Book cover for Last Days by Brian Evenson.
Spooky Season 2025, Book #8. Well damn. Now I need to track down and read everything @brianevenson.bsky.social has written. #BookSky ππ
11.10.2025 14:57 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@anthonypash.bsky.social
Academic librarian in Nova Scotia, union negotiator, avid reader, movie buff, news junky, ally, and lover of food and gardens.
Book cover for Last Days by Brian Evenson.
Spooky Season 2025, Book #8. Well damn. Now I need to track down and read everything @brianevenson.bsky.social has written. #BookSky ππ
11.10.2025 14:57 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Audiobook cover image for My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones.
Spooky Season 2025, Book #7. Another killer book (and title) by @sgj.bsky.social Loved the audiobook narration from Cara Gee. Need the rest of this series now. #BookSky ππ
10.10.2025 19:11 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Printed copy of the Seventeenth Collective Agreement between the Board of Governors of Acadia University and the Acadia University Faculty Association.
My work is done. Signed and printed.
10.10.2025 15:08 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Book cover for The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen.
Spooky Season 2025, Book #6. #BookSky ππ
10.10.2025 12:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Book cover for Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury.
Spooky Season 2025, Book #5. #BookSky ππ
09.10.2025 10:14 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Book cover for The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin.
Book #4 of spooky season 2025. The first 3 were Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez, The Deep by Nick Cutter, and The Terror by Dan Simmons. #BookSky ππ
08.10.2025 23:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Cover collage for September 2025 reading summary from Storygraph. Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh, Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher, Katabasis by R. F. Kuang, King: A Life by Jonathan Eig, The Yiddish Policemanβs Union by Michael Chabon, Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez, and The Deep by Nick Cutter.
Septemberβs reading. #BookSky ππ
30.09.2025 12:34 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Book cover of Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez.
Only 65 pages in and I am fully hooked. This is going to be one of those books I have a tough time putting down to do other things. #BookSky ππ
22.09.2025 09:34 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Book cover for Killer on the Road by Stephen Graham Jones.
Very exciting used bookstore find! Getting ready for my October reading so the timing is perfect. Wonβt be the only @sgj.bsky.social book(s) I read next month either. #BookSky ππ
19.09.2025 18:42 β π 17 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0Picked up my pre-ordered copy of Katabasis at @kingsbookstore.bsky.social today when I dropped my daughter off at her dorm. Very excited to dive into this tomorrow. #BookSkyππ
31.08.2025 22:54 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Recently listened to the audiobook version of Staircase in the Woods and really enjoyed it. Also loved Wanderers and Wayward. Always give starred reviews (just the stars) on Goodreads and Storygraph and share on Facebook and Bluesky.
29.08.2025 20:49 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Cover collage: Orbital by Samantha Harvey, Good Omens by Terry Pratchet and Neil Gaiman, Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson, Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift, One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson, Concrete Island by J. G. Ballard, Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig, and Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury.
Augustβs reads. All good stuff, but Dandelion Wine was the standout here. #BookSkyππ
29.08.2025 20:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0...and the hate continues in #Alberta #bannedbooks
The Handmaid's Tale among more than 200 books to be pulled at Edmonton public schools
Internally distributed list obtained by CBC shows more than 200 books slated for removal
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Dalhousie University faculty and staff rally amid lockout, failed negotiations
By @mmughees.bsky.social
I think it ended up being a mink that had escaped from a local mink farm.
18.08.2025 22:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Photo of faculty member and student shaking hands with text saying: ββCLT positions: All CLTPs 12-month continuing positions; no 1/2 month positions; credit towards precedenceβ βPart Time Employees: 3 credit courses = 210 hours of work for EI eligibility; family pass for PT members; improved contract start datesβ βInstructors: addition of instructor III; can bank credit towards sabbaticalββ
Photo of student in library with text saying βImproved funding for scholarly pursuits: professional development funds; start-up funds; travel and professional allowance; university research fund; scholarly activity funds; increase in remuneration for supervising theses, independent studies, reading coursesβ
Photo of faculty members at convocation with text saying βImproved language on student surveys and alternatives: employee ownership of student surveys; options for peer review reports; support for development of teaching dossiersβ
Photo of KCIC garden room with text saying βadded our new colleagues: nurse practice educatorsβ
Some of the highlights from our tentative agreement reached with Acadia University. Faculty, stay tuned to your email for further updates!
18.08.2025 15:43 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1A soft background of university hall with text that reads: "AUFA have reached a tentative Agreement with Acadia University"
AUFA have reached a tentative agreement with Acadia University.
We were very pleased to share this with our membership last week. To read a small statement from our lead negotiator:
www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
[LIBRRARY-STAFF] Update on west elevator, top floor bees
Just another day in the library.
12.08.2025 18:00 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Young chicken looking straight in the camera.
What are you reading there?
10.08.2025 19:49 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0How industrial forestry and climate change created Nova Scotiaβs wildfire problem
A collaborative publication between the @halifaxexaminer.ca and @nationalobserver.com
by Marc Fawcett-Atkinson and @joanbaxter.bsky.social
Not just lying, but blatant, obvious, bald face, ridiculous lying. Itβs incredible. Enough to drive people crazy.
05.08.2025 21:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Copy of Good Omens on my knee with 5 chicks in the grass in the background.
Donβt dare run any power equipment in this tinderbox weβre living in, so itβs a good day to sit outside with a book and keep an eye on the chicks.
02.08.2025 16:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Dry brook bed. Just dry stones where there is usually flowing water.
Nova Scotia is in serious need of some rain right now. I donβt think Iβve ever seen the brook on our property this dry.
02.08.2025 16:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There's a point in this episode when David Suzuki says, "I just take the science seriously," and I want this written on my headstone.
I'm very tired of federal & provincial decisions based on money vibes. Can we please get some research-backed policies about *gestures wildly at everything*
Book cover collage. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher, The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler, How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu, A Maggot by John Fowles, Red Shirts by John Scalzi, Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home by James Tiptree Jr., and The Floating Opera by John Barth.
Julyβs reads. Great books by @colsonwhitehead.com , @tkingfisher.com , Karen Joy Fowler, @sequoian.bsky.social , John Fowles, @scalzi.com , James Tiptree Jr., and John Barth. #BookSky ππ
31.07.2025 09:29 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0OCLC has laid 80 people off, not just because of IMLS cuts but explicitly because they're trying to use AI to do the work of library professionals.
Ready to admit AI is a huge labor problem yet?
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Photo of the book cover of A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher on my lap as I sit on the back deck.
Sitting on the back deck listening to Randy Newman (Sail Away (1972), keeping an eye on the ducks and chickens, hanging with the pooch, drinking a cold beer, and reading @tkingfisher.com βs A House with Good Bones. Despite the hellscape that is our world right now, itβs a good day.
05.07.2025 17:22 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New from @policyalternatives.ca: Two groups of tenants in Toronto took on their landlords simultaneously over repairs and rent increases. They wonβand could be a model for tenant action in Canada. By @graceofyul.bsky.social
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...