Ladislara
A blog as diverse as my life has been
Tag: North America
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Book Review: Dear Life
Nobel winner Alice Munro shares snippets of life in rural Canada in the 1940s
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Book Review: Braving the Wilderness
Brené Brown on how to belong to yourself and others in a hyper-polarized era
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6 Degrees of Separation – From Ireland to Canada
Linking books from Ireland to Australia to Serbia to Chile to China to Canada and back to Ireland
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Books from September (Stacking the Shelves)
Some books that found their way to my bookcase in September
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Weekly Opening Lines – Oct 5th
From Dear Life, by Alice Munro: “Once Peter had brought her suitcase on board…”
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Weekly Opening Lines – Sep 28th
From Braving the Wilderness, by Brené Brown: “When I start writing, I inevitably feel myself swallowed by fear. And it’s especially true when…”
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Books on My Fall 2024 To-Read List (TTT)
A bookish meme about my reading aspirations for this Autumn
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Book Review: A Grandmother Begins the Story
A story about Indigenous heritage, told by multiple voices – and some issues with the Indigenous literature I have access to
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Book Review: Daughter
A dark novel about living in the shadows of fame and manipulation
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Book Review: What’s Our Problem? A Self-Help Book for Societies
Tim Urban uses biology and funny drawings to explain why we are so polarized
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