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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

It's been a whirlwind of bookstore signings, interviews and readings for the past month with one more reading this Saturday in Summerland, BC at the Okanagan Regional Library. I believe there's a concert afterwards and lots of fun activities so should be a great day! #booksky #CanLit #Summerland

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

February might have been a short month but was full of lots of good books. One from the upcoming Canada Reads list, a couple of short story collections and some good novels that took me to Haiti, Uganda, a farm in the US, a reserve in Canada and more. #writingcommunity #booksky #booksread

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Pinch me! That's my debut novel The Art of Getting Lost and Found on the shelf beside the legendary Jane Urquhart!!! Me! Beside Urquhart! Release date isn't until March 10th but the book has been spotted in stores across Canada already. Including @MosaicBooks #Canlit #booksky #writingcommunity

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Super excited! My debut novel has arrived at the publisher's EARLY!!! They sent me this photo! I can't wait to hold it in my hands. Thank you @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social for being so great to work with & for creating such a beautiful cover! Release date March 10th. #booksky #debutnovel #CanLit

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Forgot to post this yesterday, but here's the books I read in January 2026. Favourite book was Sally Rooney's Normal People. Liked it so much I read a second one of hers. Both are literary fiction that plays upon the difference between what we say and what we wish we could say. #booksky #booksread

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

It was not easy to narrow down from 70+, but here are my 15 favourite reads of 2025. Most of them are #CanLit - 3 of them by Emma Hooper! Still think Tiger should have won the #Gillerprize Had a hard time choosing which Zadie Smith book to include. #booksky #books #booksread2025 #booksread

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I forgot to post my #booksread in December 2025! Loved the honesty and vulnerability of Toews, the plot in Bent's novel and the characters in Quinn's. #booksky

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

A strange month of reading. Reread The Scarlet Letter then Hester in Sunlight--more like a prose poem, about Hawthorne's book; a very dense read. Adored Zadie Smith's novel Swing Time, really liked Other Worlds and had a good laugh with The Heart Goes Last. #booksky #booksread #booksreadNovember

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Another great month of readings, with two crossed off my TBR list, four from the Giller long list and others that were recommended. Only one DNF: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes and Other Tales from the Crematory. Got to the section on cremating babies and couldn't get take it. #booksky #booksread

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I'm super excited to announce, my novel, The Art of Getting Lost and Found is now available for pre-order from most book retailers, release date March 10/26. This means I can finally share the beautiful cover. #debutnovel #booksky #fiction #CanLit #breakwaterbooks #domesticviolence #mentalhealth

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

My 2nd on the Giller shortlist, this novel picks up steam like, well, like a runaway train that you cannot put down when you're told right at the start that someone with a bomb is boarding the train. Full 5/5 The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue #booksky #writingcommunity #GillerPrize #books #CanLit

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Wow, my first read of this year's Giller long list. Tan captivated me right from the start with his beautiful prose, excellent pacing & recurring use of space/star/constellation metaphors. One brother in a tiger costume, the other a cosmonaut, a starlit bedroom sky...full 5/5 #booksky #gillerprize

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

#booksread in September. Full 5+/5 for Cloud Cuckoo Land and loved The Sisters Brothers. My first Louise Penny book despite not being a mystery fan. Fourteen Days had so much potential but never meshed and I hated the ending. Barkskins @700+ pages was a slog and Sisters of Belfast rated 2/5.

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

August reads included 2 from my longtime TBR pile. Very hard to pick a favourite. Most were Canadian authors. Shrines of Gaiety had me laughing out loud; Help Me Jacques Cousteau, The Beekeeper of Aleppo and The Shipping News had me hugging the books at the end. #booksky #books #reading

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Read some new, some classics, some short stories and some connected short stories. One off my bucket list of classics that could have stayed here... not a huge James Joyce fan, I guess. #booksky #booksread #writingcommunity #readreadread

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Read a ton during June plus 2 audio books. Enjoyed Bel Canto, laughed all the way thru Grand Union, related too well to More or Less Maddy, DNF Dream of a Woman. Favourite book of the month by far was Emma Hooper's Our Homesick Songs. What a brilliant writer! #booksky #books #booksreadinJune #read

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Forgot to post my books read in May. So much good reading. Favourite book of the group was Ellen in Pieces by Caroline Adderson. It's written from several different POV and shows the effects we have on other people's lives. Brilliant book, full 5+/5 #books #booksky #booksreadinMay

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Today is #RedDressDay here in Canada, a day set aside to bring more awareness to missing and murdered indigenous women. As a former victim of both spousal abuse and violent sexual assaults, I am doing what I can to promote awareness in my own way.

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Another month filled with reading. My favourite April read was undoubtedly Do Not Be Afraid of the Sky by Emma Hooper. Absolutely riveted to this story of sisters, set during the age of Christians being fed to the lions. If you haven't discovered Hooper, you need to! #BookSky #writingcommunity

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors No particular order Day 17/20 Beverly Cleary #Booksky 🪐📚👀 #bookchallenge #WomenAuthors #AnyGenre After stumbling my way through Anne of Green Gables, a librarian introduced me to Beezus and Ramona, and The Mouse and the Motorcycle. Cleary cemented my fate to be a reader.

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors No particular order Day 16/20 Emma Hooper #Booksky 🪐📚👀 #bookchallenge #WomenAuthors #AnyGenre #EmmaHooper #CanLit Emma and Otto... was a Canada Reads finalist this year and that's how I discovered this brilliant author.

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

One of my favourite poetry book covers ever, on this book by Francesco Marciuliano. Wishing all you cat people a Happy Caturday #caturday #booksky #writing #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors No particular order Day 15/20 Corrina Chong #Booksky 🪐📚👀 #bookchallenge #WomenAuthors #AnyGenre #CorrinaChong #CanLit If you're a Donna Tartt fan you should check out Corrina Chong's work. She writes with similar dark undertones in rich engaging prose.

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors No particular order Day 14/20 Anne Fleming #Booksky 🪐📚👀 #bookchallenge #WomenAuthors #AnyGenre #AnneFleming #CanLit I was lucky enough to do a 4th year novel writing class with Anne at UBC Okanagan. Curiosities was nominated for this year's Giller Prize

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors No particular order Day 13/20 Gil Adamson #Booksky 🪐📚👀 #bookchallenge #WomenAuthors #AnyGenre #GilAdamson #CanLit Read 1/3 of Ridgerunner not know it was a sequel to Outlander (completely different Gabaldon's timetraveler), stopped and read Outlander then finished. 5/5

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors No particular order Day 12/20 Alix Hawley #Booksky 🪐📚👀 #bookchallenge #WomenAuthors #AnyGenre #AlexHawley #CanLit Loved all three of them. All Truth Not A Lie and My Name is a Knife are about Daniel Boone. Brilliant writer!

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors No particular order Day 11/20 Eleanor Catton #Booksky 🪐📚👀 #bookchallenge #WomenAuthors #AnyGenre #EleanorCatton #CanLit Loved all three of them

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors No particular order Day 10/20 Emily St John Mandel #Booksky 🪐📚👀 #bookchallenge #WomenAuthors #AnyGenre #EmilyStJohnMandel #CanLit Station Eleven was my favourite but loved them all

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors No particular order Day 9/20 Carol Shields #Booksky 🪐📚👀 #bookchallenge #WomenAuthors #AnyGenre #CarolShields #CanLit Loved all of her novels and short story collections but I think Larry's Party and Happenstance were my favourites

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Here's the list of books I read in March 2025. Two were from #CanadaReads2025, most are #CanLit Etta and Otto and Russell and James was my favourite, followed by Moon Road. The Body Artist was delightfully strange and Matrix was the biggest struggle. #BookSky #booksread #bookchallenge

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors No particular order Day 8/20 Donna Tartt #Booksky 🪐📚👀 #bookchallenge #WomenAuthors #AnyGenre #DonnaTartt Loved all three of her novels but The Little Friend was my favourite.

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors No particular order Day 6/20 Heather O'Neill #Booksky 🪐📚👀 #bookchallenge #WomenAuthors #AnyGenre #ZadieSmith I LOVE her dry sense of sit and humour.

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors No particular order Day 6/20 Heather O'Neill #Booksky 🪐📚👀 #bookchallenge #WomenAuthors #AnyGenre #HeatherONeill #CanLit The Lonely Hearts Hotel and The Girl Who Was Saturday Night are my favourites of hers

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors No particular order Day 5/20 Christine Higdon #Booksky 🪐📚👀 #bookchallenge #WomenAuthors #AnyGenre #ChristineHigdon #CanLit Absolutely loved both her novels and can't wait for her next one!

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 20/20 The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub - taught me not to read horror books 🫣 #Book #BookSky 💙📚 #Bookchallenge #StephenKing

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 19/20 The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis - my favourite of the series #Book #BookSky 💙📚 #Bookchallenge #CSLewis

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors No particular order Day 4/20 Jane Urquhart #Booksky 🪐📚👀 #bookchallenge #WomenAuthors #AnyGenre #JaneUrquhart #CanLit Changing Heaven was the first of her novels that I read and have been hooked ever since. Exquisite literary prose, a #Canadian gem!

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors No particular order Day 3/20 #Booksky 🪐📚👀 #bookchallenge #WomenAuthors #AnyGenre #EsiEdugyan #CanLit My favourite of her novels are Washington Black and Half Blood Blues

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 18/20 Swamplandia! by Karen Russell #Book #BookSky 💙📚 #Bookchallenge

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors No particular order Day 2/20 #Booksky 🪐📚👀 #bookchallenge #WomenAuthors #AnyGenre #MargaretAtwood #CanLit My favourite of her novels were Alias Grace, The Handmaid's Tale, Testament, Hagseed, The Penelopiad

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

💙📚20 Favorite Women Authors No particular order Day 1/20 #Booksky 🪐📚👀 #bookchallenge #WomenAuthors #AnyGenre #MiriamToews #CanLit

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 17/20 The History of Love by Nicole Krauss ♥️ #Book #BookSky 💙📚 #Bookchallenge

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 16/20 Brick Lane by Monica Ali - toenails.... more than a decade later, still remember the toe nails #Book #BookSky 💙📚 #Bookchallenge

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 15/20 The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (again, hard to choose only one of her books) #Book #BookSky 💙📚 #Bookchallenge

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 14/20 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte #Book #BookSky 💙📚 #Bookchallenge

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (Again, SO hard to pick just one of her novels!) 13/20 The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand #Book #BookSky 💙📚 #Bookchallenge

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (Again, SO hard to pick just one of her novels!) 12/20 Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill #Book #BookSky 💙📚 #Bookchallenge

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Some great reading in February - two books of short stories and four novels. First time reading Lauren Groff and loved her prose so much, I read two of her books-one of which was a book of short stories. Reviews are on GoodReads #Book #BookSky #BookChallenge #whatiamreadingnow #bookworm #SkyReader

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 11/20 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell #Book #BookSky 💙📚 #Bookchallenge

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Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 10/20 Sweatland by Michael Crummy (Also hard to pick just one of his book - oops, no comment) #Book #BookSky 💙📚 #Bookchallenge

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