Libarbarian
@libarbarian.bsky.social
Peter Bailey. Tilter at windmills. Library nerd. Beer guy. Power pop fan.
Don't forget the Winnipeg Goldeyes!
November 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Don't forget the Winnipeg Goldeyes!
Fantastic freshly harvested fresh hop pale ale from Sidney's Small Gods Brewing and Victoria's Whistle Buoy Brewing. Fresh Cowichan Valley hops from Maple Bay Hops and Field Five Farms malt from North Saanich. With Jim Crace's 2013 novel, Harvest. #craftbeer
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Fantastic freshly harvested fresh hop pale ale from Sidney's Small Gods Brewing and Victoria's Whistle Buoy Brewing. Fresh Cowichan Valley hops from Maple Bay Hops and Field Five Farms malt from North Saanich. With Jim Crace's 2013 novel, Harvest. #craftbeer
A lovely evening at Beth Shalom for a Kristallnacht commemoration with Bonny Reichert, and her memoir, How to Share an Egg, with @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social. Food is the key to Bonny's life story, including growing up in Edmonton, and her father Saul Reichert's story of surviving the Holocaust.
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
A lovely evening at Beth Shalom for a Kristallnacht commemoration with Bonny Reichert, and her memoir, How to Share an Egg, with @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social. Food is the key to Bonny's life story, including growing up in Edmonton, and her father Saul Reichert's story of surviving the Holocaust.
Two great story collections from Edmonton literary power couple Blaine Newton (2025) and Leslie Greentree (2022). (Both U of C Press). You might run into them holding court at Irrational Brewing.
November 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Two great story collections from Edmonton literary power couple Blaine Newton (2025) and Leslie Greentree (2022). (Both U of C Press). You might run into them holding court at Irrational Brewing.
The 2025 short story collection by Tim Bowling, on the shortlist of the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. My favourite story in this is, "Bartleby, the Sessional", set in a lecture hall at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. #ABbooks
November 4, 2025 at 3:11 AM
The 2025 short story collection by Tim Bowling, on the shortlist of the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. My favourite story in this is, "Bartleby, the Sessional", set in a lecture hall at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. #ABbooks
The classic 1969 novel by Robert Kroetsch (Macmillan, Toronto), with the iconic scene of a stampede of horses across Edmonton's High Level Bridge. #ABbooks
November 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
The classic 1969 novel by Robert Kroetsch (Macmillan, Toronto), with the iconic scene of a stampede of horses across Edmonton's High Level Bridge. #ABbooks
The 1948 debut novel from Henry Kreisel, a Jewish man who escaped Austria in 1938 and ended up an esteemed English professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. The Rich Man is set in 1930's Toronto.
November 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
The 1948 debut novel from Henry Kreisel, a Jewish man who escaped Austria in 1938 and ended up an esteemed English professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. The Rich Man is set in 1930's Toronto.
Happy Alberta Book Day! That is, books published in Alberta by Alberta-based publishers. It ain't easy, so kudos to them. And kudos to books published by Alberta authors and Alberta-set books too. I did a bike ride in Edmonton as an homage to them all. @abbookpub.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Happy Alberta Book Day! That is, books published in Alberta by Alberta-based publishers. It ain't easy, so kudos to them. And kudos to books published by Alberta authors and Alberta-set books too. I did a bike ride in Edmonton as an homage to them all. @abbookpub.bsky.social
What's this then? A documentary film about legendary Edmonton storyteller Tony Cashman? I'm there! I hope @anakanaschofield.bsky.social can make it too! Broadview Film Festival broadviewfilmfest.com/festival/ #yeg
November 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
What's this then? A documentary film about legendary Edmonton storyteller Tony Cashman? I'm there! I hope @anakanaschofield.bsky.social can make it too! Broadview Film Festival broadviewfilmfest.com/festival/ #yeg
Open Brew Day at Edmonton's Blind Enthusiasm Brewing. Open house and field trip day for beer nerds. October 25 to 6pm. #craftbeer
October 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Open Brew Day at Edmonton's Blind Enthusiasm Brewing. Open house and field trip day for beer nerds. October 25 to 6pm. #craftbeer
In order to save the village we had to destroy it.
October 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
In order to save the village we had to destroy it.
Montréal Mordecai Richler tour: reading Duddy Kravitz, bologna sandwich at Wilensky's Lunch and a Molson Export at Winnie's Pub.
September 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Montréal Mordecai Richler tour: reading Duddy Kravitz, bologna sandwich at Wilensky's Lunch and a Molson Export at Winnie's Pub.
On to the next chapter. Turning the page. All that. My last day as CEO of St. Albert Public Library, Friday.
August 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
On to the next chapter. Turning the page. All that. My last day as CEO of St. Albert Public Library, Friday.
Pride Parade is back in Edmonton after a 7 year absence! Welcome back!
August 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Pride Parade is back in Edmonton after a 7 year absence! Welcome back!
Summer ain't over! Keep reading, pals.
~ Cartoon by Tom Gauld, from "Revenge of the Librarians".
~ Cartoon by Tom Gauld, from "Revenge of the Librarians".
August 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Summer ain't over! Keep reading, pals.
~ Cartoon by Tom Gauld, from "Revenge of the Librarians".
~ Cartoon by Tom Gauld, from "Revenge of the Librarians".
I didn't so much heckle as groan and guffaw at Smith's blatant lies and absolute bullshit. Many of us laughed when she opened the event with this whopper: "When Edmonton speaks, we listen”.
August 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I didn't so much heckle as groan and guffaw at Smith's blatant lies and absolute bullshit. Many of us laughed when she opened the event with this whopper: "When Edmonton speaks, we listen”.
August 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Interesting! So is the line in Little Bones, "Famous last words taken all wrong" referring to Findley's novel?
August 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Interesting! So is the line in Little Bones, "Famous last words taken all wrong" referring to Findley's novel?
She looks like Eva Marie Saint in "On the Waterfront"
She reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance
~ "Rattlesnakes" - Lloyd Cole (1984)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSc4...
She reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance
~ "Rattlesnakes" - Lloyd Cole (1984)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSc4...
July 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
She looks like Eva Marie Saint in "On the Waterfront"
She reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance
~ "Rattlesnakes" - Lloyd Cole (1984)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSc4...
She reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance
~ "Rattlesnakes" - Lloyd Cole (1984)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSc4...
Big Rock Brewery goes all-in on a re-brand for its 40th anniversary, plus a new IPA (Wrangler) as one of their core beers. #craftbeer #abbeer calgaryherald.com/business/loc...
July 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Big Rock Brewery goes all-in on a re-brand for its 40th anniversary, plus a new IPA (Wrangler) as one of their core beers. #craftbeer #abbeer calgaryherald.com/business/loc...
Huzzah! Victoria Day in Edmonton in 1913 "was a day that will be long remembered". "The crowds were gay, buoyant, exuberant, care-free. Everybody seemed to have the holiday spirit." #yeg
May 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Huzzah! Victoria Day in Edmonton in 1913 "was a day that will be long remembered". "The crowds were gay, buoyant, exuberant, care-free. Everybody seemed to have the holiday spirit." #yeg
Better to light a candle (or carry a placard) than to curse the darkness (or curse Danielle Smith). Enough is Enough protest Saturday at #ableg.
May 12, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Better to light a candle (or carry a placard) than to curse the darkness (or curse Danielle Smith). Enough is Enough protest Saturday at #ableg.