Harmony Reads - Ep. 13 - It's Okay to Quit a Book

[@carinanderson8239]

The last airbender was created by a couple of Americans (who are Anime fans) for Nickelodeon. I used to work at Nickelodeon, and Disney, and can tell you that despite who our target audience is, we who work on the shows are also trying to entertain ourselves. So as an adult watching with your kids, if you are entertained, then we did our job well. 🙂

[@elaineenstone6834]

Interesting as always and so entertaining. I love the way Simone just continues to knit. 🇬🇧

[@beatrizpena4565]

Thank you ladies! I really enjoy the readings videos, in awe at how much you do. Just love it.

[@lyndaannibal8990]

I always enjoy listening to you three lovely ladies. Thank you for doing this. It’s also amazing and mesmerizing to watch Simone knit while the three of you discuss books.

[@goswamigeeta]

Enjoyed your reading session with interpretation and reaction. As a retired English language-literature teacher ,lots of appreciation for all of you. Waiting for your next episode.

[@diondalton5419]

Absolutely beautiful, watching land and sea and in ❤ I'm from Newfoundland but live in Edmonton, peace and love from the POLAR VORTEX 🥶

[@anneb.8633]

Mesmerized admiration watching Simone knit without looking!

[@deniseflaherty372]

Oh me too…. How the heck does she do that?

[@lindadaley7469]

I have even slowed down the videos and I still can't figure out how she knits. And I have been watching her for years!

[@lizfendley5776]

Fun discussion this week! Thanks! Yes Betsy, I loved Annabel, and you've prompted me to start her story about travelling through the NW Passage, Boundless. Glad you're enjoying Canadian authors - we're blessed by soooo many great ones. I'm with you Kim, on New Years Eve. We're in Vancouver, and celebrated with our daughter in Portapique, then had a nice early bed! Happy New Year to all of you.

[@MsMegil]

Simone is doing colour work without looking! I’ll bet you knit and read at the same time too. Very much a fun episode.

[@nicolelafontaine1720]

I love the humour and complicity in your friendship.

[@teeflemming9893]

I also missed the New Year’s Eve broadcast out of Halifax. I live in the central time zone but am from NS so love to watch it. I found out the next day the concert was broadcast live on Facebook! I never would have thought to look there.

[@judycleland9087]

I love Canadian Authors

[@katrinalevin4064]

I read Moby Dick in a college American Literature seminar. I picked out a copy to read with amazing woodcut illustrations every chapter. My classmates scoffed at me until we were a few chapters in. Then they always asked to see the illustration each chapter, it kept us going through all the grime and obsessive detail of the book. Good for you for trying it.

[@anaouzounian1557]

I read Moby Dick in high school and loved it. I read it again a couple of years ago and loved it even more. The writing is so evocative and transports me to another time and place. Now I might have to read it again.

[@judycleland9087]

Totally enjoying Rick Mercers book The Road Years.

[@debmullis4087]

Haha - I’m using my luggage tag from the Fibre Festival for a bookmark also Betsy!! I’ve never really read much Agatha Christie so I’m committed to reading at least the first three Poirot books. On the first, Mysterious Affair at Styles now - luggage tag at Chapter 5 😁

[@diane983]

A few years ago, my new year's "project" (you cannot break a project!!), I read only books by Canadian authors. I enjoyed so much that the following year I read only books by Canadian women. Kathleen Winter's Annabelle was included in that "project". I heard someone once say that Canada treats its authors like rock stars, and rightly so.

[@sandrachilds7229]

Enjoy so much Harmony Reads. For pure escapism , may I suggest "Legends and Lattes". I very well written feel good fable with the main character, an orca who was a mercenary , opens up a coffee shop.

[@ApplesandPeanutButter]

My husband and I watched Vera (I have also read them). Now any time we watch a mystery show that is dark, or ends on a downer, we look at each other and say, "This one was almost a Vera." 😂

[@loriflaglor5686]

I remember the “white” chapter! Though it did give me an appreciation for the author’s powers of observation and his ability to appreciate the small things in life. There’s a lesson there. 😉 And I sooooo choose a book by its cover!

[@catnapper3923]

This was a fun episode - I learned lots of things! Have to look up Rick Mercer- and Kim: do you like the X Files? Scully’s dog is named Queequeg, so I suppose a parallel is drawn between hunting down Aliens and hunting down white whales. The truth is out there. Xx

[@cynthiabroadbent3836]

Thanks for the book discussion! My quarterly book this year for Jan-March is (chosen for a bookclub I'm in) is Becoming Better Grown-Ups: Rediscovering What Matters and Remembering How to Fly by Brad Montague.

[@glendabathgate4036]

Simone s fingers never stop🤣

[@AbbyAlexa-yc4vw]

I love your guys' channel, I just stumbled across it! My Aunt gave me a giftcard to your online store for my birthday so I bought the Huges shawl kit! I'm so excited to make it!!

[@lynntimmer1620]

My book group had a delightful discussion yesterday about the book, Someone Else's Shoes by JoJo Moyes. Definitely not a heavy story but fun characters. We agreed that it started a bit slow but was worth the continued reading. Have a cozy week!

[@bags-by-carol]

Another wonderful episode - I love the chats that are about how/why you read as much as the book discussions. I agree with Simone as I am an avid mystery reader and used to be able to read much more intense violence, but as I’ve aged, not so much and honestly I moved to cozy mysteries, which are really Hallmark light. I loved Vera and any of the BBC shows and while they are heavy, they are more palatable for me than US crime shows - which I think have a lot of gratuitous violence scenes. About Moby Dick - yup - part of the old, white man canon that I was happy to shift away from some when I was in college studying English Lit in the mid-80s.

[@sandracroley9784]

I'm just starting to read Louise Penny books, I think I'm on the third one now...I'm trying to get used to audio books. I have one of Rick Mercer's to listen to next, and I'm really looking forward to it 😊

[@anaouzounian1557]

I love all the Gamache books and eagerly await each new book.

[@starrcookson]

CBC had announced they weren’t doing a count down show - I think they said due to cost cutting.

[@kathylynch4604]

I’m with you, Kim. Moby Dick what is required reading in high school. I didn’t finish it, causing me to lose points on my grade but it was so horribly graphic and mostly boring, but I just couldn’t get through it.

[@esthervangorder3983]

I finished Jann Arden's novel "The Bittlemores" in three days. I highly recommend it. Part way through "The Berry Pickers" by Amanda Peters which is excellent

[@deniseengel1451]

It’s okay not to read a book you don’t like. I belong to a book club and at our last discussion, four out of six people couldn’t/didn’t want to finish the book.

[@ApplesandPeanutButter]

Don't you just hate it when publishers replace the original book cover for a picture from the movie/tv series??? Only books I know I will reread earn a spot on my bookshelves.