Anthony Pash (he/him)

@anthonypash.bsky.social

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Academic librarian in Nova Scotia, union negotiator, avid reader, movie buff, news junky, ally, and lover of food and gardens.

2026 Reading Goals. You have read 100 books this year. 100/130 books. You are ahead by 29 books!
Book cover of The Other by Thomas Tryon.
Book cover of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown.
Audiobook cover of The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell.
Book cover of Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian.
Book in the foreground - Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian. Ducks swimming in a brook in the background.
Ducks enjoying a day in the water.
Book cover of Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion.
Cover collage for @apash’s June 2026 reads on Storygraph. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carre, An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis, Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe, Stoner by John Williams, Anne of the Island by Lucy Maude Montgomery, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, and The Owl Service by Alan Garner.
Book cover of The Owl Service by Alan Garner.
Book cover of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
Book cover of Stoner by John Williams.
Book cover of Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe.
Book cover of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré.
Book cover of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson.
Book cover of Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates.
Audiobook cover of If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin. Read by Bahni Turpin.
Cover collage: Anne of Avonlea, Player Piano, Nine Stories, A Kiss Before Dying, Moon of the Encrusted Snow, Lucky Jim, The Talented Mr. Ripley, City of Brass, The Gate of the Feral Gods, A Parade of Horribles, Giovanni’s Room, The Haunting of Hill House, Rabbit Run, Night, Abolition, Mutual Aid, Platform Decay.
Book cover of Rabbit, Run by John Updike.
Book cover of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.
Book cover of Night by Elie Wiesel.
Book cover of Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov.
Book cover of Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin.
Book cover of A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman.
Book cover of The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith.
Book cover of Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis.
Audiobook cover of Platform Decay by Martha Wells.
Audiobook cover of A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin.
Book cover of Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger.
Book cover of Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Photograph showing a beer on the left and paperback copy of Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut on leg on the right. Chickens in the background on a sunny day.
Storygraph summary for @apash’s April 2026 Wrap-Up. Books: 16. Pages; 4,054. Av. Rating: 4.43. Highest rated reads: I Capture the Castle, Anne of Green Gables and Man’s Search for Meaning. Pie chart showing 88% fiction, 13% nonfiction. Bar chart showing 11 books were classics, 5 were literary, 4 were science fiction, 3 were short stories, and 3 were historical. Another pie chart showing 75% were print books and 25% were audiobooks. A final chart shows the pages read each day ranging from 28 to around 280.
Book cover of The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham.
Audiobook cover of The Dying Earth by Jack Vance.
Book cover of The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles.
Photo of a squirrel on a wooden board inside a wooden shed looking unimpressed.
Screenshot of libro.fm checkout: A Damsel in Distress by P. G. Woodhouse; I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones; Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice; My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix; The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty.
Book cover of I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.
Photo on the back deck. Book on my knee (I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith) and beer in my hand.
Book cover of In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes.
Book cover of Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl.
Book cover of Loving. Living. Party Going. By Henry Green.
Book cover of Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges.
Book cover of Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector.
Book cover of The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus.
Book cover of Chess Story by Stefan Zweig.
Book cover of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.
Cover collage from @apash’s StoryGraph account for March 2026. Top row from left to right: Sanctuary by William Faulkner; Rebecca by Rebecca du Maurier; Lost Horizon by James Hilton; and The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain. Middle row: Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck; Nightwood by Djuna Barnes; Martin Eden by Jack London; and Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman. Bottom row: Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz; The Sentence by Louise Erdrich; The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler; and Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones.
Book cover of The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler.
Audiobook cover of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.
Book cover of Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz.
Audiobook cover of The Sentence by Louise Erdrich.
Book cover of Nightwood by Djuna Barnes.
Book cover of Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck.
Book cover of Cain x 3: Three Famous Novels by James M. Cain.
Book cover of Lost Horizon by James Hilton.
Stack of books. From top to bottom: Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito; Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt; The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez; Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link; A Collapse of Horses and Father of Lies by Brian Evenson; Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters by John Langan; and The Willows and Others by Algernon Blackwood.