The Stone Collection | 
pickMy last read of April, the latest book of short stories included in the Indigenous Reading Circle - I really enjoyed the voice in the stories, and quite a bit of internal dialogue, something I've learned I like when done well.
He‘s thinking of his sister. There‘s nothing I can say to him. None of the stock words of comfort. We both know it‘s not okay. That it‘ll never be okay. That she won‘t be coming home. Won‘t be found. And if by some bizarre twist of fate she ever does return it‘ll be in pieces even if she‘s still breathing.
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“Scars are poems of survival, written across our bodies.”
(I will keep this in mind as I heal from skin cancer surgery. I used the b&w filter to remove some of the gruesomeness.)
It‘s the second time on my blog that I‘ve amassed a collection of Tim Hortons references in fiction. Three of them are from #Indigenous authors & two are from #queer authors.
https://lindypratch.blogspot.com/2018/08/further-tim-hortons-references-in.html?...
#CanadianAuthor
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Buster was a small goofy-looking rez mutt. Except that no dogs are mutts these days. They‘re Golden Doodles, Chorkies, Affenpoos, Spoodles, Jugs, Chugs, and, as she liked to call them, Shih-T-Poos. Buster was a Dogle: part Miniature Doberman, part Beagle.
After her evening meal she would listen to the radio or watch television. She liked watching game shows. Said the greed was fascinating, “like watching dogs fight,” she‘d say. Except “Wheel of Greed” as she called it. She didn‘t like that one at all. “Using the circle like that,” she‘d say wrinkling her nose. “Sah.”
#IndigenousVoices
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Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm was reading at the U of Alberta today. She said she was wearing a red shirt to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women. The red ribbon on her arm was from yesterday‘s march for justice for Colten Boushie. #Anishinaabe #IndigenousAuthor
pickThe lives and loves of Anishinaabe people. Don't miss the story of Chloe, heartbreaking, but a reality for the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women.
Just heard the author, an indigenous Canadian writer of the Chippewa nation, interviewed on CBC Radio's The Next Chapter and definitely want to check out these short stories: "exploring the gamut of modern Anishinaabe experience."
