2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 62, 1961. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. 📚💙

Devastating news.

Not part of my reading challenge but certainly one of the best books I’ve read/listened to this year. Real, raw, maddening, and life affirming. Bahni Turpin is just perfect as the narrator. Incredible.

In the month of May I read 18 books. Nine of those were for my reading challenge. The standouts this month were: Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut (extremely relevant for today), Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin, Night by Elie Wiesel, and The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 61, 1960. Rabbit, Run by John Updike. 📚💙

I hate this. i first noticed this practice years ago when I was reading a Judy Blume book to my daughter. I learned that Blume and other authors were aware of and approved the practice. It wouldn’t bother me nearly as much if they clearly marked it as a new edition with a statement on changes.

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 60, 1959. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. 📚💙

Look, I respect the collective bargaining process and nothing strengthens free collective bargaining like the Minister of Seniors publicly pressuring workers to ignore their union via a public letter.

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 59, 1958. Night by Elie Wiesel. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 58, 1957. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov. 📚💙

Long term care workers in 6th week of strike. Time for the government to bring something more to the bargaining table. This care work is so undervalued. Families are filling in gaps and government is relying on them to do so. #nspoli www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 57, 1956. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin. 📚💙

Now for a quick time out on my reading challenge to read the latest in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 56, 1955. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. 📚💙

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

NSCC is laying off all of their librarians due to Tim Houston's budget cuts. Kydra Mayhew, a friend of ours and currently the librarian at NSCC in Dartmouth, talks to CBC Information Morning www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 55, 1954. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis. 📚💙

I just heard that NSCC cut all of their campus librarians (11 librarians across the province) as part of dealing with the budget shortfall engineered by the provincial government. Tim Houston and his party can go fuck themselves.

Listening to the newest in the always excellent Murderbot series by @marthawells.com .

These five librarians are running for state political offices across the country. Here's why they're running, and why librarians make good candidates. bookriot.com/librarians-r...

Man, Levin knew how to write a lean, compelling thriller. This is my second (after The Stepford Wives last year) but I will be tracking down copies and reading all of the handful of books he wrote. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 54, 1953. Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 53, 1952. Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 📚💙

A wonderful way to spend a beautiful sunny afternoon after a productive morning. And damn this is a good book. Might be more relevant today than when it was written.

They do this to everything. They changed the school absence reporting system so it's more difficult to count absences due to illness. They've tried to change the definition of conservation areas to inflate protected land percentage. The NS cons can never be trusted.

In the month of April I read 16 books. Twelve of those were for my reading challenge. So many standouts this month. Honestly, the only book that was just okay was Operation Bounce House which was still fun, but nothing exceptional in a month of exceptional reads.

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 52, 1951. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 51, 1950. The Dying Earth by Jack Vance. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 50, 1949. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles.📚💙

Cleaning out the straw shed today and the squirrels are not impressed.

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 49, 1948. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.📚💙

There are long-term care workers picketing across Nova Scotia and Cumberland libraries staff unionized. Tim Houston doesn’t respect lower-paid workers who really keep province running.

A nice, productive weekend. Around 500 cloves of garlic planted and now it’s time to relax for a bit.

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 48, 1947. In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes.📚💙

So, it's autism acceptance month and the @nsgov.bsky.social is forcing everyone back into the office on Monday. An easy, cheap way to support neurodivergent workers is work-from-home (when possible). Instead, the NS gov. is making them jump through bureaucratic hoops for expensive accommodations 🙄

Nova Scotia’s 2024 greenhouse gas emissions numbers are in; the province likely won’t meet 2030 reduction targets by Larry Hughes

"Canada’s system of public postsecondary education is being hollowed out through chronic underfunding combined with a marketized orientation that values postsecondary education primarily as a pipeline to train students for specific jobs."

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 47, 1946. Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl.📚💙

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 46, 1945. Loving by Henry Green. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 45, 1944. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 44, 1943. Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 43, 1942. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus. 📚💙

This! Understanding marginal tax rates— When the government says that tax cut will put an average of $1,400 in your pocket. (Nova Scotia) Or how adjusting brackets for inflation helps everyone the same? NM all the tax breaks that the highest income also get -the Effective tax rate which is lower.

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 42, 1941. Chess Story by Stefan Zweig. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 41, 1940. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. 📚💙

Nova Scotia is now the only province in Canada that does not provide direct funding to publishers. Full article written by workers at @fernpub.bsky.social

March 2026 Reads. 📚💙

David Climenhaga: Who could have imagined that social democrats, democratic socialists and their ilk wouldn’t want Conservative policies rebranded as Liberal policies from their own party as well? #canpoli #abpoli