Here's what we're reading in June, 2015....

Kicking Ass in Canadian Politics by Warren Kinsella. A bit dated, but topical with the election coming up.

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies. I've never read anything by him, so now is the time to fix that.

Being swept away by Ross Poldark. Looking forward to the new TV series.

Nickelini: Fifth Business was my introduction to Canadian literature. I remember reading it on the train to and from work in London (UK) and really enjoying it. I struggled through book 2 and never even picked up the third one.

I am back to reading Middlemarch while I contemplate my next "easy" read.

I just read Middlemarch this year, too.

I'm starting my latest LTER book, Are You Seeing Me? by Darren Groth

I'm trying the "One Library Thing One Book" event, so am reading The Night Watch by Sarah Waters.

I don't want to get ahead of the group, so I'm also reading Harvest by Jim Crace for a book club.

I just finished Outrage and started Black Skies by Arnaldur Indridson.

I'm reading Things a Woman Wants to Know: An Edwardian Housewife's Guide to Life.

The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812 by Andrew Lambert

Excellent read on the naval war between Britain and America, but he completely glosses over the war on the Great Lakes. Other than that it's a fantastic (and dare I say, seminal) book about the topic at hand.

I'm reading Projection: Encounters with my Runaway Mother, a memoir by Canadian Priscila Uppal.

I plowed through Projection, and loved it! Now I'm on to Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Field of Blood by Denise Mina

I am now reading We are all made of glue.

I'm starting The Good Father by Noah Hawley.

ETA: Finished The Good Father this morning. Wow! A great book.

Now I'm reading a memoir, Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History by Edmund Metatawabin, who I used to work with.

I'm re-reading The Corrections since I am now more intimately connected to Alfred's 'affliction'.

I'm reading The Same Sea by Amos Oz.

I'm reading The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman.

Just finished The Weilmoringle kid and started One step Behind.

The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty. Fun, exotic.

Finally finished Fifth Business by Robertson Davies. I think I must be off reading or something, because even though the language was easy and it was only 252 pages, it still took me three weeks to read. Sigh.

I'm reading a short book, We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; and A Crazy Canadian Public Servant Eh? by Paul Poutine.

A gripping crime fiction series: The Soul of Discretion by Susan Hill.

I'm trying to read Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain by Judith Flanders who wrote the terrifically entertaining The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbrth to Deathbed (I know it may not sound thrilling but it was full of nitty-gritty details of day-to-day life culled from women's diaries and letters). However it's very dry and at the same time I've taken a whole load of amazing manga & graphic novels out of the library, which are like pastries to the Flander's book All-Bran Buds.

I'm reading The World by Bill Gaston

I taking back everything I said about the dryness of Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain! After the first chapter - on the Great Exhibition - it got down to the fascinating day-to-day stuff, eg the famous Wedgewood was a prolific letter-writer but couldn't spell worth beans!

I'm having trouble reading these days, but finished The Archivist by Martha Cooley, which explored the aftermath of the Holocaust.

I'm having trouble reading these days too. Halfway through Black Raven and struggling, although it's not a bad book. Decided to reread Winnie the Pooh as a childhood favourite and hoping it inspires me to read more. Even struggling with that little book.

Almost finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Apart from wanting my kids to stop leaving food on their plates I have yet to get much from the book.

I loved The Road! but then I've loved post-apocalyptic books since my discovery of The Day of the Triffids as a kid (age 10,12?).

Waterland by Graham Swift