Wow what a feat and practically music to my ears: the prevalence of reading (falling) with references to Muriel Spark, Iris Murdoch AND Simone Weil! Could this piece by Mark Kingwell feel any more pertinent?! @theglobeandmail.com #booksky
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And we were already getting used to grass and flowers budding #winter #spring #gananoque
I asked it create an image of Father Amaro with Amélia (his love interest) but this version looks way to AI-y. #portugal #portugueseliterature #ecadequeiros
I've been enjoying Eça de Queiros's The Crime of Father Amaro (handsome young man, forced into the priesthood by circumstance not devotion & his forbidden love affair with the daughter of a town aristocrat - mid-19th century Portugal). I asked AI to create an image of Father Amaro. Voilà! #booksky
I’m in the middle of reading Diana Marcum’s book The Tenth Island - a semi-journalistic account of the Azores and the Azorean diaspora — and really sad to learn that she died a few years ago. What an interesting writer and what a sad loss. #azores #travelwriting #booksky
Really loving this Portuguese song which riffs on the traditions and tone of Fado but is also very 2026 | maria by Carolina Deslandes & Rodrigo Correia #portuguese #portugal open.spotify.com/track/0G7D0P...
#ICYMI
Let The Isabel Voices take you on The Journey, a moving, immersive musical experience that invites audiences to walk through stories of healing, resilience, and light, guided by the power of voice and strings. #YGK #YGKConcert
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For more about Richardson's book, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with author Megan Marshall who wrote the forward to this book.
#books @princetonupress.bsky.social
Day 8 of Graphic Novels I Love: Albert Camus - The First Man by Jacques Ferrandez, translated by Ryan Bloom. #graphicnovels #booksky #camus #france #algeria #bandedessinee #comics
The woods looked like a painting this morning
This is such a loss: his books that explored the brutality of Portuguese colonialism, his love of Africa, his use of language and his pushing out the boundaries of what a novel is and can be. He was miraculous. #booksky #portugal #portugueseliterature www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/b...
According to KCFF, the 2026 festival set a new attendance record with 16,000 tickets sold, selling out 85 per cent of the screenings, and handing out a record 13 awards at a ceremony on Sunday evening. #YGK #FilmFestival
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#ICYMI
Special guest JP Longboat will join The Isabel Voices to enhance the immersive experience of 'The Wound in the Water', one of the many pieces audiences will experience at 'The Journey', their upcoming #concert event. #YGK
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Carney’s India strategy promises many benefits www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
This NYT living room collection drives me crazy. Beautiful, sure, but maybe one actually looks like somewhere you'd want to hang out. It's a pretentious, consumerist fantasy of how wealthy people want you to think they live. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/t...
We're performing the Canadian premiere of Kim André Arnesen's breathtaking Wound in the Water — plus JUNO-winning soprano Kathleen Radke and First Nations artist JP Longboat. What a way to welcome spring! 🌱
I'm so excited to share that I'll be singing with the Isabel Voices in The Journey on March 15, 2026 at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts in #Kingston 🎶 www.kingstonist.com/news/the-isa...
Picked up a old copy of *The Razor's Edge* by Somerset Maugham — spine cracked, pages slightly yellow — and I've barely surfaced since. There's something about reading a book that's passed through other hands, other lives. I'm really loving this novel. #booksky
Moving from Shanghai to Canada 20 years ago taught me something that took a decade to sink in: the best way to survive winter is to go outside in it (with the right gear). I won't pretend I love it. But out in the open air, it's more than manageable — it might even be fun.
This painting faintly resembles our small town at the moment (only cars and parking lots somewhere in the distance). | Hunters in the Snow (Jagers in de Sneeuw) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Dutch, 1525-1569)
When brutal winter feels cozy and full of hygge from the backyard. #WinterCozy #HomeLife
A John Berger biography is coming in September and honestly? I'm considering taking a week's leave, disappearing somewhere quiet, and reading nothing else. Some books deserve that kind of attention. This feels like one of them. 📖 www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/790677...
What does this have to do with Kingston or Kingston news?
Brett and Jocelyn were so devastated at the disappointing Olympic performance, I got a little teary for them.
From Gold by Rumi (translated by Haleh Liza Gafori)
#booksky #poetry #rumi #farsi
He'd read their books. He knew their books. It was effortless. That's the thing about intelligence — it doesn't announce itself. It just shows up. Which is perhaps why its absence in the current presidency feels so loud. America you've fallen so far.
Paul Theroux has this lovely story about sitting with Pico Iyer in a Maui café when Obama happened to walk in. No appointment, no agenda — just a chance encounter. And what Theroux remembered most was how Obama talked about their books with genuine understanding.
I feel kind of bad for the guy, but I feel much worse for the countless others in his position who are just trying to keep their heads down. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
This interview + game with Jody Foster is super charming. I just saw La vie privée on the weekend and she's so serious in it, you forget how funny she can be. youtu.be/DjljoQI_5Ys?...
One of my favourite (small) roles of Catherine O'Hara was Gail in Scorsese's excellent film After Hours (1985) where she plays a Softee Ice Cream truck driver and who joins the mob searching for Paul (played by Griffin Dunne). She's psycho level scary. And funny.
