MJ Beauchamp
@mjnicefield.bsky.social
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 📚💙
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 📚💙
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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 📚💙
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 📚💙
#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 📚💙
“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 📚💙
November 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
#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 📚💙
“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 📚💙
#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 📚💙
“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 📚💙
October 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
#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 📚💙
“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 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 📚💙
October 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
#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 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 📚💙
October 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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 📚💙
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 📚💙
October 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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 📚💙
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 📚💙
“The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.“
~Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
#QuoteOfTheDay
#Booksky 📚💙
~Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
#QuoteOfTheDay
#Booksky 📚💙
September 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
“The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.“
~Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
#QuoteOfTheDay
#Booksky 📚💙
~Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
#QuoteOfTheDay
#Booksky 📚💙
“Make that earth slow down a bit
As it spins around the sun
It’s going awful fast
And I am having too much fun…
So make the earth slow down a bit
We’re going way too fast—
And I just want it to last.”
~Kate McGarrigle
Stories I Might Regret Telling You, a memoir by Martha Wainwright.
#Booksky 📚💙
As it spins around the sun
It’s going awful fast
And I am having too much fun…
So make the earth slow down a bit
We’re going way too fast—
And I just want it to last.”
~Kate McGarrigle
Stories I Might Regret Telling You, a memoir by Martha Wainwright.
#Booksky 📚💙
September 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
“Make that earth slow down a bit
As it spins around the sun
It’s going awful fast
And I am having too much fun…
So make the earth slow down a bit
We’re going way too fast—
And I just want it to last.”
~Kate McGarrigle
Stories I Might Regret Telling You, a memoir by Martha Wainwright.
#Booksky 📚💙
As it spins around the sun
It’s going awful fast
And I am having too much fun…
So make the earth slow down a bit
We’re going way too fast—
And I just want it to last.”
~Kate McGarrigle
Stories I Might Regret Telling You, a memoir by Martha Wainwright.
#Booksky 📚💙
September 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Audition by Katie Kitamura; one book, two stories - same elements, different composition. What to make of it is up to the reader.
An ambitious and ambiguous short novel, engaging and reflective.
Who else is reading the #BookerPrize2025 longlist? And what did you think of this one?
#Booksky 📚💙
An ambitious and ambiguous short novel, engaging and reflective.
Who else is reading the #BookerPrize2025 longlist? And what did you think of this one?
#Booksky 📚💙
September 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Audition by Katie Kitamura; one book, two stories - same elements, different composition. What to make of it is up to the reader.
An ambitious and ambiguous short novel, engaging and reflective.
Who else is reading the #BookerPrize2025 longlist? And what did you think of this one?
#Booksky 📚💙
An ambitious and ambiguous short novel, engaging and reflective.
Who else is reading the #BookerPrize2025 longlist? And what did you think of this one?
#Booksky 📚💙
“My dear living gentlemen and ladies, there’s nothing as incommensurable as the disdain of the deceased.”
~Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
#SentenceSunday
#CurrentlyListening
#Booksky 📚💙
~Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
#SentenceSunday
#CurrentlyListening
#Booksky 📚💙
September 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
“My dear living gentlemen and ladies, there’s nothing as incommensurable as the disdain of the deceased.”
~Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
#SentenceSunday
#CurrentlyListening
#Booksky 📚💙
~Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
#SentenceSunday
#CurrentlyListening
#Booksky 📚💙
Hello, September!
Finally tackling the #BookerPrize2025 longlist! Starting with Susan Choi’s Flashlight - only 30% in, and already a captivating read.
Who else is reading the Booker nominees? What’s your favourite so far?
#CurrentlyReading
#Booksky 📚💙
Finally tackling the #BookerPrize2025 longlist! Starting with Susan Choi’s Flashlight - only 30% in, and already a captivating read.
Who else is reading the Booker nominees? What’s your favourite so far?
#CurrentlyReading
#Booksky 📚💙
September 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Hello, September!
Finally tackling the #BookerPrize2025 longlist! Starting with Susan Choi’s Flashlight - only 30% in, and already a captivating read.
Who else is reading the Booker nominees? What’s your favourite so far?
#CurrentlyReading
#Booksky 📚💙
Finally tackling the #BookerPrize2025 longlist! Starting with Susan Choi’s Flashlight - only 30% in, and already a captivating read.
Who else is reading the Booker nominees? What’s your favourite so far?
#CurrentlyReading
#Booksky 📚💙
August 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“If our daughters do not know how beautiful they are, just as they are, then surely we have failed.”
~Chimamanda Ngozi Achibie, Dream Count
Wow! Five stars.
#CurrentlyListening
#CurrentlyReading
#Booksky 📚💙
~Chimamanda Ngozi Achibie, Dream Count
Wow! Five stars.
#CurrentlyListening
#CurrentlyReading
#Booksky 📚💙
August 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
“If our daughters do not know how beautiful they are, just as they are, then surely we have failed.”
~Chimamanda Ngozi Achibie, Dream Count
Wow! Five stars.
#CurrentlyListening
#CurrentlyReading
#Booksky 📚💙
~Chimamanda Ngozi Achibie, Dream Count
Wow! Five stars.
#CurrentlyListening
#CurrentlyReading
#Booksky 📚💙
The magic of synchronicity…
“The sun is beginning to go down. I have always considered twilight to be a time during which odd and unearthly things might come to pass.”
~Heather O’Neill, Valentine in Montreal
#CurrentlyReading
#CanLit
#Booksky 📚💙
“The sun is beginning to go down. I have always considered twilight to be a time during which odd and unearthly things might come to pass.”
~Heather O’Neill, Valentine in Montreal
#CurrentlyReading
#CanLit
#Booksky 📚💙
August 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
The magic of synchronicity…
“The sun is beginning to go down. I have always considered twilight to be a time during which odd and unearthly things might come to pass.”
~Heather O’Neill, Valentine in Montreal
#CurrentlyReading
#CanLit
#Booksky 📚💙
“The sun is beginning to go down. I have always considered twilight to be a time during which odd and unearthly things might come to pass.”
~Heather O’Neill, Valentine in Montreal
#CurrentlyReading
#CanLit
#Booksky 📚💙
August 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“Do you hear the singing coming from the trees?”
“I hear nothing at all.”
“It’s too pretty to bear.”
“You’re hearing nothing but a memory.”
~Heather O’Neill, The Capital of Dreams
#CurrentlyReading
#LitFiction
#Booksky 📚💙
“I hear nothing at all.”
“It’s too pretty to bear.”
“You’re hearing nothing but a memory.”
~Heather O’Neill, The Capital of Dreams
#CurrentlyReading
#LitFiction
#Booksky 📚💙
August 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“Do you hear the singing coming from the trees?”
“I hear nothing at all.”
“It’s too pretty to bear.”
“You’re hearing nothing but a memory.”
~Heather O’Neill, The Capital of Dreams
#CurrentlyReading
#LitFiction
#Booksky 📚💙
“I hear nothing at all.”
“It’s too pretty to bear.”
“You’re hearing nothing but a memory.”
~Heather O’Neill, The Capital of Dreams
#CurrentlyReading
#LitFiction
#Booksky 📚💙
“You’re a good person; if you were in a position to stop disaster, you probably would.”
~Laila Lalami
#FirstLineFriday
#LitFiction
#Booksky 📚💙
~Laila Lalami
#FirstLineFriday
#LitFiction
#Booksky 📚💙
August 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“You’re a good person; if you were in a position to stop disaster, you probably would.”
~Laila Lalami
#FirstLineFriday
#LitFiction
#Booksky 📚💙
~Laila Lalami
#FirstLineFriday
#LitFiction
#Booksky 📚💙
“The only way to remember is to forget, to let time fill the story up, and create it all over again. But if, one day, you leave the Sea and you have to let it go, don’t grieve. Life is fated to be left behind.”
~Madeleine Thien, The Book of Records
#CurrentlyReading
#CanLit
#Booksky 📚💙
~Madeleine Thien, The Book of Records
#CurrentlyReading
#CanLit
#Booksky 📚💙
July 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
“The only way to remember is to forget, to let time fill the story up, and create it all over again. But if, one day, you leave the Sea and you have to let it go, don’t grieve. Life is fated to be left behind.”
~Madeleine Thien, The Book of Records
#CurrentlyReading
#CanLit
#Booksky 📚💙
~Madeleine Thien, The Book of Records
#CurrentlyReading
#CanLit
#Booksky 📚💙
“The word “safari,” in Swahili, means “journey”; it has nothing to do with animals. Someone ”on safari“ is just away and unobtainable and out of touch.
Out of touch in Africa was where I wanted to be.”
~Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari
#CurrentlyReading
#PaulTheroux
#Booksky 📚💙
Out of touch in Africa was where I wanted to be.”
~Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari
#CurrentlyReading
#PaulTheroux
#Booksky 📚💙
July 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
“The word “safari,” in Swahili, means “journey”; it has nothing to do with animals. Someone ”on safari“ is just away and unobtainable and out of touch.
Out of touch in Africa was where I wanted to be.”
~Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari
#CurrentlyReading
#PaulTheroux
#Booksky 📚💙
Out of touch in Africa was where I wanted to be.”
~Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari
#CurrentlyReading
#PaulTheroux
#Booksky 📚💙
My happy place… 🌺
#CurrentlyReading Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
#HarukiMurakami
#LitFiction
#Booksky
#CurrentlyReading Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
#HarukiMurakami
#LitFiction
#Booksky
July 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
My happy place… 🌺
#CurrentlyReading Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
#HarukiMurakami
#LitFiction
#Booksky
#CurrentlyReading Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
#HarukiMurakami
#LitFiction
#Booksky
“The kindness of Canadians when they see someone with a canoe is really a wonderful thing.” 🛶
~Adam Shoalts, Where the Falcon Flies
#CurrentlyReading
#NatureWriting
#Booksky
~Adam Shoalts, Where the Falcon Flies
#CurrentlyReading
#NatureWriting
#Booksky
July 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
“The kindness of Canadians when they see someone with a canoe is really a wonderful thing.” 🛶
~Adam Shoalts, Where the Falcon Flies
#CurrentlyReading
#NatureWriting
#Booksky
~Adam Shoalts, Where the Falcon Flies
#CurrentlyReading
#NatureWriting
#Booksky
“Why at the beginning of things is there always light?”
~Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
#FirstLineFriday
#CurrentlyReading
#LitFiction
#Booksky 📚💙
~Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
#FirstLineFriday
#CurrentlyReading
#LitFiction
#Booksky 📚💙
July 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“Why at the beginning of things is there always light?”
~Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
#FirstLineFriday
#CurrentlyReading
#LitFiction
#Booksky 📚💙
~Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
#FirstLineFriday
#CurrentlyReading
#LitFiction
#Booksky 📚💙
“Sparrows are survivors.”
Valerie, known by her hiker name Sparrow, is lost on the Appalachian trail. What follows is a search for her rescue, a community coming together to help, and page after page highlighting the beauty of humanity and of the natural world.
#Heartwood
#LitFiction
#Booksky 📚💙
Valerie, known by her hiker name Sparrow, is lost on the Appalachian trail. What follows is a search for her rescue, a community coming together to help, and page after page highlighting the beauty of humanity and of the natural world.
#Heartwood
#LitFiction
#Booksky 📚💙
June 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“Sparrows are survivors.”
Valerie, known by her hiker name Sparrow, is lost on the Appalachian trail. What follows is a search for her rescue, a community coming together to help, and page after page highlighting the beauty of humanity and of the natural world.
#Heartwood
#LitFiction
#Booksky 📚💙
Valerie, known by her hiker name Sparrow, is lost on the Appalachian trail. What follows is a search for her rescue, a community coming together to help, and page after page highlighting the beauty of humanity and of the natural world.
#Heartwood
#LitFiction
#Booksky 📚💙
Bonne fête, Québec!
Happy St-Jean Baptiste Day!
Celebrating with one of my favorite Québécois authors…
”Some people keep their darkness inside, and some hide their light. You, mon ami, almost certainly have a croissant in there.“ 🥐
#LouisePenny
#Mystery
#Booksky 📚💙
Happy St-Jean Baptiste Day!
Celebrating with one of my favorite Québécois authors…
”Some people keep their darkness inside, and some hide their light. You, mon ami, almost certainly have a croissant in there.“ 🥐
#LouisePenny
#Mystery
#Booksky 📚💙
June 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Bonne fête, Québec!
Happy St-Jean Baptiste Day!
Celebrating with one of my favorite Québécois authors…
”Some people keep their darkness inside, and some hide their light. You, mon ami, almost certainly have a croissant in there.“ 🥐
#LouisePenny
#Mystery
#Booksky 📚💙
Happy St-Jean Baptiste Day!
Celebrating with one of my favorite Québécois authors…
”Some people keep their darkness inside, and some hide their light. You, mon ami, almost certainly have a croissant in there.“ 🥐
#LouisePenny
#Mystery
#Booksky 📚💙