MJ Beauchamp

We’re thrilled to announce the 2025 #WainwrightPrize shortlists!

From climate and conservation to poetry, place and powerful storytelling for young readers, this year’s books celebrate our connection to the natural world.

Explore them all: wainwrightprize.com

#StoriesThatConnect

'She wanted them in the world': N.B. community maintains book shed after owner's death | CBC News A small shed sits on a property close to the ferry in Pettes Cove, N.B., on Grand Manan. It looks like any other backyard shed. But it is packed with hundreds of books — a legacy of the late Anneke De...

"I think for her, this was a way to make sure that many of the books that had nourished her and made her as smart as she was, she wanted other people to have access to."

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“There’s a terrible irony that the petroleum which first saved the whales is now the cause of their demise.”

“You’re a good person; if you were in a position to stop disaster, you probably would.”

~Laila Lalami

#FirstLineFriday
#LitFiction
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This Man Kept a Meticulous List of All 3,599 Books He’d Read Since 1962. When He Died, His Family Published It Online Dan Pelzer, who died on July 1 at age 92, is having a viral moment after his relatives shared his 109-page log featuring every single book he finished over more than 60 years

“He always had a book open, a book in his hand. And it stimulated great conversations with all kinds of people."

#WhatDanRead
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Ha! Sounds about right! 🙃

Loved this book! Enjoy!

Woohoo! Lots of good reading ahead… where to start?!

#LitFiction
#BookerPrize2025
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Same to you!

Can’t wait!!!

#BookerPrize2025
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YouTube video by NettwerkMusic Sinead O' Connor - 8 Good Reasons [Official Music Video]

Over the weekend marked 2 years since Shuhada' Sadaqat’s / Sinéad O’Connor’s death. This video always gives me a sweet uplift, although it’s painful too. Grateful for it, & for that life & voice. youtu.be/e8jjudZBWSI?...

Oh yay, someone connected these things whose connections I've been contemplating for a while.

“The only way to remember is to forget, to let time fill the story up, and create it all over again. But if, one day, you leave the Sea and you have to let it go, don’t grieve. Life is fated to be left behind.”

~Madeleine Thien, The Book of Records

#CurrentlyReading
#CanLit
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Meet the Booker Prize 2025 judges.

https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/paiknfshbv

Dreaming with Water On not looking away

The powers of Robert MacFarlane and Terry Tempest Williams finally collide in this conversation on our thirst for truth, dreams of a different world, the publishing of MacFarlane’s ‘Is a River Alive?’ and much more.

I didn’t either… super interesting!

“The word “safari,” in Swahili, means “journey”; it has nothing to do with animals. Someone ”on safari“ is just away and unobtainable and out of touch.
Out of touch in Africa was where I wanted to be.”

~Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari

#CurrentlyReading
#PaulTheroux
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The Queer Relationship That Powered Rachel Carson’s Nature Writing On the evening of January 22, 1962, New Yorker editor William Shawn called Rachel Carson to tell her that her forthcoming book, Silent Spring, was “a brilliant achievement.” Shawn plann…

“What Carson shows us is that good lives are actually only possible if we risk affirming our queerness: noticing and seeking out what actually gives us pleasure and meaning, undisciplined by the dream of the sterile world.”

#NatureWriting
#NonFiction
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Linnaea borealis flew into my fuel Day trip to a forest by the shore — and some thoughts about kids connection to nature

Coffee — my fuel. Forest — my vibe. Coffee in the forest — perfection!
Read my post about our windy nature walk and find out how a flower ended up in my coffee. 🌸☕️🌲
#naturewriting #forest #kuksa #nature #forestwalk #getoutside
growwildforest.substack.com/p/linnaea-bo...

Yon tree. You know the one.

Right?!

"Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself." - Henry David Thoreau
#naturewisdom #naturewriting #landscapephotography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #photography #EastCoasstKin #ThoreauThurwdays

Is Your Dream Home an Old Library? This Place Is For You. This former Carnegie library is full of details about its role as a community library–and it's now looking for its next owner.

“If ever you’ve dreamed of living in an old library, this may be your perfect opportunity.”

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So it goes.

Loved this book… she’s awesome!

Aww I love that!

The best…!

"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”

~Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

#MotivationMonday
#AnneLamott
#NonFiction
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My happy place… 🌺

#CurrentlyReading Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

#HarukiMurakami
#LitFiction
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10 Canadian historical fiction books to read this summer | CBC Books Looking for a good summer read? Transport yourself with these historical fiction works by Canadian authors.

10 Canadian historical fiction books to read this summer…

Have you read any of them, or on your radar?

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#HistoricalFiction
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