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This is a must read for you Canadians. Rich Terfry (Buck 65) weaves together some incredibly entertaining tales of his journey from his childhood in the Maritimes, to CBC radio host and seasoned hip-hop artist. Highly recommended.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
We recently picked up a really nice illustrated volume of William Cowper's poetry with some beautiful gold gilding. We can't seem to find a date inside. If anyone has an idea, please let us know!
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November 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
We recently picked up a really nice illustrated volume of William Cowper's poetry with some beautiful gold gilding. We can't seem to find a date inside. If anyone has an idea, please let us know!
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Isaac Asimov is quite the wonder. Master of Science Fiction, Physics, Shakespeare, History and more. His passion for learning and writing were outstanding. It must be a wonderful feeling, to have something so special inside of you.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Isaac Asimov is quite the wonder. Master of Science Fiction, Physics, Shakespeare, History and more. His passion for learning and writing were outstanding. It must be a wonderful feeling, to have something so special inside of you.
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The loss of the great Daniel Naroditsky is immense. A legend on and off the board. He'll be missed.
We need something tonight to make us smile in light of such a tragic loss. John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces" should do nicely.
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We need something tonight to make us smile in light of such a tragic loss. John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces" should do nicely.
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October 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The loss of the great Daniel Naroditsky is immense. A legend on and off the board. He'll be missed.
We need something tonight to make us smile in light of such a tragic loss. John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces" should do nicely.
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#Chess
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We need something tonight to make us smile in light of such a tragic loss. John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces" should do nicely.
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#Chess
#AmReading
#Booksky
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Raymond Chandler. Master storyteller of Noir and the Hardboiled Detective. We find this genre to be incredibly entertaining, but also very underrated and even unknown to a lot of people out there today.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Raymond Chandler. Master storyteller of Noir and the Hardboiled Detective. We find this genre to be incredibly entertaining, but also very underrated and even unknown to a lot of people out there today.
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Wow. These stories from Stuart McLean are so great. They contain so much humour, heart, and real life. We’ve really fallen in love with them. Really, really impressed.
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October 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Wow. These stories from Stuart McLean are so great. They contain so much humour, heart, and real life. We’ve really fallen in love with them. Really, really impressed.
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It's good to sit down and crack open a window into the thoughts of great thinkers from the past. They're so different than those of today. There's a sense of substance and weight to them, unlike the majority of "thoughts" that get floated around today.
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October 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
It's good to sit down and crack open a window into the thoughts of great thinkers from the past. They're so different than those of today. There's a sense of substance and weight to them, unlike the majority of "thoughts" that get floated around today.
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Mythology. Nobody did it better than Edith Hamilton. The way she lays out the stories, connects them, and created these amazing family trees for further depth...is just unparalleled. The House of Atreus is a terrifying tale for this spooky season.
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October 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Mythology. Nobody did it better than Edith Hamilton. The way she lays out the stories, connects them, and created these amazing family trees for further depth...is just unparalleled. The House of Atreus is a terrifying tale for this spooky season.
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October 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Reading takes time. Give yourself that time. Or else it will get taken from you. So much benefit from reading, so little from the dopamine driven 20 second clips on social media.
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October 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Reading takes time. Give yourself that time. Or else it will get taken from you. So much benefit from reading, so little from the dopamine driven 20 second clips on social media.
#amwriting #writers #writersofbluesky #writing #booksky #writingcommunity #writersnetwork #authorsky #writesky #writer
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Is there a book that so wonderfully captures and interlaces coziness, humour, wholesomeness, and adventure quite like Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows? We think not, but if you know of any top contenders, please do let us know.
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October 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This is a madness of which we never want to be cured. Behold, Nicholas Bisbanes tome "A Gentle Madness". A book about bibliophiles. In it, he tells a tale of a gentlemen who could apparently identify any of his personal library books by smell alone. Amazing.
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September 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This is a madness of which we never want to be cured. Behold, Nicholas Bisbanes tome "A Gentle Madness". A book about bibliophiles. In it, he tells a tale of a gentlemen who could apparently identify any of his personal library books by smell alone. Amazing.
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Lately when reading, we've taken up the habit of looking up words in an actual dictionary. It just feels better when you work for it, when you extract the knowledge from another book, instead of looking it up on your phone or asking a smart device to do the work for you.
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September 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Lately when reading, we've taken up the habit of looking up words in an actual dictionary. It just feels better when you work for it, when you extract the knowledge from another book, instead of looking it up on your phone or asking a smart device to do the work for you.
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Don't you just love it when they design the spines of books like this?
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September 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Don't you just love it when they design the spines of books like this?
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We love the work of Edward Hopper, and have been looking forward to reading this for quite some time now. His artistic style is so unique. So far we've only managed to procure one of his pieces. Route 6, Eastham. Can't wait to start the book.
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September 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We love the work of Edward Hopper, and have been looking forward to reading this for quite some time now. His artistic style is so unique. So far we've only managed to procure one of his pieces. Route 6, Eastham. Can't wait to start the book.
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“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.”
-Walt Whitman
Check out this wonderful cloth edition of Leaves of Grass, complimented by beautiful illustrations created by Lewis C. Daniel.
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-Walt Whitman
Check out this wonderful cloth edition of Leaves of Grass, complimented by beautiful illustrations created by Lewis C. Daniel.
#WaltWhitman
#Poetry
#Books
#Booksky
September 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.”
-Walt Whitman
Check out this wonderful cloth edition of Leaves of Grass, complimented by beautiful illustrations created by Lewis C. Daniel.
#WaltWhitman
#Poetry
#Books
#Booksky
-Walt Whitman
Check out this wonderful cloth edition of Leaves of Grass, complimented by beautiful illustrations created by Lewis C. Daniel.
#WaltWhitman
#Poetry
#Books
#Booksky
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We found some stellar work of yours at our local used book store. Perfect for this upcoming spooky season. Support your local used book stores, everyone.
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We found some stellar work of yours at our local used book store. Perfect for this upcoming spooky season. Support your local used book stores, everyone.
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September 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
@stephenking.bsky.social
We found some stellar work of yours at our local used book store. Perfect for this upcoming spooky season. Support your local used book stores, everyone.
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We found some stellar work of yours at our local used book store. Perfect for this upcoming spooky season. Support your local used book stores, everyone.
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#UsedBooks
Just received Endgame in the mail. The rise and fall of Bobby Fischer. One of the all time greats of chess. Has anyone seen the movie Pawn Sacrifice, starring Tobey Maguire as Bobby? Excellent film.
September 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Just received Endgame in the mail. The rise and fall of Bobby Fischer. One of the all time greats of chess. Has anyone seen the movie Pawn Sacrifice, starring Tobey Maguire as Bobby? Excellent film.
We’ve been reading George du Maurier‘s “Peter Ibbetson”. What a wonderful, dream-filled journey.
September 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
We’ve been reading George du Maurier‘s “Peter Ibbetson”. What a wonderful, dream-filled journey.
"A room without books is like a body without a soul.'' - Marcus Tullius Cicero
May 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"A room without books is like a body without a soul.'' - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." – Plato
April 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." – Plato