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The AlchemistAuthor: Paulo Coehlo
If you love metaphor, this book is for you. It's short, and friends have shared they go back to it again and again.
Two books by Katherena Vermette, Metis author: The Break and The Strangers
Two powerful books about Metis women navigating life in Winnipeg's downtown core. Suggestion: read The Break first, the two novels are connected.
Well, I have more than one! If I think about the best books I've read in the last year or so, these top picks come to mind:
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice - a fast-paced, chilling tale that as you read it, you can't help but think, this should become a Netflix series! But also, it's filled with beautiful depictions of family life and what holding on to core values as the world falls apart can look like.
An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace by Tamar Adler completely changed (for the better!) my relationship with having to make dinner for a family of four every darn day. It's also so beautifully written. When cooking meets poetry meets philosophy, it's magic!
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (lead singer of Japanese Breakfast) - this memoir of family and loss and food and culture is incredible. Not a single word is out of place. I read it twice back-to-back; once for the story and the second time to see how she constructed it. Alas, I could not unlock its secret because I am just not that talented a writer.
Eleutheria by Allegra Hyde - a novel about a group of climate change activists who start a sort of utopian commune that goes really, really wrong. That summary does not really do it justice but it's funny and tragic and wise all at once.
I have more like Detransition, Baby and Trust but will this now because I need to get back to marking ;)
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura is a seven-chapter treatise on the importance of tea in Japanese society from its earliest history. Originally published in English in 1906 to facilitate understanding between the Japanese and Westerners.
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