One of my fav things to do is to read in a cafe, poring over newspapers. These days I only buy The Edge, which is a weekly business paper.

#Newspapers #Coffee #weekendreads

Sharing #goodreads today on my blog:
🌿To Be A Queen 👑 by Annie Whitehead @anniehistory.bsky.social https://alluringcreations.co.za/wp/to-be-a-queen-by-annie-whitehead-forged-in-duty/
Is resilience something we possess… or something we are forced to become?

#weekendreads #historicalfiction #ReadingNook #BookLove

Is resilience something we possess… or something we are forced to become? #BookReview #weekendreads #goodreads #BookLove

https://alluringcreations.co.za/wp/to-be-a-queen-by-annie-whitehead-forged-in-duty/

“An era of glaring inequality was also a golden age of graft. Networks of scams and fraud were entrenching themselves in every aspect of life in today’s India and beyond.”

Looking for interesting weekend reads? This excerpt will offer you a glimpse into the operation of the ever-increasing cyber scams around all of us:

https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/india-scams-scamlands
#TechNews #weekendreads

We’ve got another one from Napanee Correspondent Brenda Hogg. I hope you enjoy reason number seven Greater Napanee is greater: The Napanee River.

countyfencemagazine.com/napanee-river/

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#FridayReads #WeekendReads
Two Songs by Russell Thornton (Harbour Publishing) https://harbourpublishing.com/products/9781998526574
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (Knopf Canada) https://www.npr.org/2025/10/03/nx-s1-5560818/the-loneliness-of-sonia-and-sunny-review-kiran-desai

+ waiting in the wings:

A Place For People Like Us by Danila Botha (Guernica Editions) https://guernicaeditions.com/products/a-place-for-people-like-us
The Instrument Must Not Matter by Christine Fischer Guy (Wolsak & Wynn) https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the-instrument-must-not-matter
Crossing Into Canada, edited by Alison Mountz (University of Alberta Press) https://ualbertapress.ca/9781772128284/crossing-into-canada/

This week Jules Octavian reflects on his life and thinks about his own mortality.

https://countyfencemagazine.com/the-fountain-of-youth/

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Gold Diggers & Trophy Wives by Rachael Boardman, the latest in the feud between Brenda and Rachael.

https://countyfencemagazine.com/gold-diggers-trophy-wives/

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I still like ebooks as a format for certain scenarios, but have been getting back to more physical books for the last couple years

The way multiple family members have shared and passed this book around the last few weeks is hard to beat. Even just having it sitting around the house prompts questions of "where are you at" or "what did you think of... "

Aspects of a artifact I barely realized I missed with ebooks

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