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A white hand holds the book Bear by Marian Engel in front of a sign that says “Caution Active Bear in Park.” The book is mauve with a close up painting of a bear’s face in a circle. The sign is white with a red border, red text, and the black silhouette of a walking bear.

Currently devouring this memorable entry in the Canadian literary canon (first published in 1976).

Figured this sign at Macgregor Point Provincial Park made a good backdrop.

#booksky #kanataclassics

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The aurora borealis in greens, yellows, and pinks (and maybe even a little purple) lights up the night sky and reflects off of the surface of a lake. The Big Dipper is in the top right corner. There’s a tower with red lights on the right hand side and some grasses on the foreground on the right.

I love it so much.
Lake Scugog, Ontario, Canada, 10:08 pm (iPhone 13 mini)

Is #aurorasky a thing?

#onwx #aurora #northernlights

Found my people…

this is so wonderfully weird, give her all the golds 🥇

“…Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally.

“There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place. Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy.”

Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.so... • 15h Letter from a young reader today who was "forced" to read a book by his teacher and "forced" to write a letter to the author, but who's going to buy the book (More Than This) over the summer to finish it, "which is a big deal if you know me". Honestly, best compliment a writer can get. Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld @civilisation.bsky.social I don't think you should take the desire to finish the book as a compliment. You should stop forcing people to read books by you and instead stick to using the acknowledged classics for education purposes instead of your book(s) for vanity purposes.

It’s a Canadian girl summer. 🇨🇦🏆

Congratulations to Vicky Mboko on winning her first WTA title at the OBN, and to Summer McIntosh for 4 gold medals at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships, the first Canadian to earn 5 individual medals at a single world championship. 🤩👏

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.

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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 !
#booksky

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