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Did anyone else catch this article! I can't handle. She's a queen!

https://people.com/idaho-graduate-gives-superintendent-copy-of-the-handmaid-s-ta...

Beautifully written story. Set in Ireland and Canada, from Irish famine to the Canadian Shield to Port Hope, Montreal and Ottawa this book tells the story of several generations of women from one family.

Not exactly “beach reads,” but that‘s okay, since the closest I‘ll be getting to the beach this summer is Shark Week.

#Roll100

😳 I‘ve been bailing left & right on audiobooks, including the tagged novel, The Wren the Wren, two Toibin novels, among others.

I‘m in an audio drought. 🏜️🌵

This spinster tale spiraled into a forsaken place I did not expect at all. Judy is left hollow and abandoned even in her faith or lack thereof. 😑 I suppose that is her singular passion - loneliness.

Good grief.

https://youtu.be/PTIAkbsXLUc?feature=shared

Superb. The eminently frustrating part of reading an author with such a way with words is not being able to convey your admiration in as worthy terms! The characters are searingly alive, yet subtle portraits of struggle, their stories, strains making up the minor chorus, are a mix of heartbreaking and hopeful, joyful, clear testaments, analogues of the realities of Indigenous experience in what is called Canada. 1/?

“...to insist on a form of gender that wasn't a natural disaster but rather a sprawling field where nothing was a coffin someone could fall into.“
DAMN. Again, the way Belcourt uses words leaves me stunned wordless in appreciation.

Belcourt, man. 👏🏻 He says such relatable things in such an eloquent and original fashion. You recognize it as a thought pulled from your brain, but know you'd never have the words to say it the way he does. 🤌🏻