MJ Beauchamp
@mjnicefield
Montréal, QC 📖☕️🪶
#HappyHumpDay It’s been a hot and low energy week, but I did manage to start a new book… M.L. Stedman’s A Far-Flung Life; a beautiful family saga set in the Australian Outback. Now enjoying the breeze out here while it last! How’s your week going? #CurrentlyReading #Booksky
#BookmarkMonday Another afternoon in Scotland, or actually now in France… Dragonfly in Amber, by Diana Gabaldon, is book 2 of the Outlander series, and matched so well I had to (had to!) pair it with my Pedro Pascal bookmark. 🥰 #CurrentlyReading #BookSeries #Booksky
#HappyCanadaDay Celebrating with Yann Martel’s latest novel; Son of Nobody - my #CanLit book of the day. Also, #PortlandLeather Monarca butterfly tassels (offer link in my bio)… they make perfect bookmarks! 🦋 #CoffeeAndCurrentlyReadng #PLGPartner #Booksky
“It's a groovy day I never saw the sun quite that way It's a ball of fire Lifts me up and takes me higher If only one desire for my Monday love” ~The Grass Roots, Monday Love 💗 #MondayLove #SummerLove #StopAndSmellTheRoses
#SundayFunday What a wonderful week it’s been… didn’t get much reading done, but lots of fun and Sunshine! ☀️ #CurrentlyReading Funny Story with my Purse Pals Book Club - perfect for summer. (See my bio for #PortlandLeather 30% off link.) How’s everyone’s summer so far? 🧚 #BOTD #Booksky
The Outlander adventure continues… Picked up the four books I was missing: 4. Dreams of Autumn 5. The Fiery Cross 6. A Breath of Snow and Ashes 7. An Echo in the Bone What’s one of your summer reading projects? #StackSaturday #CurrentlyReading #Booksky
Celebrating #SaintJeanBaptiste today in Three Pines… Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series perfectly captures the heart of Québec and of its people. Sure to make me feel at home, and there’s nowhere else I’d rather be! 💙 #CurrentlyReading #CanLit #Booksky
Just as I’m about to take a break, I notice today’s date on the page… June 22nd. Love little book synchronicities like these; it’s going to be a great day! #BookmarkMonday #CoffeeAndCurrentlyReading #Booksky
A gloomy week here, except for one bit of Sunshine… 💛 My new Belle Bucket arrived from #PortlandLeather, and I’m obsessed! Follow the ref link in my bio for 30% off at checkout (no code needed). Using Belle as a house purse to carry my weekend reads! #StackSaturday #CurrentlyReading #Booksky
“Old guy,” my husband said in a low voice, his lips touching my ear. “Near the exit sign.“ ~Ann Patchett, Whisler A bit of a heatwave here this week; I’m enjoying the shade, some iced coffee, and just one more chapter! #FirstLineFriday #CurrentlyReading #Booksky 📸📚💙
Trying to organise my side table; a mixmatch of currents and TBRs, new books and old treasures… What’s on your side or coffee table? And does it easily get out of control, like mine? #StackSaturday #BookStack #Booksky 📸📚💙
Whistler, by Ann Patchett, is out today! 🐎 A gorgeous cover, and beautiful afternoon… Anyone else reading this one now? Or, favourite book by Patchett so far? #HappyPubDay #CurrentlyReading #Booksky 📸📚💙
#RabbitRabbit What are you starting the new month with? #CurrentlyReading #LouisePenny #Booksky 📸📚💙
New books this week… and colour-coordinated! ✨ Which one speaks to you the most? #StackSaturday #BookStack #Booksky 📸📚💙
“These books are about community. About love and belonging. About the great gift of friendship.” If you haven’t read Louise Penny yet… Three Pines is a pretty special place to be! 🌲 #LouisePenny #CanLit #BookSeries #Booksky
Books are bananas… ☕️ #StackSaturday #CoffeeAndCurrentlyReading #Booksky
Magnolia season in Montréal… 🌸 #MagnoliaLove #NatureLove #NatureWriting
A big coffee mug for a big book… Today feels like the right day to start Outlander! I’m beyond excited to embark on this adventure. Have you read it? Or, any other must-read series to recommend? #CurrentlyReading #CoffeeAndCurrentlyReading #Booksky 📸📚💙
“It was a bitter afternoon, during one of the worst winters the province had ever seen.” ~Loghan Paylor, The Cure For Drowning (This year’s #CanadaReads winner!) Happy Friday, and Happy May! What are you most looking forward to this month? Me… sunshine! ☀️ #FirstLineFriday #CanLit #Booksky
“If your worldview is forsythia, then every startling truth that bends you low becomes a new connection to the earth, a new way to stand, an invitation to grow.” ~ @jarodkanderson.bsky.social, Forsythia (Love Notes from the Hollow Tree) #NatureWriting #NationalPoetryMonth #Booksky
“All told, we munch on a credit card's worth of plastic every day and probably will for the rest of our lives." ~Edward Humes, Total Garbage #EarthDay #CurrentlyReading #NonFiction #Booksky
(You know it’s a Monday when there’s afternoon coffee involved…) Enjoying Even the Good Girls Will Cry; Melissa Auf der Maur’s heartfelt memoir, paired with my Montréal coffee mug - a perfect match, for a local icon. #CoffeeAndCurrentlyReading #MugMonday #MemoirMonday #Booksky 📸📚💙
“When I ask myself, how a person should live, this is the advice I now turned to: Learn to branch out like a tree, to let go like a tree, to weather hardship like a tree, to rise above like a tree, to set down roots like a tree.” ~Robert Moor, In Trees #NatureWriting #NonFiction #Booksky
#FirstLineFriday “The twins departed this world with a cry, much in the way they came into it.” ~Jiyoung Han, Honey in the Wound Historical fiction meets magical realism, poetic and graceful. #Booksky 📸📚💙
Another mini haul today… because these five novels look fabulous, and irresistible. #BookMailMonday #BookHaul #Booksky 📸📚💙
“The train was rocking through wide open country before Elsa was able to put off the misery of leaving and reach out for the freedom and release that were hers now.” ~Wallace Stegner, The Big Rock Candy Mountain #FirstLineFriday #LitFic #Booksky
Who’s ready for CBC’s #CanadaReads? I’ve now read four of the five finalists, and I can’t wait! “In small towns, there are two kinds of people: those who can’t wait to leave and those who can’t imagine being anywhere else.” ~Tyler Hellard, Searching for Terry Punchout #CanLit #Booksky 📸📚💙