Rebecca interviews author Marion Agnew. Marion is a dual US/Canadian citizen, who moved north mid-life, after a career in technical writing and editing. MAKING UP THE GODS (Latitude 46, Sudbury, 2023) is her first novel. Her previous book, REVERBERATIONS: A DAUGHTER’S MEDITATIONS ON ALZHEIMER’S (Signature Editions, Winnipeg, 2019) was shortlisted for the Louise de Kiriline Lawrence award for nonfiction. She lives on the Lake Superior shoreline, a grateful guest in Robinson-Superior Treaty territory, home of the Anishinaabe (Fort William First Nation) and Metis peoples.

https://www.marionagnew.com/ (includes citations to Marion's fiction and essays, short and collected)

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marionagnew/

Currently reading:

Fuse; Rebellion Box; Widow Fantasies by Hollay Ghadery

If Sylvie Had Nine Lives by Leona Theis

Rebecca and Tara provide an update on their 2024 goals!

Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):

• Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America by Matika Wilbur
• 2024 Inclusive Picture Book Read Along Challenge @readingwithredandthemagpie
• My Ántonia by Willa Cather
• The Street by Ann Petry
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
• The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
• Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
• The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
• My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
• February by Lisa Moore

Tara (@onabranchreads):

• The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan
• Merlin bird ID app

2023 Giller Books:

• Away from the Dead by David Bergen
• Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
• Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
• The Double Life of Benson Yu by Kevin Chong
• We Meant Well by Erum Shazia Hasan
• The Island: Stories by Dionne Irving
• Wait Softly Brother by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
• Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah Willis

Helen Humphreys:

• The Lost Garden
• The Frozen Thames
• Followed by the Lark
• Leaving Earth

Currently reading:

• I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
• All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

Rebecca and Tara share their latest reads!

Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):

• The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine by Ricardo Nuila
• The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
• Autokrator by Emily A. Weedon
• The Street by Ann Petry
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
• Small Acts of Courage: A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy by Ali Velshi

Tara (@onabranchreads):

• The Bones of Ruin by Sarah Raughley
• Indian Burial Ground; Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
• The Shining; Salem's Lot by Stephen King
• The Residence; The Damned by Andrew Pyper
• Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
• Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest by Ariel Gordon