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Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ

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Arts, Books, Music - All things good! Maker of #HorribleDoodles, which are truly horrible. Banner is from #SecretPath by #GordDownie and #JeffLemire

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Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 17h

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #AmReading #NowReading #Bookworm #EcoFiction #FoodPolitics #MeatIndustry #FactoryFarming #MyYearOfMeats #RuthOzeki ‘My Year of Meats’ by Ruth Ozeki

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #AmReading #NowReading #Bookworm #LetsGoPlayAtTheAdams #Horror #PsychologicalHorror #Violence #CultClassic #PaperbacksFromHell #MendalWJohnson ‘Let’s Go Play at the Adams’’ by Mendal W. Johnson

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #AmReading #NowReading #Bookworm #Japanese #LGBTQ #LGBTQ2S #Manga #JoseiManga #TōjishaManga #MentalHealth #Autobiography #NagataKabi ‘My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness’ by Nagata Kabi

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #AmReading #NowReading #Bookworm #SerialKiller #Crime #Horror #Metafiction #Edgewood #ChasingTheBoogeyman #Boogeyman @richardchizmar.bsky.social ‘Chasing the Boogeyman’ by Richard Chizmar

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #AmReading #NowReading #Bookworm #Shabanu #DaughterOfTheWind #PakistaniLiterature #CholistanDesert #NomadicLife #YoungAdults #GirlsRights #ComingOfAge #SuzanneFisherStaples ‘Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind’ by Suzanne Fisher Staples

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Sir Garfield Sobers is no more. #WindiesCricket #RIPSobers #Legend

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Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🇨🇦 Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦, my fellow Canucks. #HappyCanadaDay

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Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #AmReading #NowReading #Bookworm #CanadianLiterature #Dystopian #LGTBQ2S #TheBoots #Queer #Discrimination #Racism #BIPOC #Homophobia #Crosshairs #CatherineHernandez ‘Crosshairs’ by Catherine Hernandez

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #HistoricalFiction #Mystery #Horror #Witches #Witchcraft #GothicHorror #Murder #Thriller #Fantasy #Sexism #Racism #Intolerance #Superstition #TheCarolinas #SouthCarolina #MatthewCorbett #SpeaksTheNightbird #RobertMcCammon ‘Speaks the Nightbird’ by Robert McCammon

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #AmReading #NowReading #Bookworm #SpeculativeFiction #PostApocalyptic #ClimateChange #SocialInequality #ChristianFundamentalism #Acorn #Earthseed #ParableOfTheSower #OctaviaButler ‘Parable of the Sower’ by Octavia E. Butler

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #NowReading #Bookworm #Novella #LGBTQ #Queer #Dalit #Blasphemy #Resilience #CanadianLiterature #PakistaniLiterature #Keeru #FauziaRafique #HaiderShahbaz Thank you #BarnaliRayShukla for the recommendation ‘Keeru’ by Fauzia Rafique (Haider Shahbaz, Trans.)

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Credit: Anujath Sindhu Vinaylal Thrissur, Kerala, India #InternationalWomensDay2026

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Canada has lost a gem. #CatherineOHara #RIPCatherineOHara #Legend #Icon #CanadianIcon

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Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #AmReading #Horror #GoodVsEvil #EndOfTheWorld #Dystopian #PostApocalyptic @cgolden.bsky.social‬ @briankeene.bsky.social‬ @stephenking.bsky.social ‘The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand’ Edited by Christopher Golden & Brian Keene

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Well, I took my sweet time with this one - and you are right. This was better than Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs. Lots of twists and turns, and an unexpected ending. I loved it.

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Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #AmReading #NowReading #Bookworm #SelfActualization #PsychologicalFiction #SocialLife #AutobiographicalFiction #NoLongerHuman #JapaneseLiterature #OsamuDazai #JulietWintersCarpenter ‘No Longer Human’ by Osamu Dazai Tr. by Juliet Winters Carpenter

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #AmReading #NowReading #Bookworm #Horror #Suspense #Thriller #PsychologicalThriller #Crime #Cannibalism #FBI #SerialKiller #Revenge #ClariceStarling #JackCrawford #HannibalLecter #Hannibal #ThomasHarris ‘Hannibal’ by Thomas Harris

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I will check out Firekeeper's Daughter. Thanks for the recommendation.

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I am about 70% in and loving it. Anxious People made me so emotional by the end that I was crying. I also loved A Man Called Ove and the Beartown trilogy. Being from a hockey-crazy country, that trilogy hit hard.

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #AmReading #NowReading #Bookworm #SwedishLiterature #Friendship #Painting #Artists #Art #PsychologicalFiction #MyFriends #FredrikBackman ‘My Friends’ by Fredrik Backman

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Must say #FredrikBackman has a way with words. This made me chuckle. #MyFriends #HabaneroSuppository #Booksky #Books

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

This ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #AmReading #NowReading #Bookworm #HistoricalFiction #CanadianLiterature #Vimy #Bavaria #WorldWarI #Immigrants #KlaraBecker #TilmanBecker #WalterAllward #Grief #Memorial #TheStoneCarvers #JaneUrquhart ‘The Stone Carvers’ by Jane Urquhart

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #AmReading #NowReading #Bookworm #HollyGibney #NeverFlinch #Horror #Thriller #CrimeFiction #Suspense #PsychologicalThriller #StephenKing @stephenking.bsky.social ‘Never Flinch’ by Stephen King

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I loved HFoG ending. What a twist.

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Happy Thanksgiving, my fellow Canadians. Couldn't write a better message than #RaghuVenugopalMD, so here goes ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #AmReading #NowReading #Bookworm #AustralianLiterature #Outback #AustralianOutback #Crime #Thriller #Violence #AliceToNowhere #EvanGreen ‘Alice to Nowhere’ by Evan Green

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #AmReading #NowReading #Bookworm #ScienceFiction #Dystopian #Feminism #PakistaniLiterature #Apocalyptic #Totalitarianism #Authoritarianism #GenderSelection #GenderImbalance #Panah #BeforeSheSleeps #BinaShah ‘Before She Sleeps’ by Bina Shah

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

#Booksky #Books #GraphicNovel #YA #YoungAdult #TimeTravel #Fantasy #Friendship #PaperGirls #BrianKVaughan @cliffchiang.bsky.social‬ #MattWilson #JaredKFletcher ‘Paper Girls: The Complete Story’ by Brian K Vaughan (Writer), Cliff Chiang (Art), Matt Wilson (Color) & Jared K Fletcher (Letters)

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

A Canadian legend is gone. #GrahamGreene #RIPGrahamGreene

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Samantha L.G. McCrea @samanthamccrea.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I authored 2 books this summer! They are both available on Amazon in paperback and kindle format. Go easy on me, it's my first try! If you're a Great War buff, these are for you! Thanks, now go buy my books! 📚😊 #booksky #author #CanadianContent #WW1 #GreatWar #Lestweforget #booktok #Resist #books

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Read this one a couple of years ago. Excellent book. The last chapter still haunts me. Happy reading!

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Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #AmReading #NowReading #Bookworm #Motherhood #Guilt #Accountability #SocialNorms #IdealismVsReality #Psychopath #SocialOutcast #Katchadourian #WeNeedToTalkAboutKevin #LionelShriver ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ by Lionel Shriver

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #AmReading #NowReading #Bookworm #AllenEskens #Thriller #Psychological #DysfunctionalFamily #Fiction #VietnamWar #TheLifeWeBury #CarlIverson ‪@alleneskens.bsky.social ‘The Life We Bury’ by Allen Eskens

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

So true...

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

#Sunrise #GoodMorning

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #HouseOfSlaughter #Azure #Horror #GraphicNovel @jamesthefourth.bsky.social @wertherdelledera.bsky.social ‪@francescosegala.bsky.social‬ ‘House of Slaughter: Volume Six (Azure)’ by James Tynion IV, Sam Johns, Werther Dell’Edera, Letizia Cadonici, & Francesco Segala

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

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Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #NowReading #TroopsForTruddiChase #DID #DissociativeIdentityDisorder #MentalHealth #ChildhoodAbuse #SexualAbuse #WhenRabbitHowls #TruddiChase ‘When Rabbit Howls: A First-Person Account of Multiple Personality, Memory, and Recovery’ by The Troops for Truddi Chase

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

#Pride2025 #PrideMonth #Pride

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #AmReading #NowReading #Bookworm #Saga #SpaceOpera #Fantasy #ImageComics #FionaStaples #BrianKVaughan ‪@imagecomics.com‬ ‘Saga: Volume Twelve’ by Fiona Staples (Artist) and Brian K Vaughan (Writer)

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Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

#Booksky #Books #NowReading #Bookworm #Horror #GraphicNovel #EricaSlaughter #HouseOfSlaughter @jamesthefourth.bsky.social @wertherdelledera.bsky.social @miquelmuerto.bsky.social ‘Something is Killing the Children - Volume 8’ by James Tynion IV, Werther Dell’Edera, and Miquel (Muerto) Rodriguez

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

#Booksky #Books #HouseOfSlaughter #TheButchersWar #Horror #GraphicNovel @jamesthefourth.bsky.social @tatebrombal.bsky.social @wertherdelledera.bsky.social #AntonioFuso @miquelmuerto.bsky.social ‘House of Slaughter: Volume Five (The Butcher's War) by James Tynion IV, Werther Dell’Edera, and team

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

This book has been on my wishlist for a few months. Have heard nothing but good things about it. Time to move it to my shopping cart I guess.

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Clarence was phenomenal.

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

#ElbowsUp #ElectionDay #CanadaElections2025 #CanadaStrong #Vote Election day, my fellow Canadians. If you have not already, please go out and cast your vote.

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #NowReading #Bookworm #GraphicNovel #Comics #Horror #ScienceFiction #HistoricalFiction #War #PrometheusInitiative #Genetics #PTSD #BodyHorror #FamilyDrama #PoliticalThriller #MetaphysicalJourney #Monsters #BarryWindsorSmith ‘Monsters’ by Barry Windsor-Smith

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Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Read this a couple of years ago and loved it. Unpredictable. #Booksky #Books

Zafar Shamsi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾ᴮᴸᴹ @zafarshamsi.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Such a great read. I loved it. 1984 vibes. #Booksky #Books