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texdaw.bsky.social
Words of deep insight from a master storyteller. #ondaatje #sagacity #booksky #menreading #bodieswithbooks #thecatstable
February 9, 2026 at 1:10 PM
laurenleblanc.bsky.social
st. lucy's home for girls raised by wolves: karen russell, divisadero: michael ondaatje, the uses of enchantment: heidi julavits, me & kaminski: daniel kehlmann, varieties of disturbance: lydia davis, what i talk about when i talk about running: haruki murakami, brother, i'm dying: edwidge danticat
February 4, 2026 at 5:51 PM
lunalein.bsky.social
Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje
January 31, 2026 at 3:33 PM
pearwaldorf.myatproto.social
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college

* Atwood and Ondaatje (not the name of the class but it was what we read)
* International Studies
* Buddhist Art
* Tolkien
* History of Popular Music

Bonus: Biology for majors (which I flunked miserably)
ripeteeth.bsky.social sickorax @ripeteeth.bsky.social · 14d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college

- Historiography
- History of Modern China
- Bible As Story
- Arthurian Legend
- Forensic Anthropology

(Bonus: Oil Painting)
coreopsismajor.bsky.social Mx. Coreo Jones @coreopsismajor.bsky.social · 14d
Religion and Politics in Modern Europe
Cellular Biology: The Cytoplasm
Second Year Russian
Molecular Genetics of Eukaryotes
New Testament History and Literature
January 31, 2026 at 12:25 AM
texdaw.bsky.social
Currently reading Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table. #currentlyreading #ondaatje #thecatstable #menreading #gayreader #gaywriter
January 27, 2026 at 2:07 PM
quillandquire.bsky.social
Quill & Quire's Spring Preview this week features short fiction, graphic novels, and poetry, from Michael Ondaatje, Mark Anthony Jarman, Michael DeForge and more: https://bit.ly/3NwOCgx
January 22, 2026 at 5:26 PM
moodogpress.com
“From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.”

Michael Ondaatje
The English Patient
Painted black bird to which someone has added a googly eye.
January 19, 2026 at 1:00 AM
ryanklindsay.bsky.social
Last day of 2025 and I finished reading a gap in my Ondaatje reading. A lowkey emotional journey through the fragments of childhood and we remember what shapes us. Makes me want to message old friends. Quite nice.
December 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
thedaybooks.bsky.social
If you start reading your way through Ondaatje, pay attention to who has the explosives, why, and what they do with them.

The love stories are fine if you like that sort of thing.
December 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
vaniaschiff.bsky.social
The Conversations was my introduction to Murch. Ways of seeing, hearing, creating — fascinating stuff, really generative. Hadn’t watched The Conversation 😳, but finally did after coming across a Radio 3 Sound of Cinema ep (still available) where Murch is interviewed.
Book cover shows seven film stills. Title over black section reads ‘The Conversations(:) Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film(.) Michael Ondaatje’.
December 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
npitchford.bsky.social
Listening as I drive to Anil’s Ghost (Ondaatje) & thinking of all us immigrants loving & mythologising the American Southwest in our distinct & peculiar ways. Knowing that this love from my own people has blurred too much with colonisation & possession. A pseudo-love that bulldozes respect.
Golden bare grass hills beside a curving highway, and mist hanging in the clefts between. A still boat of water between hills, reflecting the pale blue early morning sky. Hazy light. Dry teasels on the near shore.
September 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
lheuredelasortie.bsky.social
« Le Patient Anglais » de Anthony Minghella . Critique Blu Ray www.lheuredelasortie.com/critique-blu...

L’adaptation du célèbre roman de Michael Ondaatje, qui de l’abstraction littéraire au regard cinématographie nous offre un grand et beau voyage dans l’Histoire des peuples.
« Le Patient Anglais » de Anthony Minghella . Critique Blu Ray - L'heure de la sortie
Meilleur dvd Février 2012 ( 5 ème ) Adapter «  un recueil de pensées, d’idées et de sentiments » . C
www.lheuredelasortie.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Michael Ondaatje, the award-winning poet & novelist, was born in Sri Lanka #OnThisDay in 1943.

@ransomcenter.bsky.social acquired Ondaatje's archive in 2017, which includes this notebook containing the 1st draft of his novel, The English Patient.

sites.utexas.edu/ransomcenter... #booksky 🗃️📜📚
Notebook containing the first draft of Michael Ondaatje’s novel “The English Patient,” 1988. Photo by Pete Smith. Harry Ransom Center University of Texas at Austin
September 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
enchantrasand.bsky.social
After reading the absolutely magnificent WARLIGHT I want to read all of his work - hating the film version of The English Patient put me off for years. 🖊️📚💙 Warlight by
Michael Ondaatje
304 pages • first pub 2018 #FiveStarReads
Warlight Michael Ondaatje 304 pages • first pub 2018
September 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
normagraham.bsky.social
Jane, have you read “Anil’s Ghost” by Michael Ondaatje?
October 13, 2023 at 5:29 PM
meikle.bsky.social
Went to Cate Blanchett’s flat-warming party, super-early in her career, because she was in a play at the theatre company where my wife worked.

Around the time ’The English Patient’ won the Booker Prize, we took Michael Ondaatje to the pub after a bookshop reading.

Both very, very lovely people
beansinyourbum.bsky.social Bary Garlow @beansinyourbum.bsky.social · Aug 23
Who's the most famous person you've ever met?
August 23, 2024 at 6:13 PM
nowsentient.bsky.social
Robertson Davies
Pierre Burton
Margaret Atwood
Mordecai Richler
Michael Ondaatje
Farley Mowat
Alice Munro …

We’ve got some absolute treasures.
January 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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MICHAEL ONDAATJE, from @newyorktimes.bsky.social
September 20, 2023 at 5:24 PM
eolai.bsky.social
Another of those good days. Because it's a day I've finished reading a book so get to go to my to-be-read piles and choose another. Rather loved "Warlight" by Michael Ondaatje, in its atmosphere, depth, mystery, and general gorgeousness in writing about love, growth, and the holes that memory are.
April 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
leahkrevit.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. In no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
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18/20
The cover of the print edition of The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje.
December 30, 2024 at 7:41 PM
laurylsilvers.bsky.social
DISGRACED: A TORONTO THRILLER IS STILL FREE UNTIL TOMORROW. I got a review that made me think the guy was high. I tried to write a trashy leftist novel and did not make it. Maybe this year is about believing in myself as a writer?
The novel reminded me of Michael Ondaatje In the Skin of A Lion (1987) that revolves around the fictionalized lives of the immigrants in Toronto of 1930’s. Disgraced shares the location and concern with lives of ordinary men and women who make this city work. Plot line moves fast, like the city itself, which seems to be always in a rush. What makes the Disgrace unique is the question it poses: What would happen when the lives of powerless ordinary people are left to the mercy of corporations that are only concerned with their bottom line at any cost? There was a time when you could read about the murder of labour union organizers (a true story) in Ondaatje’s novel In the Skin of A Lion, and shake your head at the grim reality of the Great Depression era brought about by an inhumane market economy. Now reading the Disgrace, both landscape and plotline looks so frighteningly familiar that it did not hit me as a thriller, though there is much complexity, adventure, intrigue, and mystery in the story to satisfy the fans of the genre. The Disgrace spoke to me as a prophetic visionary novel, a warning against unbridled predatory greed that spawn disruptive acts of desperate vengeance. But the novel is not all doom and gloom. It shows much hope in embracing a comprehensive practice of justice tempered by compassion and love.”
January 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
bandytstamp.bsky.social
Michael Ondaatje, from A YEAR OF LAST THINGS

#smallpoemsunday
THE CABBAGETOWN PET CLINIC For years I wrote during the day above a veterinarian The howls, the heavy breathing, the sighs from that faraway untranslated world
June 9, 2024 at 4:53 PM
electricland.bsky.social
Off in the distance, Michael Ondaatje raises his head
February 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
thenakedreader.bsky.social
I gotta say, Ondaatje is one of those prolific writers I don’t quite get. I feel like he’s very…of his time? This is the third thing I’ve read by him, and didn’t love it 🤷‍♂️
Me standing naked in front of my bathroom holding a copy of Ondaatje’s A Year of Last Things, with the morning sun shining through the window on my body.
May 6, 2024 at 2:09 PM
coachdeneef.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Michael Ondaatje #Day3
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#BookChallenge
Cover of ‘There’s A Trick With A Knife I’m Leaning To Do’ showing a picture of a man on a chair in a suit throwing a knife with his foot at a woman against a board. The photo is circa early 1900s style.
December 9, 2024 at 4:05 PM