MJ Beauchamp

Happy March, and Happy Bookstaversary to me! 🥳

Seven years on Bookstagram already… do we follow each other?

#BookshelfSunday
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#BookskyGram 📸📚💙

Brilliant! A perfect escape read!

Ooh I loved this one, too!

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny! Only 100 pages in… but lovely!

“My personal belief is that we turn to postapocalyptic fiction not because we’re drawn to disaster, per se, but because we’re drawn to what we imagine might come next. We long secretly for a world with less technology in it.”

~Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquilty

#CanLit
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Growing up, Tara Gereaux knew her grandfather was Métis, but she was always told to tell people the family was French. In Wild People Quiet, she explores the factors that led him and many other Métis to keep their heritage hidden. Read the interview at https://bit.ly/4kYvox9

High on my reading list, too! Enjoy!

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Tom Hanks To Play Abraham Lincoln In Starburns Industries’ ‘Lincoln In The Bardo’; Playtone Producing Tom Hanks will play Abraham Lincoln in the live-action/stop-motion animation hybrid movie Lincoln in the Bardo, based on George Saunders' novel.

“The two-time Oscar winner is set to play Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, in Starburns Industries’ live-action/stop-motion animation hybrid movie Lincoln in the Bardo based on George Saunders’ New York Times bestseller and 2017 Booker Prize winner.”

#Booksky

Foe, by Iain Reid, is an elegantly written and moving story about simple life in an ever more complex world.

Also, on the #CanadaReads’ shortlist this year!

“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.”
~Charles Baudelaire

#SentenceSunday
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“Ma had said she would give the cordwainer man a baby—the thing he could not get from his dull-as-ditchwater wife—and we would get a roof in return.”

~Rosanna Pike, A Little Trickerie

#FirstLineFriday
#LiteraryFiction
#Booksky

Introducing Partita, the new novel from the Pulitzer and Women’s Prize winning author of Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver.

Coming October 2026, cover to be revealed.
faber.co.uk/journal/faber-announces-barbara-kingsolvers-new-novel

“it is well to hear, to become aware of, the operations of water among whose spider lacings by chance we live…”

James Agee in 1941, superb on the life and liveliness of rivers.

A river as a “huge, casual and aloof creature”. That trifecta of adjectives (not to mention the choice of noun)…

Bird Watchers Flock to Montreal to Catch a Glimpse of Canada's First Known European Robin Experts don't know how the little songbird traveled across the Atlantic Ocean

The Little Bird That Could 🧡

#Birds
#BirdWatching
#Mtl

Celebrate the Year of the Horse with these suggested reads…! 🐴

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Discover the 2026 Dublin Literary Award Longlist! 📚✨
Chosen from 69 nominated novels, these 20 titles were submitted by libraries around the world, with 26 libraries in 15 countries taking part.

Explore the longlist: dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/...

Fascinating… (and love that you have a reading theme for the year!)

Ha, yup… sounds about right! 😜

Interesting… I’m adding it to my list, thanks!

Such a precious read!!!

Yes!!! More mystery than thriller though, but the characters are so endearing… very special!

“A Québec winter, so cheerful and peaceful, could turn on you.”

~Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind

Another cozy Sunday in Three Pines; warms my heart and soul…

#SentenceSunday
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I haven’t read any of these yet, but Yellowface is high on my list!

The best! Which one will you start first?

Toronto independent booksellers Hopeless Romantic Bookshop and Little Ghosts Books co-host a pop-up bookstore at Union Station. Click here for the full story: https://bit.ly/4rHEZKO

His latest memoir; Knife, is phenomenal!

Putting Montréal on the map…! 🧡

#BirdWatching
#NatureWriting
#Mtl

Can Japanese theater travel? A Murakami adaptation tries. 'The End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland” adaptation is part of a rising wave of contemporary Japanese theater productions that tour internationally with original casts.

"The End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland” was created with an international tour in mind to capture rising interest in Japanese storytelling.

“I think it is possible to track the onset of middle age exactly.”

~Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

A timely novel and commentary on history, politics, and current state of the world - Kunzru’s voice pertinent and refreshing.

#FirstLineFriday
#LitFiction
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The Climate Fiction Prize 2026 longlist is here! 🤩📚

This longlist shows the limitless scope of climate fiction, from gripping thrillers to experimental literary works, folklore and reimagined myths to science fiction and generational family saga.

Full list here: climatefictionprize.co.uk