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allthecanadianpolitics · 5 months

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Indigo is closing a beloved Chapters bookstore in Scarborough in a move that has employees and regulars alike accusing them of union busting. The Chapters at Kennedy Commons is not only the largest bookstore in Scarborough and one of the best Indigo locations in the city, it's one of three unionized Chapters locations in Toronto. According to Indigo (which owns Chapters), the decision to shutter the business was merely a fiscal one. In a statement to CBC Toronto, they suggested that the location's profitability wasn't up to par. But employees of the location, as well as some locals, aren't buying it. For some, the company's decision to close this specific location doesn't add up, leading to accusations of union busting from the store's employees and supporters.

Tagging @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #ontario #union busting #chapters bookstore #support locally owned bookstores and libraries #boycott indigo

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richardarmitagefanpage · 1 year

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Atlas Message from Richard.

#my gifs #gifs #richard armitage #lucinda riley #atlas: the story of pa salt #new audiobook #audiobook #chapters bookstore #message #news

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handweavers · 1 month

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these are my two favourite books about the history of south asians in malaya/malaysia, the first focusing on south asian migration and settlement in malaya and the latter focusing on sikh migration and settlement across southeast asia. my family are 5th gen malaysian sikhs so both of these books have been really influential to me

the first book focuses a lot more on the tamil and other south indian communities of malaya (naturally, given that they are the majority of malaysian indians) while detailing the places where the status of various north indian communities in malaya were similar and different to those of south indians due to a variety of colonial economic practices. malaysia as an independent country was established in 1957 and this book was published in 1969 so as expected it doesn't go much into post-merdeka life.

the second goes into not just punjabi sikhs in malaya but across seasia, detailing histories and experiences of sikh communities in indonesia, thailand, laos, cambodia, philippines, and elsewhere. reading about sikh communities in other southeast asian countries and noticing similarities and differences between us is really cool. of course, the chapters on the malaysian sikh community are particularly fascinating to me.

first title is 'indians in malaya: immigration and settlement 1786-1957' by kernial singh sandhu and the second is 'sikhs in southeast asia: negotiating an identity' edited by shamsul ab and arunajeet kaur

#ive only ever found these at irl bookstores in malaysia #i have no idea what it would be like trying to get these outside of seasia #but if u are seasian or sikh or whatever and want a chapter from any of these msg me and i can try to scan them for you

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d20-ritz-stimzz · 1 year

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"My friends and I will prevail, and the love and history and positivity of New York City will step you out like a flame, goodbye."

🍵 📚 🌟 × 🍵 📚 🌟 × 🍵 📚 🌟

s2 pete conlan!

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random-meme-bot · 4 months

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🎃HAPPY (very late) HALLOWEEN🎃

I wanted to have this done by Halloween 2023, but at last it wasn't posible.

Here it is:

HEXES ON THE SHELVES: DON'T FORGET ANIMATIC

If you've read the first chapter of HotS (avaliable on AO3) you might recognice this scene as an adaptation of the scene that happens after Elly steals Dan's lighter, (and I'm sorry if it get's a bit hard to follow there at the end without having read it), I've been wanting to do this animatic ever since I thought of that scene (yes, even before writing the fic).

It's not perfect and it took way longer than I would have wanted, but I'm fairly happy with the end resoult, my biggest gripe being the lack of transitions but I wasn't able to find any free program that had it and didn't suck (maybe in the fututre I'll remaster it who knows)

Right now I'm just glad I'm done with it, I have one non HotS I made in between frames because this was burning me, expect to see that soon(ish)...

Anyways, Here are some Frames from the animation, enjoy💜

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argikiya · 2 months

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A Curse For True Love (Once Upon A Broken Heart #3)- Stephanie Garber

The third special edition epilogue ~

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#once upon a broken heart #the curse for true love #stephanie garber #evajacks #bonus chapter #bonus content #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookstore

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arminsumi · 10 months

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the urge to just post everything in my queue bc im too excited and impatient 😭 like i gotta wait till friday for my fave post to publish?!

#madness #i just want to give u guys everything rn #like dilf toji and bookstore boy and enemy gojo all in one go lol #yes bookstore boy is queued BE EXCITED IT'S MY FAVE CHAPTER YET

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mass-convergence · 1 month

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I’m actually reading Fire Logic by Laurie Marks because I got this book like 2 years ago and barely cracked it open. I decided if I’m gonna start reading my backlog of books I’ll start with the one I got two years ago lmao. Though Pratchett’s books is on my list as well as the Abhorsen series by Garth Nix.

Anyway … Read about two chapters in.

Thoughts so far:

- Zanja’s very cool (or hot because … fire) and possibly queer??

- Her home seems nice and I’m sure the Elder’s hubris about them not worrying about getting attacked by the warmongering society on their border will definitely not come back to bite them in the ass.

- Emil seems like a nice fellow

- Mabin seems like a grizzled commander who’s done with everyone’s shit

- This is why you always have a successor lined up. Rookie move there Harald. (I’m sure there’s some reason that’ll come up later in the plot)

- I’d like to dropkick a Sainnite in the face

And I like Marks’s writing style. It’s very descriptive and I think she’s got a good grasp on character development (like how she writes her characters to be fairly identifiable and also 3 dimensional).

#Fire Logic #idk is there a series name for this because I know there’s multiple books #look I got this from a used bookstore because the cover had a woman in armor and that is my weakness #so like not familiar with the series aside from ‘there are other books’#so like I started this book a while ago and now restarting it from the beginning #so I know what happens almost immediately after chapter 2 lol - I know

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lustlovehart · 2 months

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It’s gonna be my birthday tomorrow, and I wanna write something for it, but i’m stuck on an impasse of who to write for.

#it’s between the first chapter of my blade x reader series #a lovers to enemies fic with Jing yuan #and bookstore date gone horribly wrong with Malleus #(╥_╥)#vesperramble!

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sakizm · 10 months

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what's more nebraskan than reading a beloved classic under prairie skies on a july afternoon?

#bought this book at an indie bookstore and decided to take with me on the camping trip #haven’t read my antonia since high school for english class #i’m a few chapters in but definitely enjoyed reading this book in a hammock #my antonia is a beloved nebraska classic to read #don’t mind sakizm

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richardarmitagefanpage · 1 year

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Atlas Message from Richard Armitage.

#richard armitage #lucinda riley #atlas: the story of pa salt #new audiobook #audiobook #chapters bookstore #message #video #youtube #news

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ardberts · 1 year

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in case y’all didn’t realize i was deadly seriously about the bookstore au, here’s fresh-faced small business owner nara and corporate asshole emet-selch.

#emetwol #emet-selch #oc: nara #wip: the first bookstore #ship: a strong case of fight or flight #ocedits #my edits #i'm so excited ghfdjkgh #i'm gonna finish godless ch 2 this weekend hopefully and also bang out the first chapter of this fic too.#wishful thinking but still.#the first bookstore was previously owned by ardbert and is now being taken over by nara who just moved to the city.#g'raha owns the coffee shop next door and a bunch of characters are students and professors at baldesion university.#the ascians are big business owners trying to open a mega-bookstore across town #it's the first fluffy and romcom-y thing i've ever written and I AM STOKED!!!!#*sings 'dreams' by the cranberries at the top of my lungs*

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violetclarity · 1 year

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sorry can't talk, too busy reading A Deadly Education and absolutely losing my mind about it

#how is naomi novik so good at writing. h o w #got a few chapters in like 'wow she did some good world building there I guess now we're set' no. the world is still being built.#new details every paragraph and i'm LIVING for it #started reading and I was like 'love the narrator/mc's snarky voice' but then you actually find out about who she is!!#not even her character development but just her CHARACTER asdfghjkl #naomi novik really said 'oh you wanted a snarky/manipulative/incredibly intelligent/stone cold bitch MC but you wanted her to be a woman?'#'done.'#and then delivered PERFECTION EVEN BEYOND THAT #I knew it would be good but my expectations have been shattered (in a good way) anyway.#I will be going to the bookstore for book 2 tomorrow and I'm not even done book 1 #a deadly education #the scholomance

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isaacathom · 7 months

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thinking about the hornblower/bush pleading paragraph again and being reminded of a scene earlier in that same book where hornblower is trying to tell bush about how he can navigate and demonstrating the math for him and all bush can do is nod dumbly and admire hornblower's delicate and nimble hands

#not a direct quote i dont have the book on hand despite my attempts to find a copy. i gotta contact that bookstore #but its an early on chapter like 7 or so in lt hornblower and it was the first bit where i went OH I SEE NOW #cause id watched most of the show and had gotten 0 hornblower/bush energy from mutiny/retribution #and then i read lt hornblower and went oh! i see where you fuckers get it from actually. i see the nucleus of it here #lt hornblower is fully the gayest of the novels (of the ones i read which was through till flying colours)#next gayest was probably flying colours. when i finally read lord hornblower we'll see where that figures #but i assume lord hornblower WILL rank on the gay list. most of the books do not in the slightest #yknow actually beat to quarters and ship of the line rank too just bc of how often hornblower goes #'damn my lieutenant (not bush) is an attractive man. im jealous of him' are you horatio? something you wanna tell class #idr the name of the lieutenant but his entire role is to be hot and lean and good with women #so those rank. the others dont though these bitches got nothing #we may give a partial point to midshipman for having the character of archie kennedy for all of 6 lines over two chapters #where in his first appearance its just the two of them being dumb theatrical for no reason. its very cute

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arminsumi · 11 months

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Hey! I saw your reblog, “Bookstore Boy” is actually based on a real one you’ve been to?! That’s so awesome! I love being inspired by random everyday things, a random rainstorm got me to write a one shot that turned into a series ^^

Anyway, I just thought that was really cool! Have a wonderful day/night/morning//evening <3

mhm!! 💕 it's a second-hand bookstore, very small and there is an old man who runs it, he seems to cycle through employees seasonally 🤭he once hired this pretty cute boy, we flirted a bit and he tried to help me search for Virginia Woolf books (hehe that sounds familiar)

in the real bookstore, there's no upstairs cafe, and it's squeezed into such a hidden corner under stairs that i never realized it was there.

i always go straight to the classics and poetry section, they have some very old and tattered books which i love.

my favorite book that i purchased from there was falling apart at the seams even when i bought it, the pages were all browned and smelling of... 'biblichor'? anyways, the middle fell out while i was reading so i improvised and used lots of tape to fix it. (i wish i had an Armin to mend it for me like in the story, hence that's why i wrote that part in a chapter hehe)

and yes!! drawing inspiration from real life or every day things makes stories feel so special, it feels like a part of your life is in the story and i think that's important if you want to feel motivation for writing something big.

i love when i'm just going about my day and conjure a story from the most mundane tasks. personally for me, lots of ideas have been born from daydreams since i am quite an avid daydreamer 💭💫 i usually imagine scenes in my mind as vividly as i can before writing them.

hehe sorry for rambling!

sending sweet wishes and good vibes your way angel!! 💕

#˗ˏˋ꒰ 🍒 ꒱ jay #˗ˏˋ꒰ 📖 ꒱ Bookstore Boy #mmm a new chapter may come soon if i can work it 🫡

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deus-ex-mona · 1 year

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help nooooo i just realised that they butchered akechi’s character too

#i mean… would mr ‘don’t run in the halls’ really *really* smile as two of his students play tag in said halls?#who is he and which ‘verse is he from? the m*t* s**t* ‘verse????#reliving the [redacted] anime is oddly therapeutic in a way. it gives me an appropriate channel for anger venting #so thanks [redacted] anime for being the anger management course that you are </3 i still hate you though </3 #man it’s almost 2 am and i need to be up in 4 hours but i stayed up late to read pksp anyway whoops #binge reading the su-mo chapter was quite the experience. i’m glad the bookstore had all 6 vols when i dropped by #and now i finally understand the moon berlitz references. hell yeaaaaaaaaaaaaa #i lost it when the faba faba-d off though. sorry (not sorry) faba dude kinda deserved it #but man. freakin’ moon and her ‘is ok i studied pharm sci i know how to make all medicines :))’#girl pls what kind of magical pharm sci school did you go to? i never learned anythingggg but placebo pills :(( (former pharm sci student)#reminds me that the capsules we used for class were old af and expired so the capsule filling task didn’t go well at all #making suppositories was weird though. shapin’ the thing and pressing it into the mold and all…#but the expensive tablet making machine was very cute. the temptation to smash it to bits was even cuter though~~

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