MJ Beauchamp
@mjnicefield.bsky.social
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
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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 📚💙
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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 📚💙
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 📚💙
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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/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Tweet of the Day - Polly Atkin on the Tawny Owl - BBC Sounds
For writer Polly Atkin the nighttime calls of tawny owls mean company and community.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Le prix Médicis est décerné à Emmanuel Carrère pour « Kolkhoze »
Le prix Médicis est décerné à Emmanuel Carrère pour « Kolkhoze »
L’écrivain est distingué pour ce livre dans lequel il retrouve sa mère, Hélène Carrère d’Encausse (1929-2023), historienne de la Russie et secrétaire perpétuelle de l’Académie française, avec laquelle les relations n’ont jamais été faciles.
www.lemonde.fr
November 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Le prix Médicis est décerné à Emmanuel Carrère pour « Kolkhoze »
Radiant and intimate, Bread of Angels is the first full memoir from legendary artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award winner Just Kids. [Sponsored] bookshop.org/p/books/brea...
November 5, 2025 at 5:55 AM
#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 📚💙
“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 📚💙
November 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
#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 📚💙
“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 📚💙
#NonFiction
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Melissa Auf der Maur Announces Memoir Even the Good Girls Will Cry
Former Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur has announced her first book, Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir.
consequence.net
October 31, 2025 at 1:19 AM
“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 📚💙
#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
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#NationalBookAwards
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76th National Book Awards
76th National Book Awards
www.nationalbook.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
“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 📚💙
#NationalBookAwards
#Booksky 📚💙
““Someone worked very hard,” David deadpanned. “Not me. I didn’t work on it at all.””
#LarryDavid
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#LarryDavid
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Larry David Goes on Late Night to Promote a Book He Says He Didn't Work On
Larry David appeared on Seth Meyers to promote a new book on the history of Curb Your Enthusiasm. He just wants to you know he put absolutely no work into it.
consequence.net
October 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
““Someone worked very hard,” David deadpanned. “Not me. I didn’t work on it at all.””
#LarryDavid
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#LarryDavid
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“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
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#ZoraNealeHurston
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Zora Neale Hurston's Forgotten Play Premieres on Stage for the First Time
Based on the author's short story and ethnographic fieldwork, "Spunk" languished in Library of Congress' archives for decades
www.smithsonianmag.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
“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 📚💙
#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 📚💙
“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 📚💙
October 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
#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 📚💙
“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 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 📚💙
October 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
#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 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
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#LászlóKrasznahorkai
#Booksky 📚💙
Nobel Prize in Literature 2025
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 was awarded to László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
www.nobelprize.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“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 📚💙
#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
#RIP
#IvanKlima
#Booksky
Ivan Klima, the best Czech novelist of his generation, has died.
One of the great Czech writers of the 20th century, Ivan Klima, died over the weekend at his home in Prague, at the age of 94. Klima lived an incredible, principled life, having survived both the N…
lithub.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
”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
#RIP
#IvanKlima
#Booksky
October 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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 📚💙
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 📚💙
October 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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 📚💙
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 📚💙
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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.
October 1, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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
#NationalDayForTruthAndReconciliation
#CanLit
#Booksky
Patty Krawec's 'must-read' books to reflect on the Indigenous experience in North America | CBC Books
Sept. 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. The Anishinaabe Ukrainian author and activist recommends 18 titles to read today and beyond.
www.cbc.ca
September 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“The Anishinaabe Ukrainian author, activist and former social worker recommends 18 titles”
#NationalDayForTruthAndReconciliation
#CanLit
#Booksky
#NationalDayForTruthAndReconciliation
#CanLit
#Booksky
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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
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
September 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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
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 📚💙
~Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
#QuoteOfTheDay
#Booksky 📚💙
September 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
“The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.“
~Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
#QuoteOfTheDay
#Booksky 📚💙
~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 📚💙
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 📚💙
September 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
“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 📚💙
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 📚💙
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📣 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...
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 Booker Prize 2025 Shortlist Announcement: Live Stream
YouTube video by Southbank Centre
www.youtube.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
📣 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...
A reminder to join our livestream from 7:30pm BST / 2:30pm EDT / 12am IST using this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6VO...
September 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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 📚💙
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 📚💙
September 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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 📚💙
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 📚💙
Reposted by MJ Beauchamp
Montreal's Joie de Livres aims to take joy seriously
https://bit.ly/3VJvUmE
https://bit.ly/3VJvUmE
September 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Montreal's Joie de Livres aims to take joy seriously
https://bit.ly/3VJvUmE
https://bit.ly/3VJvUmE
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Another National Book Award longlistee! This time for nonfiction ❤️ Congratulations, Omar El Akkad!
September 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Another National Book Award longlistee! This time for nonfiction ❤️ Congratulations, Omar El Akkad!