soooo glad you enjoyed The Blue Castle. 🙌🏻💙😊

[sarah-roadworthy]

So glad you enjoyed Hum. I must say I found it so believable. The commodification of nature and the intersection of motherhood and technology seemed soooo realistic. I thought there was so much in this short little book. Loved Laurie's reading.

[readandre-read]

I love the title of I Hate Parties. That alone makes me want to read it! I know I’ve read the first Paula Spencer book but it was so long ago. I do like Roddy I’m so glad that Blue Book of Nebo was a hit for you! The speculative books, Hum and Memory Piece are both books I’ve been wondering about so I’m glad to hear good reviews. I enjoyed Laurie’s poem; glad she shared it!

[MarilynMayaMendoza]

Hi Lindy, I got so much pleasure out of your video today. I loved Laurie‘s poem even though I don’t understand Canadian politics at all. This week I watched the Bob Dylan movie and I’ve been going down a rabbit hole with music and books. I’ll tell you more about that in a message. But you have so many books here that I’m interested in. I have to wake up and write them down before I forget them. I read a few Roddy Doyle‘s books that cracked me up so I think I want to visit his character Paula, who I never heard of. Blue castle also sounds something I want to read, but not now. I went down another rabbit hole because of the best of 2024 and I’m now in the 30s with Jean. Rhys in Paris and I’m wondering if you read her. It’s not a happy book, but it’s Paris and someone said in the book everyone goes back to Paris. I understand. Sending lots of aloha your way, dear friend.

[jorjastonej]

Loved your sweeties poem reading! I’m planning to read the blue castle soon

[joanneorrico]

I was recently introduced to Mary Oliver’s poetry and fell immediately in love with her writing. I must pick up Dog Songs for myself and a friend or two or three.

[SluggishReader]

I'm amused to hear your comments about the translation of Little Shrew. It's a bit similar to how English is used in Malaysia - increasing number of people are speaking in American or faux-American accent but we still use mainly British terminology. The writing can be any 😂

[sreilly]

Did Roddy Doyle take his characters to Clontarf? 😉