Canadian Books reviewed in 2017: 12/20/17

Since 2009, I've been a participant in the Canadian books challenge. That was the year my niece was born. She and her brother are Canadian (and their parents are now naturalized citizens). I figured one thing I could do to be a good, albiet, distant aunt, was to learn about her country through their books. I do run a book blog, after all.

Now besides the four of them, my in-laws are also in the process of moving to Canada to live their full time. That won't happen this year, but it probably will by 2019. With now half of my immediate family living up there, Canadian books have become a way of life for my reading (along with following the news and social media happenings too).

This summer I realized these books were so much a part of my daily reading, that I could easily commit to reviewing a Canadian book once a week. So that's what I started to do, starting in August. I have reviews planned through the first week of March.

December

• From Ant to Eagle by Alex Lyttle
• Boundless by Jillian Tamaki
• Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess by Shari Green

November

• We Are the Engineers by Angela Melick
• The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue
• Black Hammer Volume 1: Secret Origins by Jeff Lemire
• Mrs. Saint and the Defectives by Julie Lawson Timmer

October

• All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
• Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali
• The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
• Under the Dragon's Tail by Maureen Jennings
• The Fog by Kyo Maclear

September

• I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
• Carson Crosses Canada by Linda Bailey
• A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett

August

• D4VE by Ryan Ferrier
• Cadillac Couches by Sophie B. Watson
• Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin
• Roughneck by Jeff Lemire
• Us Conductors by Sean Michaels

July

• Triangle by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen
• Ten Things We Did by Sarah Mlynowski
• Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel

June

• Storm by Amanda Sun
• Showing Off by Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle, and Emily Jenkins

May

• The Stone Heart by Faith Erin Hicks
• This Land I Love: Waterloo County by Carl Hiebert

April

• Kitchener Waterloo: A Guidebook from Memory by Robert Motum
• Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd by Alan Bradley

March

• The Specific Ocean by Kyo Maclear
• Except the Dying by Maureen Johnson
• Clover's Luck by Kallie George
• Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint
• City of the Lost by Kelley Armstrong
• We Found A Hat by Jon Klassen

February

None

January

• Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation by Kyo Maclear

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