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#PattiSmith #NonFiction #Booksky 📚💙

#SentenceSunday “The mournful honks of the geese sounded in the dusky air like the spirits of the slain giants.” ~Louise Erdrich, The Mighty Red #NatureWriting #LitFiction #Booksky 📚💙

“Even the Good Girls Will Cry begins with Auf der Maur’s bohemian upbringing in Montreal, where her early, deep connection to art and music gave her entry to the colorful and thriving local creative scene.” #NonFiction #Booksky 📚💙

“The 76th National Book Awards Ceremony, hosted by Jeff Hiller and featuring musical guest Corinne Bailey Rae, will be livestreamed for readers everywhere on Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 8:00pm EST.” #NationalBookAwards #Booksky 📚💙

““Someone worked very hard,” David deadpanned. “Not me. I didn’t work on it at all.”” #LarryDavid #Booksky 📚💙

“Spunk, written in 1935 by the acclaimed author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, was never staged during her life. Instead, it ended up in the Library of Congress, where it gathered dust until a volunteer rediscovered it decades later.” #ZoraNealeHurston #Booksky 📚💙

#WitchyWednesday “A wise woman keeps her burning on the inside.” ~Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches Beautiful day for a Pumpkin Spice Latte… and a bit of magic! ✨ #QuoteOfTheDay #CurrentlyReading #Booksky 📚💙

#FirstLineFriday “The view is obscured by clouds of steam from the locomotive that trail along the platform.” ~Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium A retelling of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain - dark and reflective, smart and creative. #Spooktober #LitFiction #Booksky 📚💙

“The American critic Susan Sontag soon crowned Krasznahorkai contemporary literature’s ‘master of the apocalypse’, a judgement she arrived at after having read the author’s second book Az ellenállás melankóliája (1989; The Melancholy of Resistance, 1998).” #LászlóKrasznahorkai #Booksky 📚💙

”Rest in peace, Ivan Klima, your life, and the way you lived it, should stand as an example to us all of what it means to hold to your principles under the worst of regimes.” #RIP #IvanKlima #Booksky

“Hi, Bunny.” ~Mona Awad, We Love You, Bunny #FirstLineFriday #CurrentlyReading #Booksky 📚💙

Curiosities… Sounds like the perfect book to start October with! My in real life book club’s selection of the month; historical fiction with a twist, by Canadian author Anne Fleming. #CurrentlyReading #CanLit #Booksky 📚💙

Woken just before 4am by one of the museum's alarms going off for so long in the rain that I get out of bed, put outdoor clothes on and am standing in the doorway doing my raincoat up about to go and look for one of them to turn it off when it finally stops. Welcome to October.

“The Anishinaabe Ukrainian author, activist and former social worker recommends 18 titles” #NationalDayForTruthAndReconciliation #CanLit #Booksky

ONE WEEK! 📚🎉 On October 6 at 10 a.m. ET, we will announce the 2025 #GillerPrize shortlist! Sign up for our newsletter to be notified when we share the news. gillerprize.ca/newsletter/ #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature

“The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.“ ~Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible #QuoteOfTheDay #Booksky 📚💙

“Make that earth slow down a bit As it spins around the sun It’s going awful fast And I am having too much fun… So make the earth slow down a bit We’re going way too fast— And I just want it to last.” ~Kate McGarrigle Stories I Might Regret Telling You, a memoir by Martha Wainwright. #Booksky 📚💙

📣 It's Booker Prize 2025 shortlist day!!! A reminder to join our livestream from 7:30pm BST / 2:30pm EDT / 12am IST using this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6VO...

“The sun was setting.” ~Maria Reva, Endling #CurrentlyReading #BookerPrize2025 #Booksky 📚💙

Audition by Katie Kitamura; one book, two stories - same elements, different composition. What to make of it is up to the reader. An ambitious and ambiguous short novel, engaging and reflective. Who else is reading the #BookerPrize2025 longlist? And what did you think of this one? #Booksky 📚💙

Montreal's Joie de Livres aims to take joy seriously https://bit.ly/3VJvUmE

Another National Book Award longlistee! This time for nonfiction ❤️ Congratulations, Omar El Akkad!

“My dear living gentlemen and ladies, there’s nothing as incommensurable as the disdain of the deceased.” ~Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas #SentenceSunday #CurrentlyListening #Booksky 📚💙

“Here’s a piece of literature by me, suitable for seventeen-year-olds in Alberta schools, unlike — we are told — The Handmaid’s Tale. (Sorry, kids; your Minister of Education thinks you are stupid babies.)” #MargaretAtwood #CanLit #ReadBannedBooks #Booksky 📚💙

Hello, September! Finally tackling the #BookerPrize2025 longlist! Starting with Susan Choi’s Flashlight - only 30% in, and already a captivating read. Who else is reading the Booker nominees? What’s your favourite so far? #CurrentlyReading #Booksky 📚💙

End of summer mini haul… Any of these books on your reading list? #StackSaturday #Booksky 📚💙

“If our daughters do not know how beautiful they are, just as they are, then surely we have failed.” ~Chimamanda Ngozi Achibie, Dream Count Wow! Five stars. #CurrentlyListening #CurrentlyReading #Booksky 📚💙

The magic of synchronicity… “The sun is beginning to go down. I have always considered twilight to be a time during which odd and unearthly things might come to pass.” ~Heather O’Neill, Valentine in Montreal #CurrentlyReading #CanLit #Booksky 📚💙

fyi the most common response so far is essentially 'yes but you'll hate it'

And now the coyotes are singing, somewhere down there. Echoing. (Sound up!)

#TwoForTuesday #CanLit #Booksky 📚💙

I hope you all spend the weekend feeling the freedom of this oystercatcher, as it soars over the Afon Mawddach in west Wales.

"What began as a modest effort by a few members of a small congregation to reach out to migrants would evolve into a deep experiment in solidarity — one that would challenge the community to confront its stereotypes of immigrants and change the makeup and the mission of the church for good."

“Do you hear the singing coming from the trees?” “I hear nothing at all.” “It’s too pretty to bear.” “You’re hearing nothing but a memory.” ~Heather O’Neill, The Capital of Dreams #CurrentlyReading #LitFiction #Booksky 📚💙

From ‘Earth Erect’ (1973) —Vasko Popa #poetry #poems #booksky

I hope this summer's wildlife spectacles show more of us the wonders of (relative) abundance, and why it's worth fighting for. I wrote this for the Guardian comment pages... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We’re thrilled to announce the 2025 #WainwrightPrize shortlists! From climate and conservation to poetry, place and powerful storytelling for young readers, this year’s books celebrate our connection to the natural world. Explore them all: wainwrightprize.com #StoriesThatConnect

"I think for her, this was a way to make sure that many of the books that had nourished her and made her as smart as she was, she wanted other people to have access to." #Booksky 📚💙

“There’s a terrible irony that the petroleum which first saved the whales is now the cause of their demise.”

“You’re a good person; if you were in a position to stop disaster, you probably would.” ~Laila Lalami #FirstLineFriday #LitFiction #Booksky 📚💙

“He always had a book open, a book in his hand. And it stimulated great conversations with all kinds of people." #WhatDanRead #Booksky 📚💙

Woohoo! Lots of good reading ahead… where to start?! #LitFiction #BookerPrize2025 #Booksky 📚💙

Can’t wait!!! #BookerPrize2025 #Booksky 📚💙

Over the weekend marked 2 years since Shuhada' Sadaqat’s / Sinéad O’Connor’s death. This video always gives me a sweet uplift, although it’s painful too. Grateful for it, & for that life & voice. youtu.be/e8jjudZBWSI?...

Oh yay, someone connected these things whose connections I've been contemplating for a while.

“The only way to remember is to forget, to let time fill the story up, and create it all over again. But if, one day, you leave the Sea and you have to let it go, don’t grieve. Life is fated to be left behind.” ~Madeleine Thien, The Book of Records #CurrentlyReading #CanLit #Booksky 📚💙

Meet the Booker Prize 2025 judges. https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/paiknfshbv

The powers of Robert MacFarlane and Terry Tempest Williams finally collide in this conversation on our thirst for truth, dreams of a different world, the publishing of MacFarlane’s ‘Is a River Alive?’ and much more.

“The word “safari,” in Swahili, means “journey”; it has nothing to do with animals. Someone ”on safari“ is just away and unobtainable and out of touch. Out of touch in Africa was where I wanted to be.” ~Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari #CurrentlyReading #PaulTheroux #Booksky 📚💙