Ryan
@mcryan.bsky.social
soi-disant reader, writer, poet, socialist. 🇨🇦 he/him. https://ryanm.ca
How to Pronounce Michael Ondaatje
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July 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
From the ever clever and talented @brianbilston.bsky.social. #poetry
July 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
From the ever clever and talented @brianbilston.bsky.social. #poetry
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I’m no expert but I would’ve got a person to do it.
July 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I’m no expert but I would’ve got a person to do it.
Feeling this one by Rudy Francisco.
June 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Feeling this one by Rudy Francisco.
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@andybest.bsky.social And so it begins. (I was serious about that membership card lol)
May 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
@andybest.bsky.social And so it begins. (I was serious about that membership card lol)
Finished Scott Alexander Howard's The Other Valley the other day. A lovely speculative story that seeps into you like a morning mist and asks you to consider what you would do if your past and future were only a hike away. #CanLit
April 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Finished Scott Alexander Howard's The Other Valley the other day. A lovely speculative story that seeps into you like a morning mist and asks you to consider what you would do if your past and future were only a hike away. #CanLit
Every once in a while my printer will randomly run a short feed cycle or something... and I've started thinking of it as the printer sighing. Never has its ennui been more relatable. I get why you refuse to connect. I see you.
April 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Every once in a while my printer will randomly run a short feed cycle or something... and I've started thinking of it as the printer sighing. Never has its ennui been more relatable. I get why you refuse to connect. I see you.
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Great list of Canadian presses for those looking to support Canadian books! #CanLit
What does it mean for a book to be fully Canadian-made? LPG publishers are committed to keeping Canadian stories, talent, and production close to home, checking all the boxes.
April 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Great list of Canadian presses for those looking to support Canadian books! #CanLit
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CBC Books - 39 Canadian poetry collections coming out in spring 2025 #CanLit #CanPo #NPM2025
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39 Canadian poetry collections coming out in spring 2025 | CBC Books
Here are the Canadian poetry collections we are excited about this spring!
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April 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
CBC Books - 39 Canadian poetry collections coming out in spring 2025 #CanLit #CanPo #NPM2025
www.cbc.ca/books/39-can...
www.cbc.ca/books/39-can...
Very excited to have provided interior design for this lovely book. Amazing photos by Marty Gervais interwoven with beautiful poems by Kim Fahner (kimfahner.bsky.social), Micheline Maylor (michelinemaylor.bsky.social), Teajai Travis, John B Lee and Peter Hrastovec. blackmosspress.com/product/and-...
April 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Very excited to have provided interior design for this lovely book. Amazing photos by Marty Gervais interwoven with beautiful poems by Kim Fahner (kimfahner.bsky.social), Micheline Maylor (michelinemaylor.bsky.social), Teajai Travis, John B Lee and Peter Hrastovec. blackmosspress.com/product/and-...
Today's Goodwill book haul
March 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Today's Goodwill book haul
Happy Caesar Stabbing Day, for those that celebrate.
March 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Happy Caesar Stabbing Day, for those that celebrate.
Good read. "I think that both conservatives and progressives see the library, and especially the school library, as a microcosm of society. They think [...] that they can reshape society by transforming the library." #canlit #bookbans
"I Cannot Praise a Fugitive and Cloister'd Virtue"
An interview with Ira Wells, author of On Book Banning
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February 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Having watched the various TV adaptations and visited Green Gables in PEI, it's a wonder it's taken this long, but I've finally started reading Anne of Green Gables for the first time. Still early pages, but enjoying it so far. #canlit
February 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Having watched the various TV adaptations and visited Green Gables in PEI, it's a wonder it's taken this long, but I've finally started reading Anne of Green Gables for the first time. Still early pages, but enjoying it so far. #canlit
A great read. Buy #indiebooks from #indiebookstores.
February 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A great read. Buy #indiebooks from #indiebookstores.
Part 1 of my (this never happens) weekly reading roundup. Finished my first-ever romance novel, The Kiss Quotient. About as formulaic as I expected (not a negative, I wanted to learn the genre tropes). Spicier than I expected 👀. Not rushing for another but I liked it.
February 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Part 1 of my (this never happens) weekly reading roundup. Finished my first-ever romance novel, The Kiss Quotient. About as formulaic as I expected (not a negative, I wanted to learn the genre tropes). Spicier than I expected 👀. Not rushing for another but I liked it.
More related to the link I posted yesterday re: S&S doing away with blurbs.
February 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
More related to the link I posted yesterday re: S&S doing away with blurbs.
Both bits of Ken Whyte's new post are good reads. The first on silliness of Amzn and "The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to his son" and the second on why Simon & Schuster publisher Sean Manning is doing away with book blurbs.
A buffoon's guide to wealth
The Junkification of Amazon, Part 373
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January 31, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Both bits of Ken Whyte's new post are good reads. The first on silliness of Amzn and "The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to his son" and the second on why Simon & Schuster publisher Sean Manning is doing away with book blurbs.
Re-reading Huck Finn in prep for reading Percival Everett's James and came across this. Did Twain inspire Lee and Ditko?
January 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Re-reading Huck Finn in prep for reading Percival Everett's James and came across this. Did Twain inspire Lee and Ditko?