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Reasonable Adults by Robin Lefler (ARC Review)

Title: Reasonable Adults Author: Robin Lefler Type: Fiction Genre: Adult, Contemporary, Romance Publisher: HarperAvenue Date published: December 13, 2022 This post is sponsored. A complimentary digital copy of this book was kindly provided by HarperCollins Canada in exchange for an honest review. Everything has fallen apart for Kate Rigsby: she is freshly single—separated from an ex she never…

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Book Spotlight The Virgins of Venice Gina Buonaguro #TheVirginsofVenice #HistoricalFiction #Venice #Renaissance #BlogTour #TheCoffeePotBookClub @cathiedunn

Book Spotlight The Virgins of Venice Gina Buonaguro #TheVirginsofVenice #HistoricalFiction #Venice #Renaissance #BlogTour #TheCoffeePotBookClub @cathiedunn Linnea Tanner BOOK SPOTLIGHT: THE VIRGINS OF VENICE I am pleased to spotlight the book, The Virgins of Venice, by Gina Buonaguro in The Coffee Pot Book Club Blog Tour being held on July 10th, 2024. The Virgins of Venice is a Historical Fiction published by HarperAvenue on December 13, 2022 (432 pages). Below are highlights of The Virgins of Venice and Gina Buonaguro’s author bio. Tour Schedule Page: https://thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2024/06/blog-tour-the-virgins-of-venice-by-gina-buonaguro.html   HIGHLIGHTS: THE VIRGINS OF VENICE   The Virgins of Venice by Gina Buonaguro Audiobook narrator: Carlotta Brentan Blurb: In sixteenth-century Venice, one young noblewoman dares to resist the choices made for her... Read the full article

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My giveaway win came in. Thank you so much @arianna.reads and @fabricbound! This is my second book sleeve and the surprise book choice was perfect. I love all things related to dinosaurs and book sleeves are becoming my new must have bookish item. QOTD: What bookish items do you collect? Featured Book: Crow Winter by Karen McBride 🦕🦖 SYNOPSIS:🦖🦕 Nanabush. A name that has a certain weight on the tongue—a taste. Like lit sage in a windowless room or aluminum foil on a metal filling. Trickster. Storyteller. Shape-shifter. An ancient troublemaker with the power to do great things, only he doesn’t want to put in the work. Since coming home to Spirit Bear Point First Nation, Hazel Ellis has been dreaming of an old crow. He tells her he’s here to help her, save her. From what, exactly? Sure, her dad’s been dead for almost two years and she hasn’t quite reconciled that grief, but is that worth the time of an Algonquin demigod? Soon Hazel learns that there’s more at play than just her own sadness and doubt. The quarry that’s been lying unsullied for over a century on her father’s property is stirring the old magic that crosses the boundaries between this world and the next. With the aid of Nanabush, Hazel must unravel a web of deceit that, if left untouched, could destroy her family and her home on both sides of the Medicine Wheel. #CrowWinter #KarenMcBride #books #HarperAvenue #readIndigenous #diversereading #booksleeves #fabricbound #giveawaywinner #decolonizebookstagram #bookish #bookworm #bookdragon #bookrec #ownvoices #dinosaurs #Ilovebooks #bibliophile #bookphotography #booksoutside #booksoutside #bookishitems #bookwormactivities #bookfeatures #Indigenousbooks #weneeddiversebooks #bookaddict #backyardbooks #bookishhobby (at Bushwick) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKZvcHLAs9q/?igshid=a35cq5qvqzkd

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May

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Beach Read by Emily Henry (Berkley) / Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner  / The Scottish Boy by Alex de Campi (Unbound) / These Women by Ivy Pochoda (Ecco)

June

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The Court of Miracles by Kester Grant (Knopf Children’s) / Queen’s Peril by E.K. Johnston (Lucasfilm Press) / The State of Us by Shaun David Hutchinson (HarperTeen) / The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth  (HarperTeen)

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The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho (Tor.com) / Sad Janet by Lucie Britsch (Riverhead) / Vera Kelly is not a Mystery by Rosalie Knecht (Tin House Books) / I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee (Katherine Tegen Books)

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Death In Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin Press) / Night Owls and Summer Skies by Rebecca Sullivan (Wattpad) / Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)

July

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Or What You Will by Jo Walton (Tor Books) / Not Like the Movies by Kerry Winfrey (Berkley) / The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press) / Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power (Delacorte Press)

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The Fell of Dark by Caleb Roehrig (Feiwel & Friends) / A Sweet Mess by Jayci Lee (St. Martin’s) / Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell ( Random House) / Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan (Doubleday)

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Afterland by Lauren Beukes (Mulholland Books) / The Faithless Hawk by Margaret Owen (Henry Holt and Co.) / The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue (HarperAvenue) / Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson (Tor Books)

August

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Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com) / Where Dreams Descend by Janella Angeles (Wednesday Books) / Little Threats by Emily Schultz (G.P. Putnam’s Son) / Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram (Dial Books)

Most Anticipated 2020 Summer Reads May Beach Read by Emily Henry (Berkley) / Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner  / …

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Book Review: Little Darlings

Book Review: Little Darlings

Little Darlings by Melanie Golding – eBook, 336 pages Published April 30th 2019 by HarperAvenue

I am a huge fan of thriller, detective and suspense novels. I also adore fantasy elements, which this book incorporated fantastically.

Right from the very beginning, this novel creates a sense of unease and suspense. Even when Lauren meets her twin sons, I felt myself waiting for something to…

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TBC: Born Into It

There is something distinctive about being a fan of any team. We rationalize and justify moves made by our favorite teams that we'd scorn if any other team made the same move. We pay outrageous prices to watch our teams perform, in some cases travelling long distances to see them compete for victory. What actually makes us a fan? That philosophical question can't be answered in one sentence, but one man attempts to examine his own fandom in today's entry into Teebz's Book Club. Teebz's Book Club is proud to review Born Into It, written by Jay Baruchel and published by HarperAvenue, a division of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Jay talks about how his upbringing, the city he called home, and the surrounding aura of the Montreal Canadiens swept him into their fanbase and how the history of the team, specific star players, and his own life have prevented him from straying from the pack.

If you don't know who Jay Baruchel is, he's legitimately one of the people to keep an eye on in Hollywood and across the world. From his bio, "Writer, actor, director and comedian JAY BARUCHEL is also part owner and chief creative officer of Chapterhouse Comics. He is best known for his roles in Knocked Up, Tropic Thunder, This Is the End, Almost Famous, Million Dollar Baby and the Goon movie franchise (he wrote both screenplays and directed the sequel). He is the voice of Hiccup Haddock in the How to Train Your Dragon movies and series. Born in Ottawa and raised for the most part in Montreal and later in Oshawa, Baruchel now lives in Toronto, where he continues to cheer for the Habs." Baruchel can be followed on Twitter at @BaruchelNDG. Having met Jay Baruchel at a book signing for this book, I have to admit that I heard the words being read in Jay's voice as I made my way through the pages. The words chosen by Baurchel to tell his story may see you need a dictionary as his chosen diction is very accurate to how he feels. There are words that may trip up the casual reader, but don't let this discourage you. As stated, these words are very accurate in conveying the point and the message of what Jay is saying, and I commend him for his range of diction in expressing himself. The man is very intelligent, and this trait is shown throughout Born Into It by his command of the English language. Born Into It takes you through several pieces of Jay's life that are interwoven with his eternal love for the Montreal Canadiens. Jay talks of growing up in Montreal where his dad lived his life through his love of the Canadiens and an illicit affair with drugs while his mother did everything she could to keep Jay and his sister from this life. While there was a lot of good days in Jay's life growing up thanks to the Canadiens and his family, there were the occasional days where things were not always rainbows. The move that the Baruchel family made to Oshawa seemed to be where Jay's love for the Canadiens became steadfast as he found himself living squarely in Toronto Maple Leafs country. Despite living where the blue-and-white were the topic of choice each and every day, Jay's love of the Canadiens made him a bit of an outsider. This was also exemplified when he was 18 and moved to Los Angeles only to seek out Les Canadiens once more in a new city in a new country where hockey was solely known as the Los Angeles Kings. Through these moves in his life, Jay's love of the Canadiens never wavered thanks to the Canadiens being imprinted on him in his earliest memories, and this unwavering love of Montreal's NHL team is the basis for the first-half of Born Into It as Jay explains how deep the bleu-blanc-et-rouge runs in his veins. One of the highlights you'll find as you read through Born Into It are the emails Jay has decided to send to various opponents of the Canadiens against whom les Canadiens have a long-running legacy. Whether these emails are real and were sent is of little consequence; rather, they serve to illustrate the histories these various teams have with the Canadiens and how Jay, as a fan, has been tortured by these meetings. Of all of them, I actually enjoyed the email written to the Quebec Nordiques the most as it really provided some insight as to how the two NHL franchises were not only fierce rivals on the ice, but served as political machinations within the province of Quebec during a time where separatism was a common word in everyday language. Like any good hockey fan, Jay uses a chapter in his book to address the elephant in room - fighting in hockey. The argument he makes for fighting is entirely the arguments made since the game was first played while he also takes the opposite side in stating why fighting is a rather ridiculous part of the game on the whole. He doesn't approve or condemn the act of fighting on skates, but he does swing the pendulum over to the players who do so and the long-term health of those players before bringing it back to how we, as fans, condemn assault but cheer for hockey fights. He writes,

The point is, all of pro sports is an ethical risk. All of it is, arguably, an uneasy relationship between what one believes and exemptions one makes for one's favourite athletes. Competitiveness may not be a sin, but it is hardly a virtue either, and it, along with greed and pride and vanity and tribalism, is not just on display in pretty much any professional sport in the world, but is a defining aspect of sports. An athlete needs not just the will to win, but the overwhelming desire to. This is what we expect of them, what we require of them. We require them to be greedy on our behalf, because we want them to win as much as they can. We require them to be proud and to honour their sweater, and we hold particularly dear the team members capable of moments of individual brilliance. We require them to sacrifice their bodies for the glory of our neighbourhoods.

That paragraph illustrates the brilliance of Jay Baruchel as he describes the exact dichotomy of how fans cheer for a guy throwing and taking punches on the ice, but will condemn a guy doing the same thing in the street. It describes entirely what it is to be a fan of any team in any sport and how we often let our fan biases override the logic and sensibility we normally possess when it comes to everyday life. It might be the most perfect paragraph of why we love sports as a society, but struggle with right and wrong when our sporting heroes falter. Born Into It likely won't make it onto any school curriculum reading lists or any list connected to Oprah's Book Club, but that's entirely why this book should be read. Born Into It won't make you question reality or prompt you to pick up a sign and join a protest. It's literally one man's quest to explain his undying fandom for hockey's most storied team. Perhaps it will make you examine your own fandom as well, but whatever the case Jay Baruchel has penned an outstanding book that takes you into the inner workings of his love for the Montreal Canadiens. It was a highly enjoyable read about a man for whom I have the utmost respect, and this makes Born Into It an easy candidate to receive the Teebz's Book Club Seal of Approval! You can find Born Into It at most bookstores and libraries, but I caution parents that this book has a lot of R-rated language in it. I'd recommend this book for adult readers unless you're comfortable with your younger readers absorbing a large quantity of words they likely shouldn't be using. If you're a fan of any sports team and have always had questions as to why you fell in love with them, Born Into It is a good way to take a step back and examine your own fandom! Until next time, keep your sticks on the ice! from Sports News http://hockey-blog-in-canada.blogspot.com/2019/01/tbc-born-into-it.html

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Review: Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin (ARC)

Review: Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin (ARC)

Published: 2018 By: HarperAvenue Source: Publisher Format: Paperback ISBN:  9781443455848

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I’m just going to get this off my chest now: I am so in love with this book! I love the happy ending. I love the characters. I love it. I love it. I. Love. It. Okay… I’m ready to talk about this.

First off, the whole book was supposed to be a loosely-rendered South Asian/Canadian version of Pride…

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Book of Sands by Karim Alrawi

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This powerful, lyrical novel of the endurance of love is set amid the upheaval of the Arab Spring and the brutal repression of a totalitarian regime. Tarek, a young father, watches as the city he lives in is mired in protests, hemmed in by barricades and strangely inundated by great flocks of birds. Facing the threat of police arrest, he flees with his nine-year-old daughter, Neda. He is forced to leave behind his pregnant wife, Mona, under the watchful eye of Omar, her deeply troubled and religious brother. Compounding the difficulties of these times, babies refuse to be born and mothers stop giving birth.

As Tarek and Nada journey through villages razed by conflict towards a mountain refuge, they meet with fellow travellers from Tarek’s past and his time as a political prisoner. The reunion reveals secrets that Tarek must come to terms with for his own and Neda’s sake. Ultimately, he must decide where this journey will take them and if he will ever be able to return home again.

In the tradition of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight's Children and Orhan Pamuk’s Snow, debut novelist Karim Alrawi deftly weaves an atmospheric, multi-layered story of intimate lives, informed by recent events and heightened by touches of magic realism, set against the wider canvas of historic events.

Published in 2015.

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Not Only a Smooth and Lyrical Read but an Enlightening One as well | Review of "Dragon Springs Road" by Janie Chang (2017) HarperAvenue

Not Only a Smooth and Lyrical Read but an Enlightening One as well | Review of “Dragon Springs Road” by Janie Chang (2017) HarperAvenue

Many of us who read appreciate a story line that is smooth and lyrical. We enjoy slipping into a narrative that seems to float us away from our reality to another world. And it takes a certain type of writer who has that skill. Fans of Janie Chang realized she had that ability to do that with her first novel, and they eagerly awaited her second book. Now Dragon Springs Road has been released,…

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A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone (ARC Review)

Title: A Merry Little Meet Cute Author: Julie Murphy, Sierra Simon Type: Fiction Genre: Adult, Contemporary, Romance Publisher: Avon Date published: September 20, 2022 This post is sponsored. A complimentary digital copy of this book was kindly provided by HarperCollins Canada in exchange for an honest review. Bee Hobbes (aka Bianca Von Honey) has a successful career as a plus-size adult film…