Rebecca reveals her 2025 secret reading goal to Tara! And she and Tara offer their best reading recommendations for the holiday season!

Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):

• Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia #4) by C.S. Lewis
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo
• An English Murder by Cyril Hare
• A Holiday By Gaslight: A Victorian Christmas Novella by Mimi Matthews
• Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan Henry

Tara (@onabranchreads):

• Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo
• The Christmas Jigsaw Murders by Alexandra Benedict
• Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
• A Holly Jolly Diwali by Sonya Lalli
• The Kingdom of Sweets by Erika Johansen
• Grace & Henry's Holiday Movie Marathon by Matthew Norman
• The Family Game by Catherine Steadman
• Yours for the Season by Uzma Jalaluddin
• Small Things Like These by Claire Foster
• The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures by Sarah Clegg

If you have any comments or suggestions that you would like to share with Rebecca and Tara or you are interested in joining their monthly virtual book chat, please email them at craspod2019@gmail.com

Rebecca is excited to chat with professional explorer Adam Shoalts about his latest book, Vanished Beyond the Map: The Mystery of Lost Explorer Hubert Darrell.

https://adamshoalts.com/literature/:

• Voted by over 200 Independent Bookstores as one of the “Must Read Books” of the Year (Canadian Independent Booksellers Association)
• Globe and Mail #1 National Bestseller/Toronto Star #1 National Bestseller
• CBC #1 National Bestseller

"In 1910, legendary explorer Hubert Darrell vanished in the uncharted wilderness of the Northwest Territories. A prospector who had been swept up in the Klondike Gold Rush, Darrell later made his name as a wanderer who ventured where few others dared. Famed for his solo journeys, contemporaries regarded Darrell as the hardiest explorer of his day. While his disappearance sparked headlines, soon Darrell’s name would also vanish from history, just as surely as he had in the wild.

Yet Darrell left behind a trail of letters, journals, and hand-drawn maps. With these faded clues, Adam Shoalts retraces Darrell’s forgotten routes through the wilderness, searching for cabin ruins and old campsites. Part detective story, part biography, and part first-person adventure narrative, Vanished Beyond the Map combines expeditions with historical research to solve one of exploration history’s enduring cold cases—the mystery of Hubert Darrell."

Public Events: https://adamshoalts.com/upcoming-book-events/

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

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@adamshoalts

Rebecca and Tara return after a two-month hiatus and are ready to share the best of their recent reads!

Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):

• My Life: Growing Up Native in America edited by IllumiNative
• The Horse and His Boy (The Chronicles of Narnia #3) by C.S. Lewis
• The Road to Heaven (Patrick Bird Mystery #1) by Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson
• Mad Dog and the Sea Dragon by Lisa de Nikolits
• Foster by Claire Keegan
• Vanished Beyond the Map: The Mystery of Lost Explorer Hubert Darrell

Tara (@onabranchreads):

• Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach
• The Whistler by Nick Medina
• As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories edited by Terese Mason Pierre
• Days of Feasting and Rejoicing by David Bergen
• Wolk, Moon, Dog: A Novel by Thomas Wharton
• The Pugilist and the Sailor by Nadia Ragbar
• The Upending of Wendall Forbes; The Undertaking of Billy Buffone by David Giuliano
• Machine Without Horses by Helen Humphreys

If you have any comments or suggestions that you would like to share with Rebecca and Tara or you are interested in joining their monthly virtual book chat, please email them at craspod2019@gmail.com