Picked up a old copy of *The Razor's Edge* by Somerset Maugham — spine cracked, pages slightly yellow — and I've barely surfaced since. There's something about reading a book that's passed through other hands, other lives. I'm really loving this novel. #booksky
27.02.2026 21:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Moving from Shanghai to Canada 20 years ago taught me something that took a decade to sink in: the best way to survive winter is to go outside in it (with the right gear). I won't pretend I love it. But out in the open air, it's more than manageable — it might even be fun.
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This painting faintly resembles our small town at the moment (only cars and parking lots somewhere in the distance). | Hunters in the Snow (Jagers in de Sneeuw) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Dutch, 1525-1569)
21.02.2026 22:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When brutal winter feels cozy and full of hygge from the backyard. #WinterCozy #HomeLife
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A John Berger biography is coming in September and honestly? I'm considering taking a week's leave, disappearing somewhere quiet, and reading nothing else. Some books deserve that kind of attention. This feels like one of them. 📖 www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/790677...
18.02.2026 12:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What does this have to do with Kingston or Kingston news?
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Brett and Jocelyn were so devastated at the disappointing Olympic performance, I got a little teary for them.
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From Gold by Rumi (translated by Haleh Liza Gafori)
#booksky #poetry #rumi #farsi
He'd read their books. He knew their books. It was effortless. That's the thing about intelligence — it doesn't announce itself. It just shows up. Which is perhaps why its absence in the current presidency feels so loud. America you've fallen so far.
08.02.2026 03:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Paul Theroux has this lovely story about sitting with Pico Iyer in a Maui café when Obama happened to walk in. No appointment, no agenda — just a chance encounter. And what Theroux remembered most was how Obama talked about their books with genuine understanding.
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I feel kind of bad for the guy, but I feel much worse for the countless others in his position who are just trying to keep their heads down. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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This interview + game with Jody Foster is super charming. I just saw La vie privée on the weekend and she's so serious in it, you forget how funny she can be. youtu.be/DjljoQI_5Ys?...
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One of my favourite (small) roles of Catherine O'Hara was Gail in Scorsese's excellent film After Hours (1985) where she plays a Softee Ice Cream truck driver and who joins the mob searching for Paul (played by Griffin Dunne). She's psycho level scary. And funny.
31.01.2026 12:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Registration for this goes live at 10am ET today and tickets will go fast! | Toni at Random Mon Feb 23, 7pm at Toronto Reference Library. Free registration | www.eventbrite.ca/e/1976931144...
30.01.2026 14:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What do you do when your mother leaves you a letter addressed to your future self—and she's the poet Anne Sexton? In this 1994 archival recording, Linda Gray Sexton speaks with devastating honesty about loving someone who was both mentor and burden.
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - Orwell's '1984'
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Julius Tutsch (1890-1944), Nakampe, Prague (c. 1930)
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Canadian artwork of the day is yet another Louis Muhlstock (1904-2001) piece, this one entitled Supper for Two (circa 1935). | I've long admired the work of the Belgian woodcut artist, Frans Masereel (1889-1972) and Muhlstock's woodcuts very much remind me of Masereel's quieter moments.
21.01.2026 13:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition." - Mark Carney at Davos. I love this framework of the sign in the window courtesy of Václav Havel. I feel Havel's loss deeply—he'd have much to say about this moment. Carney does right by him, at any rate.
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"The idea of resurrection is, I think, a botanical idea...All plants, which we view as less evolved that us, actually know how to die in such a way that they can come back to life again." - Georgi Gospodinov, Death and the Gardener
18.01.2026 14:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My nightstand is getting a little overloaded.
18.01.2026 13:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
From last week’s New Yorker lol
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Canadian painting of the day is another Louis Muhlstock (1904-2001) piece, Ruelle Leduc (c. 1940), in an area of Montreal that has totally disappeared. This is the site now of Habitations Jeanne Mance, the oldest existing public housing project in Canada at 100 Boulevard De Maisonneuve.
17.01.2026 20:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0📹 Vídeo | En Groenlandia y Copenague los manifestantes le dicen Trump que la isla “no está en venta”. “Que América se vaya”. social.elpais.com/f_7…
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Just a block from home, the morning was magic.
16.01.2026 18:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Linda, Dolly, Emmylou ❤️
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My quiet home office corner
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The Canadian painting of the day is View from a Window (1938) by Louis Muhlstock (1904-2001) which depicts a Montreal alleyway behind where 3540 Rue Durocher is today. That's the Southeast corner of Mont Royal in the distance.
15.01.2026 14:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My my my this Denis Johnson novel, The Stars at Noon, set in a dull but war-torn Nicaragua in 1984, is a great way to kick off a snowy Thursday morning in winter.
15.01.2026 13:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Snow Leopard is one of my favourite books, and the idea of this biography is very intriguing.
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