Advertisement · 728 × 90

Posts by Pauline Thompson

Preview
Donate to Mabel's Fables Next Chapter Fund, organized by Eleanor LeFave Mabel's Fables Bookstore opened at 662 Mount Pleasant Road, Toronto in September 1988… Eleanor LeFave needs your support for Mabel's Fables Next Chapter Fund

I love this bookstore! gofund.me/4027bb47

11 months ago 5 0 0 0
Preview
Carl Sagan on Mystery, Why Common Sense Blinds Us to the Universe, and How to Live with the Unknown “We are bathing in mystery and confusion… That will always be our destiny. The universe will always be much richer than our ability to understand it.”

Carl Sagan on how to live with mystery

1 year ago 22 5 0 0
Impact of retaliatory tariffs on indie bookstores
Impact of retaliatory tariffs on indie bookstores YouTube video by CTV News

Indie booksellers are already struggling & U.S./Canada tariff war could be disastrous for 🇨🇦indie bkstores.

Canadian bksellers have joined forces to ask govt to exempt BOOKS from the 25% counter-tariffs scheduled to start April 2nd (source: Publishers Weekly). #BookSky

youtu.be/sIwVgMYLlXo...

1 year ago 42 18 3 1

If you live in Canada and support independent bookstores, please make your voice heard! #CanKidLit #IndieBookstores #CanLit #BookSky

1 year ago 39 21 2 1
Website header for Bev Katz Rosenbaum. A vintage mint-green typewriter holds a sheet of paper that reads “Editrix and sometime writer.” Her name appears in large black hand-lettered text on a pale green background patterned with book icons. Navigation buttons include Home / Books, About, Praise, Editing Service & Testimonials, Newsletter, and Contact & School Visits.

Website header for Bev Katz Rosenbaum. A vintage mint-green typewriter holds a sheet of paper that reads “Editrix and sometime writer.” Her name appears in large black hand-lettered text on a pale green background patterned with book icons. Navigation buttons include Home / Books, About, Praise, Editing Service & Testimonials, Newsletter, and Contact & School Visits.

#CanKidLit 🇨🇦 freelance editor & YA author highlight: Bev Katz Rosenbaum aka @bevrosenbaum.bsky.social. EXCELLENT developmental editor for writers, highly recommend. Also available for #SchoolVisits! bevkatzrosenbaum.com/contact.html
#FreelanceEditor #YA

1 year ago 17 4 2 0
Preview
Bookstore worries tariffs could ‘completely collapse’ Canadian book industry - Halifax | Globalnews.ca The manager of the King's Co-Op Bookstore in Halifax says a 25 per cent tariff on books imported from the United States will put independent bookshops in a 'disastrous' situation.

globalnews.ca/news/1109106...

1 year ago 3 2 0 0
Consultations on Canada’s Response to United States Tariffs on Canadian Goods: Comment Submission Form

Tariffs on books will hurt Canadian authors with US publishers. A 25% tariff on all books coming from the US is going to hurt all our Canadian bookstores as well. Oppose these two specific codes: 4901.99.00 and 4903.00.00. Register your response here:

1 year ago 2 0 0 0

There's still time to register for this weekend's webinar!

1 year ago 7 2 0 0
Post image Post image

Hooray for a wonderful review of Hooray For DNA! by @the_inclusive_bookshelf on Instagram. A lovely start to the day. "But most of all, I love the implied message that we are all connected..." Full review here: www.instagram.com/p/DHiyhj8OGF... and here: @paulinethompson5022

1 year ago 4 0 0 0
Preview
Dirge Without Music: Emmy Noether, Symmetry, and the Conservation of Energy (Amanda Palmer Reads Edna St. Vincent Millay, Animated by Sophie Blackall) “Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you. Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.”

Born OTD in 1882, Emmy Noether fled from the Nazis to become one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, solving the puzzle that had stumped Einstein. Her remarkable story and the stunning Edna St. Vincent Millay poem read at her memorial, animated: https://

1 year ago 38 12 1 3
Advertisement
One Brief Shining Moment: Canada's Last Chance to Reclaim What Makes Us Not America
One Brief Shining Moment: Canada's Last Chance to Reclaim What Makes Us Not America YouTube video by Tod Maffin

So, we have an election date.
I have some thoughts.
#cdnpoli #canada

youtu.be/O1V1sQ_Rur0

1 year ago 197 44 9 5

Volant.

1 year ago 0 0 0 0

I do love a good rhyming romp!

1 year ago 1 0 0 0
Ep. 21: "Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Title" Starring John Lithgow
Ep. 21: "Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Title" Starring John Lithgow YouTube video by A Confederacy of Dumptys

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhM6...

1 year ago 2 0 1 0

So lovely to meet you last night Debbie. Nice pic too. I joined Bluesky because of you!

1 year ago 1 0 0 0