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David Archimbo
@alex-archimbo.bsky.social
Writer, hopeless optimist, lover of pigeons, gardener and family man.
Alexa, make me happy
September 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
August 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Anyone else looking for a very specific way to indulge in their nostalgia for the St Henri borough of Montreal circa 2009/10?

You’re welcome.
CAFé CAFé the Movie [2013]
YouTube video by Eric Amber
m.youtube.com
June 6, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Why? Because the title of a good book is like a stone you hold on your tongue. No one can see it, but you feel that it’s there. Keeping you cool. Keeping your attention. Keeping you from speaking irrevocable things…
May 9, 2025 at 6:01 AM

Just Let Me Look at You - Bill Gaston (Memoir)

The Life & Art of George Fertig - Mona Fertig (from series ‘The Unheralded Artists of BC’)

The Literary Storefront: Glory Years - Trevor Carolyn

Things That Keep and Do Not Change - Susan Musgrave (poems)
May 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM

Carlos Castaneda - The Teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui Way of Knowledge

Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus

David Chariandy - Brother

Vancouver in the Seventies; Photos from a decade that changed the city - Kate Bird ed.
April 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Now back to the list, because life goes on…


The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy (essays)

Frank Zimmerman - The Inner World of Qohelet

Jen Neale - Land Mammals and Sea Creatures

George Saunders - Lincoln on the Bardo
April 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
My fantastic publisher (and publisher of so damn many wonderful books of poetry, fiction, memoir, etc) just joined Bluesky!

Welcome @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Times are such that if I listen to music, I wind up thinking about politics, so to quiet my mind I listen to non-stop politics podcasts.
April 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
look Ma, my book made it into the Atlantic!
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM

Two Generals - graphic novel by Scott Chantler

Euclid’s Orchard - essays by Theresa Kishkan

The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy - essays
March 17, 2025 at 5:31 AM

Choosing the War and the Hurricane - Paul Beatty & Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation

Guy Delisle - More Bad Parenting Advice

Thomas Bernhardt - Extinction

Abu Bakr Al-Rabeeah & Winnie Yeung - Homes, A Refugee Story
February 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM

Dave Egger’s - The Monk of Mohka

Wioletta Greg - Swallowing Mercury

A Flag on the Island - stories by V.S. Naipaul

Haruki Murakami - Colorless Tsukuru & His Years of Pilgrimage
February 13, 2025 at 6:27 AM

Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell

The Assassination of Federico Garcia Lorca, by Ian Gibson

Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondaatje
January 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM

50th Anniversary Issue of the Paris Review (2003)

Selected Poems of Frederico Garcia Lorca

Slouching Towards Bethlehem
by Joan Didion
January 27, 2025 at 6:22 AM

The City is a Rising Tide
by Rebecca Lee

All Said and Done
by Simone de Beauvoir
(autobiography)

18 Stories
by Heinrich Boll
January 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM

Threads: From the Refugee Crisis, by Kate Evans (graphic novel)

Men Without Women
by Haruki Murakami (short stories)

84, Charing Cross Road
by Helen Hanff
January 9, 2025 at 5:15 AM

Body Music, by Julie Maroh (graphic novel)

Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut

The Closed Circle, by Jonathan Coe
January 7, 2025 at 3:21 AM

Rotter’s Club, by Jonathan Coe
January 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I will now list books at random. These are not my favourite books, just books I have read, at one time or another…
January 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM