Christy Climenhage

Happy World Octopus Day to all who celebrate!

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

So pleased to see THE MIDNIGHT PROJECT included in this list of Spooky CanLit recommended reads among some truly terrific books!

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes.

She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

YouTube video by A Novel Review - Book Podcast The Midnight Project by Christy Climenhage | Book Review & Literary Analysis | A Novel Review

Very cool to listen to Seamus’s take on The Midnight Project at A Novel Review:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=-CuN...

Book cover with photo of residential school survivors. Title: “Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Volume One: Summary”

On National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, I’m reflecting on the great contribution made by His Honourable Murray Sinclair, who headed the TRC and has done so much to discover and document the truth and point us all toward reconciliation.

He passed last November and is greatly missed.

The World's Newest Whale Species Is Critically Endangered With Only 50 Individuals Left The species has been historically hunted, but now faces even more threats.

The World's Newest Whale Species Makes Moans Like No Other And There Are Only 50 Individuals Left To Hear Them | IFLScience 🦑🌎🧪

@nassos.bsky.social

This was so much fun! Lovely to be in such distinguished company:

@pscwillis.bsky.social
Natalia Theodoridou
D.A. Xaolin Spires
@mchristinebd.bsky.social
@courtney-floyd.com

And I added some great new books to my TBR.

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Good morning Womble! I’m reading One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed. I love her prose and storytelling.

We couldn't be prouder to be announcing this project! This spring, come out to Atlantic Canada's newest conference for creators of speculative fiction! We'll have 3 days of participatory programming with an INCREDIBLE slate of humans. Follow @tricon-hfx.bsky.social and/or visit tricon-halifax.com

Adding a bunch of the books listed in the comments to my TBR.

Thank you!

Hi Kate! 👋

I’m on Can*Con programming, can you add me to your starter pack?

Monarch!

This is my first AT novel and I like it very much. Look forward to exploring his others.

I’m reading Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Really enjoying it, just fabulous aliens.

An orange toadstool growing up beside a stick on the ground.

Hi BlueSky, please enjoy this mushroom:

A table of books under a sign “Canadian Authors”. Books include my book, THE MIDNIGHT PROJECT, nestled in the middle on the left.

So freaking cool to see my book in a bookstore. Every single time. Like, never gets old.

YouTube video by Modern Traveller In Conversation with John Climenhage, Peterborough's Artist Extraordinaire

Great interview with Peterborough artist and musician John Climenhage talking about perspective and inspiration with some awesome video of his studio and latest works:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSNa...

Great story!

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now.

But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!

It's easy! Check your library's website.

The Carl Brandon Society Presents How to Finish You Novel A Weekend Workshop with Suyi Davies Okungbowa carlbrandon.org/classes

If you're a BIPOC writer trying to find the time to finish your book or want personalised advice for tackling your writing projects, be sure to join us for the How To Finish Your Novel workshop with Suyi Davies Okungbowa.

Nov 29 & 30 or get the video after!

events.humanitix.com/how-to-finis...

A new analysis of underwater videos shows octopuses are 'incredible multitaskers' The research reveals new details about how the famously flexible mollusks coordinate some of the most complex movements in the animal kingdom.

I'm a little tired of octopuses making the rest of us look bad.
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

I’m reading Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.

Brilliant story.

Shelves at a book store. The Midnight Project by Christy Climenhage sits face out on the third shelf with a Canadian sticker on it.

I love it when people send me photos of THE MIDNIGHT PROJECT in the wild. Here it is, just chillin’ beside Ted Chiang and Ready Player One, above To Each This World. 😊

At Indigo Rideau in Ottawa.
Photo credit: @toddkuiack.bsky.social

Ernest Hemingway, quote: "There isn’t any symbolism [in The Old Man and the Sea]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit."

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Hell yeah!!!