#booksky 💙📚

I posted three collections that might be good for folks who want to start reading poetry.

Elemental by Kate Braid

People You Know, Places You've Been by Hana Shafi

body works by dennis cooley

www.trishtalksbooks.com/2025/04/dont...

More suggestions? These are all CanLit 🇨🇦

What if the moon just suddenly turned into cheese? You'll have to read John Scalzi's #WhenTheMoonHitsYourEye to find out his take. I quite liked it! 📚💙 #booksky
@torbooks.bsky.social @netgalley.bsky.social
Review: www.instagram.com/p/DHoc7d2yLIQ/

"The novel’s language is rich, lush, meaty, bloody. It felt like reading a distillation of many of my fears, a mash-up of authoritarianism, climate disaster, patriarchy and theocracy. Not for the faint of heart." My review of #TheUnworthy by Bazterrica:
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#booksky 💙📚

Anna Karenina: Readalong! Reading Tolstoy's  War and Peace three years ago was a revelation, because I'd always been intimidated by classic Russian literature, and...

I hosted an Anna Karenina readalong and blogged about each day's reading. I hope it can serve as a framework and some commentary for others who are interested in reading this Tolstoy tome. Feel free to check it out and pass it long!
#booksky 💙📚 #tolstoy
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Screenshot of ORIGINS OF DESIRE IN ORCHID FENS Netgalley page on a background of wild orchids. The first 5-star review is superimposed over the screenshot. It reads: There are many different types of horror throughout this novella. There is the Romani diaspora; the revenge of the panni raklies, a group of water spirits who have been murdered; and the climate horror of the attack of the mine on the wetland. The story is told through lyrical, descriptive mini-chapters that bring life to the fens. 5 stars.

Lynn Hutchinson Lee's ORIGINS OF DESIRE IN ORCHID FENS is finally up on Netgalley. Grab a copy of this dreamy, eerie, and poignant Canadian debut before the end of the month. It already has its first 5-star review!

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Our latest #CanuckReads book club will be reading Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese and meeting to discuss (online) on March 29 at 11am PST. Visit my post for details. We read CanLit! #BookSky 📚💙
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#canlit poetry! "If you like your poetry shaken, not stirred, this may be the collection for you." My thoughts on "realia" by Saskatchewan poet Michael Trussler. #BookSky @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social @radiantpress.bsky.social
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Black History Month Picks for 2025 · Lists · 49th Shelf Dive in to these new and recent books about Black History in Canada

Dive into these new and recent books about Black history in Canada! And pro-tip – they're not just for you to read in February...every month is Black history month! 49thshelf.com/Lists/Member... #DiverseCanLit #BlackHistoryMonth #CanLit

I've felt recently that there are many books billed as short story collections that are so interconnected that they almost should be a novel. This one is marketed as a novel and could be interconnected short stories...the lines are blurry!

Canada Reads is back! Join @jcyliew.bsky.social, author of the shortlisted novel Dandelion, and her champion Saïd M’Dahoma for a thought-provoking conversation on Monday, March 3, leading up to Canada Reads.

Tickets: https://buff.ly/4hUWRgp

It's my mid-winter Canadian produce haul! Amazing what you can find when you're seeking it out. I'll be exploring how I can change my eating habits and finding new recipes to eat more locally and Canadian. Small changes...😍 🇨🇦
#BuyCanadian

Have you read Held, by Anne Michaels? I did, and it is amazing. What a beautiful meditation on love, loss, trauma and interconnectedness. Here's my Bookstagram reflection. #BookSky
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Discover why THE JAGUAR MASK by Michael J. DeLuca made the 2024 Recommended Reading List - www.stelliform.press...

The cover of Playing Hard: A Life and Death in Games, Sports and Play by Peter Unwin, featuring an archival photograph of two men playing soccer, with a crowd of spectators in the background. Beyond them, the roof of a large building is seen.

Our #fridayreads pick is this sneak-peek excerpt of Peter Unwin's memoir PLAYING HARD, releasing next week from @cormorantbooks.bsky.social. Read on for a tender moment of wartime (and soccer) reminisces between father and son.

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Jamie Chai Yun Liew, photographed by Kenya-Jade Pinto, and the cover of her book “Dandelion,” with a Canada Reads 2025 selection seal on it. Text reads: “Congratulations to Jamie Chai Yun Liew. ‘Dandelion,’ a Canada Reads 2025 finalist! Arsenal Pulp Press. arsenal pulp [dot] com”

Canada Reads 2025 champions, including Säid M'Dhoma, champion of "Dandelion" by Jamie Chai Yun Liew, posing with their respective books. Photo courtesy of CBC. Text reads: “Canada Reads, March 17-20, 2025”

Congrats to Jamie Chai Yun Liew (@jcyliew.bsky.social), whose debut novel, #Dandelion, has been shortlisted for #CanadaReads 2025! 🌼

Tune in March 17–20, 2025, to see pastry chef Saïd M’Dahoma, aka "The Pastry Nerd," champion the book.

👉 Read more: arsenalpulp.com/News/2025/Ja...

This one's up next for me to read! #CanadaReads

Buy and read Canadian books. We make some of the best!
@mandagroup.bsky.social @alllitupcanada.bsky.social

I've posted my thoughts about a Canadian classic novel: Gabrielle Roy's The Tin Flute (1945), which set the stage for Quebec's 1960s Quiet Revolution. #canlit #readcanadian #BookSky 🇨🇦
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My review of Neal Shusterman's All Better Now is up on Bookstagram today. It's about a viral pandemic but if you survive, you're blissed out and want to do good. The rich and powerful don't love it, of course. All sorts of interesting questions arise. #BookSky
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SHADOWS OF TYRANNY - Ken McGoogan

Read the review at:
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/shadows-of...

#Shadowsoftyranny #KenMcGoogan #DouglasMcIntyre #TheSeaboardReview #TSR #canuckreads #canlit #readcanada #wwiireads #spanishcivilwarreads

After travelling to Japan this spring and searching out vegan and vegetarian food there, I was happy to cook from #VeganJapan by Julia Boucachard. It's out now from indie publisher The Experiment! Thanks to them and NetGalley for a copy.
My review and photos:
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Icymi, it's a great time to develop a sporror habit 🍄

Let's make a "notable small press books of 2024" list! Any genre, 2024 release, small/university/indie press.

I will start with two I loved
Nicole Haroutunian's CHOOSE THIS NOW (Noemi Press);
@janellebassett.bsky.social's THANKS FOR THIS RIOT (@univnebpress.bsky.social)

Please add yours & share!

I'll add two 2024 releases from @stelliform.press that I enjoyed. Zebra Meridian by Geoffrey W. Cole is a great sci Fi short story collection; and You Will Speak for the Dead by @rabusby.bsky.social is an eerie novella featuring fungi.

Paperback copy of Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris on a weathered wooden surface. Cover image is the head and shoulders of a woman illustrated primarily in black and green, with pupil-less yellow eyes. Tendrils snake away from the woman's mouth.

#Novellavember Novella #1!

Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris, from @stelliform.press

🐸 Swampcore
🌿 Ominous fecundity
👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏼 Doomed sapphic relationship
🖤 The isolation of grief
🍄 Lichens & mosses & fungus, oh my!
💭 Lucid dreaming???
🖼️ Art as language
🔥 Indigenous climate fiction

I loved Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass. Now I've had the opportunity to read her essay on how the serviceberry teaches us about thoughtful human interactions with each other and the natural environment, through an Indigenous lens.
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