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I really can’t recommend reading (or rereading) 1984 enough….

It was strangely reassuring to know that we’ve had to tackle these questions before

I expect I will later this year

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Looking at the news from south of the border today reaffirms my decision to reread 1984 a few months ago. It is painfully, acutely accurate.
#booksky

We won 🚲

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Happy Booker Eve to all who celebrate

#booksky @thebookerprizes.com

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If you were a fan of the bicycle garbage bin collision video back in the day, then you’re gonna love…

Meet the Booker Prize 2025 judges.

https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/paiknfshbv

A white hand holds a blue and yellow book above a rock and some green shrubs. The book is an uncorrected proof of On the Calculation of Volume Book 3 by Solvej Balle and translated by Sophia Hersi Smith. The book cover has a multicolored blob in the middle and this is encircled by a white oval which contains the text.

Ecstatic to receive this today. I am obsessed. Thanks @pgcbooks.bsky.social !
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Election worker: “Emily Mandel. Isn’t that a writer’s name?”
Me: “I’m a writer.”
Election worker: “Oh, I was thinking Hilary Mantel, never mind”

First time using #darkTO here on Bluesky…. Power’s out in Riverdale (Toronto)

100% this especially with this humidity. It’s sure not 25!

You don’t know me but I too live in Riverdale and got the same thing and was wondering. Because it’s blast furnace hot out there.

A white hand holds an ereader with the cover of the book Goodlord by Ella Frears in front of a still lake. A green shore is on the distance and clouds are reflected in the water.

This week I devoured Ella Frear’s brilliant Goodlord, a 100-page email rant about the predatory practices of rental agencies, arts organizations, and men, especially men. I wrote about it over on the ‘gram. #booksky

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A white hand holds the book Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan in front of a lot of green shrubs with white flowers and red berries. The book is blue with a ladder, a pinkish red flower, and a yellow circle that says “Man Booker Prize Winner”.

I’ve been checking off @thebookerprizes winners. I finished Iris Murdoch’s The Sea, The Sea a few days ago, I’m close to finishing Alan Hollinghurst’s
The Line of Beauty, and I’ve just started Richard Flanagan’s Narrow Road to the Deep North.

Tom Lehrer > all other political pundits

Horse_ebooks tweet: Everything happens so much

A white hand holds two books in front of a flowering shrub. The books are Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty and Iris Murdoch’s The Sea, The Sea. Both books have blueish-greenish covers.

Currently reading two Booker winners—Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty (2004) and Iris Murdoch’s The Sea, The Sea (1978)—and my biggest problem is that I never want to put one down to pick up the other. And then, I don’t want to put that one down to return to the first one.
#booksky

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

Kinda love the French Open using the Andor theme for their ceremony

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the unfocused background, bearing in his six-fingered hands a bowl of lather over which a mirror and a razor floated.

Let’s check in and see how those numbers are doing now

Well done, Bluesky

It’s nice to see a good ‘ol ratio over here on Bluesky. Forgot how much I’d missed it

Maybe hire a real person called Brendan instead

Yeah, that’s not great

Merriam-Webster Tweet: Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants. Cookie Monster's reply to the tweet: Me no wear pants.

This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received.

Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙

The celebration would be a worthy replacement for the Taste of the Danforth.

The outside of a building which is dark blue below and light blue above. In front is a fence that has a sign for The Wandering Albatross Books in Bloomfield, Ontario. There is a black and white drawing of an albatross (which looks like a super-sized gull) in the middle.

Two bookshelves of brightly coloured books. At the top of the shelves it says “Fiction”. Some of the titles include: We Could Be Rats, What I Know About You, Once a Monster, Sokcho, Punished, The Golden Cockerel.

A bookshelf of books about nature and walking. Book titles include A Philosophy of Walking, Gone Bush, The Old Ways, Where the Wild Winds Are, Between Britain.

Two books sit on someone’s lap. On top is a green book with images of leaves and the title Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau. The author is Ben Ahattuck but his name is partly cut off in the photo. Underneath is a blue book with a photo of a woman on the cover. Parts of her face are obscured with oddly shaped blobs of pink and red. The book is The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa.

Visited @walbatrossbookshop.bsky.social in Prince Edward County today and it was a tiny perfect gem of of a bookshop. A wonderfully curated collection of fiction (esp translated, Canadian, indigenous, global) and great nature, travel, and geography non-fiction (and more).