#FirstLineFriday “When the Moon rose in the Third Northern Hall I went to the Ninth Vestibule to witness the joining of the three Tides." ~Susanna Clarke, Piranesi #CurrentlyReading #CurrentlyListening #Booksky 📚💙

The longlist is here! Any favourite(s)? “The collection of titles for 2026 showcase the power storytelling has to inspire, connect and grow — together.” #CanadaReads2026 #CanadaReads #CanLit #Booksky 📚💙

Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. She was also a prize-winning poet.

The #CanadaReads2026 longlist is out tomorrow, Jan 8… who else here is excited?! Shortlist & panellists to be announced Jan 22. Debates run from Apr 13-16. Read on, Canada! #CanadaReads #CanLit #Booksky 📚💙

#QuoteOfTheDay “Ride it like you own it, she said.” ~Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter How I feel about 2026…! #CurrentlyReading #Booksky 📚💙

#SentenceSunday “Vows, resolutions: he was twenty-nine years to heaven and must never feel this old again.” ~Kevin Barry, The Heart In Winter Happy 2026! Any resolutions? #CurrentlyReading #Booksky 📚💙

My top reads… Good bye, 2025! #LitFiction #NonFiction #Booksky 📚💙

“Everyone is ugly.” ~Souvankham Thammavongsa, Pick A Colour #FirstLineFriday #CurrentlyReading #CanLit #Booksky 📚💙

My 14 year old son Luca took me here after cricket training today. He said there is hope in that sky Mum, I’ve never seen anything like it, the locals said there are half a million starlings here. Keep your families close, hug your children, help those who need us, do a 1000 piece puzzle, enjoy!

#FirstLineFriday “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” ~Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway #CurrentlyListening #Booksky 📚💙

Six Canadian graphic novelists are being honoured with a set of stamps featuring their work. Click here for the full list: https://bit.ly/3KoaXM5

“Why was her legacy so sanitized? Why was my teacher so adamant that Montgomery couldn’t have suffered? Why were so many readers unaware — as I was up until two years ago — that Rilla of Ingleside isn’t actually where the story ends?” #AnneOfGreenGables #CanLit #Booksky 📚💙

Starting the week with Wallace Stegner‘s The Big Rock Candy Mountain. A story of displacement, opportunity and awakening. With beautiful descriptions of the time and of the land, I can’t wait to see where this adventure takes us! What are you reading today? #CurrentlyReading #Booksky 📚💙

Owl alert! You can listen back to my little snippet on #TawnyOwls now. Thanks agains so much to Sophie Anton for asking me to do this and to being so flexible so we could get it recorded easily and accessibly for me, and to Caz Graham for coming to do the recording. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Le prix Médicis est décerné à Emmanuel Carrère pour « Kolkhoze »

#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