Vanishing Monuments | 
Second online literary event of my day: John Elizabeth Stintzi and Marta Orriols at the Toronto International Festival of Authors.
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Second online literary event of my day: John Elizabeth Stintzi and Marta Orriols at the Toronto International Festival of Authors.
pickLook at all my flags in this novel! I took in the gorgeous prose in small sips over the course of 2 months. The non-binary author uses a fragmentary circular style to tell a rewarding story about memory and coming to terms with a difficult parent-child relationship. The central character illuminates their internal experience as a non-binary person, which may partly explain why I felt like this book was altering my brain. #CanadianAuthor #queer
Most monuments, eventually, make their memories stuffy. They make you think there is only one version of something you should remember. They make you think the past is clean and over.
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The umbrella fwoops open.
Beside the phone is the answering machine, which no longer has a tape in it. The phone is no longer plugged into it—a skull that nobody tells stories to anymore.
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We both loved our mothers so much, if only because we couldn‘t reach them or do anything to help them. We cared about them and watched them break themselves down.
Hello folks! Greetings everyone! It has come to my attention that July 14th is International Non-binary Day. I happen to be reading a novel by a non-binary author at the moment (tagged), but that is merely coincidence. 🏳️🌈
Me relaxing on my final day of being 59. #gardenlife
Backyard reading spot. When I take a break from gardening, baking bread and a cake, and crafting. 😉
“How long has it been since you visited?” she asks.
“Sometime around Christmas,” I say, because it‘s a shorter sentence than: Never.
