Opinion by Tanya Talaga
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canada-prison-librarians-inmates-rehabilitation-education/

#readsWellWith Bezzle by @pluralistic

"SCAR did away with the prison library, but they replaced it with an electronic library, containing thousands of titles, each one just a third more than Amazon's price for the same book."

By threatening to get rid of prison librarians, Canada is not going by the book

Eliminating educational programs and the jobs of federal prison librarians hollows out potential rehabilitation services – not to mention Canada’s humanity

The Globe and Mail
Alternative Service Work Camps (Canada) - GAMEO

@JD_Cunningham
Beautiful. Marked to-read.

#readswellwith

Evening Chorus by Helen Humphries
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/526cb524-8e98-4d12-9351-e38d300bd520

Also

Listening to British Nature: Wartime, Radio & Modern Life, 1914–1945
https://www.michael-guida.com/the-book

@bookgaga

The Evening Chorus by Helen Humphreys

"The Evening Chorus serenades people brutally marked by war, yet enduring to live -- and relish -...

#FridayReads (... segueing into #weekendreads) Animal Life by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, translated by Brian Fitzgibbon (Pushkin Press) https://bit.ly/3Nf7eiK, which #readswellwith (h/t @danamcfarland!) Diagnosing Minor Illness in Children by Kerry Ryan (Frontenac House) https://bit.ly/3GJLgR2
Book Review: Animal Life by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

As a storm heads towards the city, a midwife in Reykavik finds a stash of letters and manuscripts left behind by her grandaunt, and in going through them rediscovers the woman she remembers in Auðu…

Nut Press
@danamcfarland I was just thinking about what a great and under-utilized hashtag #readswellwith is. I usually have prose and poetry on the go at the same time and was just thinking the current reading pair could be joined with this hashtag, so I should post about that, eh?

This was good listening at 4 am.

Insomnia: A Cultural History, from CBC's Ideas:
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/15956103-insomnia-a-cultural-history

#readswellwith
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/12/style/segmented-sleep.html
"...returning to sleep patterns from the Middle Ages isn’t for everyone"

and

At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past by A. Roger Ekirch

Insomnia: A Cultural History | Ideas with Nahlah Ayed | Live Radio | CBC Listen

Scholar Katie Hunt ties together lines of Romantic era poetry with scientific research on sleep... to reveal how our concept of insomnia evolved, and how the poems still have the power to open our minds.

CBC Listen

Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell (Riverhead Books) #readswellwith But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves. by Conyer Clayton (Anvil Press)

Turns out my current reading (I usually have prose and poetry on the go at the same time) are very complementary. Schweblin's stories and Clayton's poems are placed in and emerge from dream-like states and are surreal, menacing, haunting and compelling. #FridayReads #WeekendReads

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/22/small-things-like-these-by-claire-keegan-between-happiness-and-ruin) #ReadsWellWith Dubliners by James Joyce (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubliners)

... because @danamcfarland, we have to start using that hashtag here, don't you think?

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan – between happiness and ruin

In this tender novel by the renowned short-story writer, a father confronts the truth of one of Ireland’s infamous Magdalene laundries

The Guardian