What Byatt does structurally with her novel to underline the sheer violence of the war is brilliant. 500 pages of life set against 100 pages of devastating death. Lives cut short, death that is blind to everything War that comes like a tidal wave to wipe everything off without regard #booksky 📚

Almost middle of October and the leaves are so so close to their peak beauty. #fall 🍂 #naturesky

Rainy mornings go well with Leontia Flynn and her poetry. (poem from Taking Liberties which is an excellent title. And book) #morningpoem 💡#booksky

Another amazing evening at the river house. #bluesky #nofilter

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This review though…. I feel validated. #booksky 📚 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Unexpected in as many ways as life is unexpected. A reminder that people run deep, and to never underestimate what lies below the surface. Wagging a finger telling you not to judge and warning about what is lost when we refuse the truths that hide and simmer behind our everyday lives. #booksky 📚

Pilates instructors don’t know how to count. iykyk #pilates

Another one of these wonders last night. #skysunset 🇨🇦

If you have an affinity to words like feral and neurotic, anxious and annoyed, cannot recommend this enough. #amreading 📚 #booksky #summerreads

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“I know no good way to live and I can’t stop getting lost in my thoughts, my ancient forests... You ask: how does a man rise or fall in this life? The fisherman’s song flows deep under the river.” #booksky 📚

Tatooine vibes. #sunset #riversky

Aaahhh…. What a read. @michael.chabon is a gem and I can’t believe this hasn’t landed on my lap until now. Reminder that even when you know people, you don’t. Funny, brilliant story telling, and like any great book, it leaves you thinking. #amreading 📚 ☀️#booksky

Technology, the environment, the ocean, science, parents, friendship, race, humanity, relationships, love, and breakthrough AI, Playground has it all. It’s also a warning of how we are toying with our collective future and what might lay ahead. Pick it up, you will enjoy it tremendously. #booksky

“This historic ruling is not merely a legal opinion; it's a global mandate that shatters any illusion of continued fossil fuel impunity,” The right thing is not always the easy thing. The easy thing is easy because everyone can do it. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/23/n... #climate #nature

Fresh air and this view I will never tire of. ❤️ #bluesky #art #nature #water

"Attache ta tuque et lache pas la patate!" It doesn’t have to be complicated, does it? #booksky #amreading 📚

Monday morning rush hour. #bluesky

Excellent read. The story of precocious 10yo Vera and of a family fighting the second law of thermodynamics - and I’m not sure whether the emphasis is on entropy or on isolated system. In today’s world, hard to choose. Funny, sad, slightly dystopian, and very much NY. :) @shteyngart.bsky.social

Hazy morning on the river. #wildfires #climatecrisis 🌎 🔥 🌲

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Not sure if it’s a sky angel, a sky heart, or both. In any case, nature is beautiful. Take good care of it. #skypictures 🇨🇦

Just missed this but book ordered. Can’t wait to meet Vera. #booksky 📚 🙂

Sunsets with Sadie. ❤️ #skydogs #sunsets

We are no more important and many would say we are less important-than the other beings and systems making up the universe. We have no more "rights" than any other living thing in that web. We are not special, extra or excep-tional. We are not owed the lives of other living things. /1

Baby came in for some water play. #nature

Summer evenings

"Why can't you write the way people want?" Frank Beckett, in a letter to his brother (The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929–1940).

We have been telling stories for 4,000 years. Read them all. 🙂 #booksky

Some two hundred odd pages and not a comma in sight. Excellent writing, and yes, a bit of poetic prose to delight. #booksky #amreading 📚 🦋

Happy Bloomsday to those celebrating. #booksky #bloomsday #joyce

His forever sadness. Happy Birthday, WB Yeats. #booksky #poetry 📚

The world of his mind and the mind of his world in a stark contrast that polarized his admirers and his critics. Fascinating life and work. I am also trying to train my brain away from forever seeing his name as France Is Bacon. 😂 #booksky 📚

Beauty sky. Again. #sunsets

Her book is a feverish dream, a melange of past and of future, equal parts premonition and warning. A story of collective trauma… a way of trying to store our memories outside our body. /1

The eerie, hazy sunset - the fire up North sending its smoke on the river. 🌎 🔥

Get out of here with this final!!!! 😱😱🥳 #rolandgarros

Alcaraz playing Sinner’s game, not his own. 😢 #rolandgarros

If this is the pace, it will be a looooong final. 🧡 #rolandgarros

Literature, novelists, poets, and the immense role they play in the politics of authoritarianism. Power, political structures, and how literature grows alongside pushing against them. “… art, unlike a tyrant, receives no mercy, but only gives it.” #booksky 📚

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The arc of power is a political theorem, a truth established by means of accepted truths. Wolfe knows his math. Power is transitory so treat it with humility and treat it with respect. What goes up must come down. #booksky

Petition to please don’t do this to books anymore. #nomorestickystickers

O setting sun! though the time has come, I still warble under you, if none else does, unmitigated adoration. Walt Whitman - Song at Sunset

A hard read. Stories told unapologetically. History will never tell these stories because history forgets those who are easy to forget, so writers have to.Dhalia de la Cerda serving her main course with a side of Mexican goth.

Propped up Saturday morning nap. 😂 #blueskypuppies

Toronto Star with a pretty cool visual. #elections 🗳️

And forever the river runs. Deep as the tides of time and memory, deep as the tides of sleep, the river runs. Thomas Wolfe

Kid outside, mom inside. #govote (At 16yo, Mike’s 5th election volunteering ❤️)