“If your worldview is forsythia, then every startling truth that bends you low becomes a new connection to the earth, a new way to stand, an invitation to grow.” ~ @jarodkanderson.bsky.social, Forsythia (Love Notes from the Hollow Tree) #NatureWriting #NationalPoetryMonth #Booksky

Sabres fans sing ‘O Canada’ after mic malfunction in Buffalo

Tomorrow! #IndependentBookstoreDay #Booksky

The 2026 #WomensPrize for Fiction shortlist. Which will you be reading next? #WomensPrizeforFiction

“All told, we munch on a credit card's worth of plastic every day and probably will for the rest of our lives." ~Edward Humes, Total Garbage #EarthDay #CurrentlyReading #NonFiction #Booksky

"I got saved by poetry, and I got saved by the beauty of the world." — Mary Oliver ‘Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World’ documentary premieres Tuesday, August 25 at 9/8c on PBS. #Booksky #NatureWriting

Day four… another lovely week comes to an end; celebrating books and Canadian literature. Congrats to Loghan Paylor’s novel, The Cure For Drowning, and beautifully championed by Tegan Quin. Until next year - Read on, Canada! #CanadaReads #CanLit #Booksky

Day three… love all around, and both excellent books left - big finale tomorrow! #CanadaReads #CanLit #Booksy

Day two… got a bit heated, but all good! 😅 (Still looking for a CBC coffee mug; if anyone has a contact?) #CanadaReads #CanLit #Booksky

First book out, but many people’s favourite…!

(You know it’s a Monday when there’s afternoon coffee involved…) Enjoying Even the Good Girls Will Cry; Melissa Auf der Maur’s heartfelt memoir, paired with my Montréal coffee mug - a perfect match, for a local icon. #CoffeeAndCurrentlyReading #MugMonday #MemoirMonday #Booksky 📸📚💙

Day one… my top book was voted off, but awesome panelists again this year! Anyone know; where to get that black coffee mug, with CBC logo? ☕️ #CanadaReads #CanLit #Booksky

Watched splashdown with my son and for a very brief moment had hope for humanity.

“When I ask myself, how a person should live, this is the advice I now turned to: Learn to branch out like a tree, to let go like a tree, to weather hardship like a tree, to rise above like a tree, to set down roots like a tree.” ~Robert Moor, In Trees #NatureWriting #NonFiction #Booksky

Who’s excited for Monday? Vote for your favourite Canada Reads 2026 book; if a five-way tie, survey will decide… #CanadaReads #CanLit #Booksky

Canada Reads gets underway in ONE WEEK! I'm so jazzed to be helping out the CBC Books team for this year's battle of the books. Here's a look at the books and the champions. #CanadaReads

“Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, the seismic family saga you couldn’t avoid in the early aughts, is finally getting a screen adaptation.”

#FirstLineFriday “The twins departed this world with a cry, much in the way they came into it.” ~Jiyoung Han, Honey in the Wound Historical fiction meets magical realism, poetic and graceful. #Booksky 📸📚💙

Presenting the shortlist for the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies. Find out more about the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2026

Another mini haul today… because these five novels look fabulous, and irresistible. #BookMailMonday #BookHaul #Booksky 📸📚💙

“The train was rocking through wide open country before Elsa was able to put off the misery of leaving and reach out for the freedom and release that were hers now.” ~Wallace Stegner, The Big Rock Candy Mountain #FirstLineFriday #LitFic #Booksky

This is how I pulled out of being tensed up & angry this morning. Maybe it’ll help pals too, even only as a video.

“A novel is an invitation into another’s consciousness—a slippery place where emotions can have a piercing familiarity or feel so alien that you suspect you may have discovered a new species of human.” #Booksky

The 2026 #WomensPrize for Non-Fiction shortlist. How many have you read so far? #WomensPrizeforNonFiction

Monday… ☕️ #NotBeforeMyCoffee #CoffeeMugOfTheDay #Booksky

Latest episode of CBC’s The Next Chapter… Actor and Canada Reads panellist Josh Dela Cruz on defending Iain Reid’s novel, Foe. #CanadaReads #CanLit #Booksky

Warner Bros. Pictures has closed a film-rights deal for the New York Times bestseller Playground by Richard Powers, with Timothée Chalamet aboard.

My next book club read; The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans… Who read it, and what did you think? #Booksky

Bravo!!! The Girl Who Cried Pearls wins Best animated short film, directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski. #Mtl #Oscars

We’re Oscar party ready here, and predictions done! I’d love to see Train Dreams win Best Adapted Screenplay, though I don’t think it will… a beautiful film, and exquisite novella by Denis Johnson. Who else will be watching tonight? Any favourites? #Oscars #Booksky 📸📚💙

What’s your favourite love story? Just finished this one yesterday, and quite beautiful… “If you don’t have love, you don’t properly exist. If you don’t properly exist, you don’t have love.” ~Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny #LitFic #Booksky 📸📚💙

Who’s ready for CBC’s #CanadaReads? I’ve now read four of the five finalists, and I can’t wait! “In small towns, there are two kinds of people: those who can’t wait to leave and those who can’t imagine being anywhere else.” ~Tyler Hellard, Searching for Terry Punchout #CanLit #Booksky 📸📚💙

“Auf der Maur joined Corgan to promote her new memoir, Even the Good Girls Will Cry. After reuniting with the Pumpkins on stage last year to perform “The Everlasting Gaze,” she’s set to join Love on the road in the near future.” #NonFiction #Booksky #Musicsky

The 2026 Aspen Words Literary Prize shortlist is out! Winner announced on April 23, 2026 - sign up to livestream. #AspenLitPrize #LitFic #Booksky

We are very pleased that both Elizabeth Alker and Ian Leslie have been shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize Shortlist.

The 2026 Shields Prize Longlist! On behalf of the Jury, Carmen Maria Machado shared: “It’s been such an honor and a privilege to encounter this body of work by women and non-binary authors, who are writing some of the most exciting literature...” carolshieldsprizeforfiction.com/2026-longlist 🧵 1/5

My latest haul… Have you read any of them, or on your reading list? #StackSaturday #LitFic #Booksky 📸📚💙

This happened. The print interview was edited in ways that feel very jumpy, but I got to say some things. Like: Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war. [and then there's a crazy jump-cut w/out transition.]

The 2026 #WomensPrize for Fiction longlist💚 Which book will you be reading first? #WomensPrizeforFiction

Happy Hump Day! Starting Wild People Quiet by Tara Gereaux, and such a lovely cover… With the sunshine and melting snow outside, feels like we truly are over the hump! #CurrentlyReading #CanLit #Booksky 📸📚💙

Now is a great time to read this great Melissa Auf der Maur profile that published a few days ago www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/a...

Happy March, and Happy Bookstaversary to me! 🥳 Seven years on Bookstagram already… do we follow each other? #BookshelfSunday #Booksky #BookskyGram 📸📚💙

“My personal belief is that we turn to postapocalyptic fiction not because we’re drawn to disaster, per se, but because we’re drawn to what we imagine might come next. We long secretly for a world with less technology in it.” ~Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquilty #CanLit #Booksky

Growing up, Tara Gereaux knew her grandfather was Métis, but she was always told to tell people the family was French. In Wild People Quiet, she explores the factors that led him and many other Métis to keep their heritage hidden. Read the interview at https://bit.ly/4kYvox9

“The two-time Oscar winner is set to play Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, in Starburns Industries’ live-action/stop-motion animation hybrid movie Lincoln in the Bardo based on George Saunders’ New York Times bestseller and 2017 Booker Prize winner.” #Booksky

Foe, by Iain Reid, is an elegantly written and moving story about simple life in an ever more complex world. Also, on the #CanadaReads’ shortlist this year! “I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.” ~Charles Baudelaire #SentenceSunday #CanLit #Booksky

“Ma had said she would give the cordwainer man a baby—the thing he could not get from his dull-as-ditchwater wife—and we would get a roof in return.” ~Rosanna Pike, A Little Trickerie #FirstLineFriday #LiteraryFiction #Booksky

Introducing Partita, the new novel from the Pulitzer and Women’s Prize winning author of Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver. Coming October 2026, cover to be revealed. faber.co.uk/journal/faber-announces-barbara-kingsolvers-new-novel

“it is well to hear, to become aware of, the operations of water among whose spider lacings by chance we live…” James Agee in 1941, superb on the life and liveliness of rivers. A river as a “huge, casual and aloof creature”. That trifecta of adjectives (not to mention the choice of noun)…

The Little Bird That Could 🧡 #Birds #BirdWatching #Mtl