Matthew Griffin

We are cruising in the fjords; today in Skjolden I tried brunost for the first time and have already figured out where to source it back home. Olden and then Aalesund, before heading over to Iceland.

@lukestark.bsky.social Could you please tell your beloved that I’ve fallen in love with Norge? Takk! 🇳🇴

I would not have come to that realization. Thank you! (Also, have you read Benjamin’s memoir? It made me happy)

Picture of the harrowing of Hell, with the caption “That’s a nice Hell you’ve got, there. It would be a shame if someone…harrowed it.”

Annual #holysaturday image share

One of Canada’s sagest public figures, Bob Rae is absolutely correct. We are now in the fight of our lives, and not just Canada. What’s left of the free world.

I don’t have good ideas for @helenzaltzman.bsky.social‘s conjectured Roller Derby name, but it seems like “Rolly Mann” is just sitting there for @ollymann.bsky.social
Grateful “Answer Me This” podcast is back!

Photo of the novel _The Verifiers_ by Jane Pek.

Pek’s novel follows Claudia Lin as she starts working for a company that, well, verifies the truth of what’s shared on online dating profiles. Soon she’s trying to unpack a deeper mystery. Light but not slight, it’s a deeply fun read! Thanks to @maris.bsky.social ‘s Substack for the recommendation.

@jessebrown.bsky.social Thanks for The Princess Bride reference this morning. For some reason, I needed that.

A photo of Daniel Pennac’s book _The Rights of the Reader_.

Day 20 of 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
(I miss the original translated title for this book about reading: _Better than Life_.

A photo of an omnibus collection of Jeeves & Wooster stories: _The World of Jeeves_ by PG Wodehouse

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 19.

A photo of Russell Smith’s novel _Noise_.

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 18.

A photo of Robert Kroetsch’s novel _Badlands_.

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 17.

A photo of Rohinton Mistry’s novel _A Fine Balance._

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 16.

A photo of Ali Smith’s novel _Artful_.

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 15.

A photo of Evelyn Waugh’s _A Handful of Dust_.

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 14.

A photo of the cover of Northrop Frye’s _Anatomy of Criticism_.

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 13.

A photo of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel _An Artist of the Floating World_.

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 12.

@depreshmode.bsky.social So where do you think “Wit” falls on the sad/depressing movie spectrum?

A photo of the Gardner edition of _The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins_.

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 11. (Thank you, Mrs Evans!)

A photo of Daniel Coleman’s _In Bed with the Word_.

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 10.

mmm… strong verbs…

A photo of Geoffrey Wainwright’s _Doxology: The Praise of God in Worship, Doctrine, and Life_.

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 9.

Lewis Hyde’s _Trickster Makes this World_

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 8.

A photo of Thomas King’s book _green grass, running water_.

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 7.

A photo of Susan Cooper’s novel _The Dark Is Rising._

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 6.

A photo of the cover of Miriam Toews’ novel _A Complicated Kindness_

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 5.

Photo of book cover of a combined volume containing _The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes_ and _The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes_ (the Leslie Klinger New Annotated edition)

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 4.

(But that I found fascinating and intriguing.)

@ghweldon.bsky.social So glad _Little Dorrit _ made your to-watch list… I can’t wait to see your review! (of a movie I haven’t watched since… 1996?)