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James M Fisher

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Editor-in-chief of The Seaboard Review of Books. https://www.theseaboardreview.ca/ MRI Technologist. Jazz 🎷Pink Floyd. 💘 Miramichi #NB.

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James M Fisher @miramichijim.bsky.social · 16d

My "Buy a New Brunswick Book Day" book arrived! Thanks for the speedy service, @gooselane.bsky.social! #nbbluesky #canlit #tappanadney

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Government of New Brunswick @govnb.bsky.social · 5d

Flu and COVID-19 vaccines will be available for free beginning October 14 at pharmacies, public health offices and from some primary-care providers.

Book your appointment starting today.

https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2025.10.0423.html

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James M Fisher @miramichijim.bsky.social · 5d

From 2018, in Edith Wharton's library in The Mount, Lenox Massachusetts.

James M Fisher @miramichijim.bsky.social · 7d

Well, this is sad. The @gaspereaupress.bsky.social was kind enough to send me 5 of the last books printed by the original owners. Thanks, and best wishes to Andrew Steeves & the others at the Press.

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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 7d

This is exciting news! Truro, NS is about to get a new bookshop!

The Happy Duck Bookshop & Readery @thehappyduckbooks.bsky.social · 7d

Getting our ducks in a row! 🦆📚🌻

Opening day to be announced soon!

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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 13d

Saul Bellow nailing* the importance of physical media (cf:, lps, cds, dvds, etc) from The Dangling Man, 1944.

* for me, anyways

From The Dangling Man by Saul Bellow:

“In the old days, when we had a flat of our own, I read constantly. I was forever buying new books, faster, admittedly, than I could read them. But as long as they surrounded me they stood as guarantors of an extended life, far more precious and necessary than the one I was forced to lead daily. If it was impossible to sustain this superior life at all times, I could at least keep its signs within reach. When it became tenuous I could see them and touch them.”

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James M Fisher @miramichijim.bsky.social · 16d

My "Buy a New Brunswick Book Day" book arrived! Thanks for the speedy service, @gooselane.bsky.social! #nbbluesky #canlit #tappanadney

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James M Fisher @miramichijim.bsky.social · 18d

It's #buyannbbookday! Purchase a book by a New Brunswick author or publisher and support the NB literary arts. #nbbluesky

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James M Fisher @miramichijim.bsky.social · 20d

My Goodreads review of ANIMALS a novella by Jerrod Edson and published by @galleon-books.bsky.social

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James M Fisher @miramichijim.bsky.social · 20d

September 20th is "Buy an NB Book Day" but I got a jump on it and just purchased this fine book from @gooselane.bsky.social, an NB publisher I hold in high esteem. #canlit #nbbluesky

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James M Fisher @miramichijim.bsky.social · 22d

A very interesting read! Well done, @katieyingram.bsky.social !

Katie Ingram @katieyingram.bsky.social · 23d

First review of The Undesirables on Goodreads. Thanks @miramichijim.bsky.social!

@pottersfieldpress.bsky.social

#halifax #halifaxhistory #prisonhistory #novascotia #novascotiahistory #nonfiction #canadiannonfiction #nonfictionbooks

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John Hansen (suburbanerd) @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 22d

Guys. I’m in love with the newly updated New Brunswick libraries chickadee logo.

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James M Fisher @miramichijim.bsky.social · 25d

#audiophile

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Katie Ingram @katieyingram.bsky.social · Sep 2

Wanna come to a book launch?

The Undesirables will be launched next month with the help of @kingsbookstore.bsky.social and @benjaminwrites.bsky.social!

When: Oct. 4, 2025
Time: 1:30p.m.-3:30p.m.
Where: KTS Lecture Hall, New Academic Building, University of King's College (There will be signs!)

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 27d

Please stop explaining things to me we are at capacity

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James M Fisher @miramichijim.bsky.social · 27d

What makes crime history so interesting? Author @katieyingram.bsky.social delves into some little-known Halifax history in this title from @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 29d

Shoutout to libraries for keeping fiction and non-fiction separate, that is not easy to do these days

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James M Fisher @miramichijim.bsky.social · Sep 8

Here it is! The first @galleon-books.bsky.social title authored by a woman. Long overdue, but worth the wait. #canlit

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James M Fisher @miramichijim.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · Sep 6

I had the honour to serve in Parliament with Ken Dryden.
He loved this country.
He was a brilliant writer and one of the great hockey legends.
Thank you for your service Ken.
Canada is a better place because of you.
You are with the angels.

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James M Fisher @miramichijim.bsky.social · Sep 6

Some recent reads and #bookmail

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · Sep 5

I love autumn because it’s like somebody finally turned the big overhead light off and lit several perfect little oil lamps I didn’t know I had

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James M Fisher @miramichijim.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm determined to get through this book. It *is* interesting and much like The Odyssey. #classicliterature

James M Fisher @miramichijim.bsky.social · Sep 5

Apple season! #nbbluesky