Celebrate Canada Day with these 90+ Canadian romance novels!
Fill your ereader and binge the great white north, eh?
Which two Jean Oram books are in this promo? Falling for the Movie Star, which is set in Ontario. And my new release Fairy Godmothers Aren’t Cheap, which is set in Alberta.
Happy reading!
P.S. What do you see in a Canadian read? Fun stuff! Here are a few things from the glossary of Canadianocity in Fairy Godmothers Aren’t Cheap.
Loonie: One dollar coin. Named for the loon (water bird) on it. Naturally, we call our two-dollar coin a toonie even though it has polar bears on it.
Bottle picking: In Canada, provinces pay for returned, empty drink containers so they can be recycled. Picking bottles/cans that have been tossed out of vehicles (bad!) can be collected and returned for a refund between ten and twenty-five cents each (good!). Prices depend on the container.
CBC: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Publicly funded television and radio programming that you could argue is the heart of Canada. Well, if you’re old. Not sure the young ’uns have discovered just how hilarious some of the comedy is. Or maybe they’re just too young to get the jokes. (I recommend The Debaters—you can listen to it in podcast format.)
Curling: A sport where two teams of four compete. Where? On a sheet of ice, that’s skinny and long with a bullseye on each end of the ice. You “throw” a rock (kind of shove it) and let it glide down to the other end, hoping it will stop in the centre of the rings and the other team won’t knock it out during their turn. Your team can “hurry hard” (sweep hard and fast) with brooms to melt a thin layer of ice in front of the rock to help it glide faster and further. A popular sport in small towns, probably because a bar is often attached to the ice. What doesn’t make you too tipsy to stand on the ice, just makes you a better curler.
