Images of the first package I've received as a member of the @biblioasis.bsky.social Limited Editions Club. Until now, I'd never quite understood the attraction of unboxing videos. #CanLit #booksky #canadianliterature

On the heels of Simon's @stuckinabook.bsky.social review of Constance Beresford-Howe's The Book of Eve, I came across this theatrical adaptation. According to the intro, it was the most successful production of the 1976 Stratford Festival, outselling Chekhov, Congreve, Wilde, and the Bard of Avon!

Needless to say, it is a paperback original.

A 40-year-old man:

The view from our Ontario sunroom:

The view from my Canadian home.

As a Canadian of British heritage with much of the family on the other side of the pond, I hate comments about "British teeth." That said:

Odd. This Canadian always thinks of Trump as scowling, as on the banner hanging at Main Justice. I always think of Zohran Mamdani as smiling, like this from 25 minutes ago:

Michael de Adder is by far the best editorial cartoonist working today, but he still can't quite capture Donald Trump's teeny, tiny hands.

Celebrating Greenland's National Day. The view from our Canadian home. #grønland #Greenland #vexillology

Nailed it!

Is the torture inflicted in co-hosting the World Cup really worth the 1.1 billion paid by Canadian taxpayers? Before you answer, consider this woman's plight as reported in The Globe & Mail, "Canada's National Newspaper."

Another of this week's acquisitions, this 1951 thriller was written by a Hungarian refugee who found a home in New York. It takes place in Montreal, which is interesting in itself, but it's the uncredited cover that grabs. Whoever it was, they really knew the city. #canlit #cdnhist #booksky #mtl

This 1895 paperback arrived in today's post. It's not in the best of shape, but this long-time Grant Allen fan had never before seen a copy. I expect @causticcovercritic.bsky.social will understand. With over 350 illustrations in silhouette by the broithers Gould! #canlit #cdnhist

Come on New York Times, the word is 'murdered,' not 'killed.'

The first edition had no dust jacket, but why not this brilliant Seth illustration instead of an lazy print-on-demand template?

Reading Isabel Ecclestone Mackay's 1919 novel Mist of Morning today I came across this reference to the author's close friend Pauline Johnson who had died just six years earlier. #canlit #cdnhist #booksky

I'm reminded of the map of Canada (with its new provinces) and Jesusland from Bush's second term.

Got it.

Pages eight and nine of Danger! Warning!:

Danger! Warning! by Jonathan Ellsworth Perkins, a publication of the Christian Nationalist Crusade, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1948.

Hmm... an inside joke?

The first question deals with letters with numbers (1 - A, 2 - B, etc.). Your president may be referring to the third part of the test, which features a donkey, tiger and duck. The patient is asked to identify each. You'd think a man who has taken the test three times would remember.

What first comes to mind when I hear "86":

I'm reminded that the original New York Times obit for Robbie Robertson included three references to America, three references to Americana, and one to the Confederacy. At no point was it mentioned that he was a First Nations man who was born and raised in Canada.

Apple is best, but I've been putting off buying anything since Steve Jobs died. I was right to do so. Tim Cook's 'unique unit of one is' looks and smells like shit. Lord knows Jobs was no saint, but he is when compared to Cook. A sycophant and a man with no vision whatsoever, that's Tim Apple.

Purchased for the jacket alone. You may not be able to judge a book by its cover, but you sure can sell it. Bibliophiles will understand. The Bells of St. Stephen's Marian Keith [Mary Esther Miller MacGregor] Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1922 #canlit #cdnhist #booksky

I'll have to track it down. The most surprising to me is 1949's Torch of Violence, which features the word shit. 1949!

Not to pile on, but it only follows the American tradition of tacky, somewhat offensive monuments.