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she/her…retired educator in Toronto, Canada Books, nature, Raptors, knitting… I write about books at www.instagram.com/time4reading with a focus on literary fiction, translated fiction, book prizes, CanLit, and nature non-fiction.
How about different streetcar numbers for food from those neighbourhoods
@bluejays.com Ahem, Toronto has ferries too, just saying
Seems like a good time to share pics from our visit to Wiarton this past September…
As always, a really intriguing longlist from @carolshieldsprize.bsky.social Eager to get to know more about these books.
I pronounce it tinn-eye-tus… but it did make me look this up:
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Big #darkTO outage in the east end of the city (not me). Some very cool photos of the vast swathes of darkness in this reddit thread:
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That’s rough
Interesting article… my tinnitus started the same day as my first bout of COVID began. Throw in the disrupted sleep of menopause and it makes sense to me that they could be related.
“The fact that supervisors have not found easy savings is a sign, critics say, that the problem is not about how boards have been spending, but about their revenue,” writes @wencyleung.bsky.social. thelocal.to/ontario-scho...
Two days to go…
The 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist will be revealed at 2pm GMT this Wednesday 4 March.
Will we be seeing you there?
#WomensPrize #WomensPrizeforFiction
Taiwan Travelogue! What a great read about the slipperiness of language and translation, the insidiousness of colonisation.
Ooo timely…
Also, houses won’t become available for families when places like this don’t exist. People will stay in their homes long after kids are gone because they don’t have smaller, low-maintenance options to age in place in their communities.
I enjoyed both of those! And yes, the best thing about prize lists for me is being nudged towards reading things I mightn’t have known about or chosen on my own. It’s wholly changed my reading
It’s a really interesting list (to me)! What are you most excited to read?
I’ve long assumed it has nothing to do with the actual Science Centre.
A. Who wants the land/site that it sits on?
B. Who’s going to benefit from it being in the new location?
C. Probably we’ll find out it’s both in the end.
Perfect! I found TRS a surprisingly quick read despite its length (I think my edition was under 600 pages). If the narration is good, it would work well on audio.
I’ve long appreciated being in between the understated efficient use of space of the Pape branch and the rather grand Riverdale branch which commands its street corner.
Mine too!
Mostly, I just got lucky because they were books I read because I was just interested in them. The exception is We are Green and Trembling…knowing it had won the NBA and had a good chance definitely influenced my picking it up
And where are you starting?
I’ve read four going in which is unexpected but great. I’m reading Taiwan Travelogue now.
Aiming to fill up this tracker over the next few weeks. At first glance, I think I’m going to really enjoy this International Booker longlist.
So glad I searched “International Booker” to find other people like me
I’m usually a fan of winter but, yeah, this
From witchcraft to warfare, trauma to transformation, resilience to cruelty, the longlist for the International Booker Prize 2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies, shines a light on a vast range of experiences.
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I’m very excited about this longlist! I’ve read four (The Remembered Soldier, The Director, The Wax Child, and We Are Green and Trembling) and I am definitely aiming to read the rest.
I’m ecstatic!!
Happy International Booker longlist day to all who celebrate and especially to @thebookerprizes.com
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