MJ Beauchamp
Montréal, QC
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- “I think it is possible to track the onset of middle age exactly.” ~Hari Kunzru, Red Pill A timely novel and commentary on history, politics, and current state of the world - Kunzru’s voice pertinent and refreshing. #FirstLineFriday #LitFiction #Booksky
- Reposted by MJ BeauchampThe Climate Fiction Prize 2026 longlist is here! 🤩📚 This longlist shows the limitless scope of climate fiction, from gripping thrillers to experimental literary works, folklore and reimagined myths to science fiction and generational family saga. Full list here: climatefictionprize.co.uk
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- “Louise Penny joins Mattea Roach live on-stage at Toronto’s historic Massey Hall, alongside nearly 2000 of Louise's fans, to discuss her long journey to becoming an author, why she’ll never tire of her characters and how pain has made her a better writer.” #LouisePenny #CanLit #Booksky
- Reposted by MJ BeauchampOver 24k overwintering Lapwing recorded on site today epic!
- Happy February! An extra cozy morning here in my little book nook… How’s your Sunday? #ShelfieSunday #Booksky
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- “Hello, this is Keith Morrison, I’m live with Dateline NBC.” ~Liann Zhang, Julie Chan Is Dead Any novel with a reference to my favourite true crime tv show, and Canadian icon Keith Morrison, has a key to my heart… #ThrillerThursday #CanLit #Booksky
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- Too cold to go out to the bookstore… Hope everyone is staying warm today! 💛 #Booksky
- Loghan Paylor’s The Cure for Drowning made the cut, and championed by Tegan Quin! #CanadaReads #CanLit #Booksky
- “Three Pines is a state of mind. When we choose tolerance over hate. Kindness over cruelty. Goodness over bullying. When we choose to be hopeful, not cynical. Then we live in Three Pines.” ~Louise Penny, Glass Houses #ThreePinesFriendly #CanLit #Booksky
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- “Birders have travelled from as far away as British Columbia. Everyone quietly gathers along the street in hopes of not scaring it off.“ A few days now… and still here! 🧡 #BirdLove #Birdsky #Montreal
- #FirstLineFriday “When the Moon rose in the Third Northern Hall I went to the Ninth Vestibule to witness the joining of the three Tides." ~Susanna Clarke, Piranesi #CurrentlyReading #CurrentlyListening #Booksky 📚💙
- The longlist is here! Any favourite(s)? “The collection of titles for 2026 showcase the power storytelling has to inspire, connect and grow — together.” #CanadaReads2026 #CanadaReads #CanLit #Booksky 📚💙
- Reposted by MJ BeauchampRenee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. She was also a prize-winning poet.
- The #CanadaReads2026 longlist is out tomorrow, Jan 8… who else here is excited?! Shortlist & panellists to be announced Jan 22. Debates run from Apr 13-16. Read on, Canada! #CanadaReads #CanLit #Booksky 📚💙
- #QuoteOfTheDay “Ride it like you own it, she said.” ~Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter How I feel about 2026…! #CurrentlyReading #Booksky 📚💙
- #SentenceSunday “Vows, resolutions: he was twenty-nine years to heaven and must never feel this old again.” ~Kevin Barry, The Heart In Winter Happy 2026! Any resolutions? #CurrentlyReading #Booksky 📚💙
- “Everyone is ugly.” ~Souvankham Thammavongsa, Pick A Colour #FirstLineFriday #CurrentlyReading #CanLit #Booksky 📚💙
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- #FirstLineFriday “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” ~Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway #CurrentlyListening #Booksky 📚💙
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- “Why was her legacy so sanitized? Why was my teacher so adamant that Montgomery couldn’t have suffered? Why were so many readers unaware — as I was up until two years ago — that Rilla of Ingleside isn’t actually where the story ends?” #AnneOfGreenGables #CanLit #Booksky 📚💙
- 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 📚💙
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- #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 📚💙
- “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 📚💙
- “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 📚💙
- ““Someone worked very hard,” David deadpanned. “Not me. I didn’t work on it at all.”” #LarryDavid #Booksky 📚💙
- “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 📚💙
- #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 📚💙
- #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 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 📚💙
- ”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
- 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 📚💙
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