"That's a funny-looking strike." (Moe when they form a bowling team and a teammate, possibly Otto, does not score a strike.) To me there are like 100 layers to why this is funny, like Moe is just bursting with hate for all people; that is so not how you motivate people; Moe didn't strike either, etc
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Pick up @helloiamben.bsky.social's new book from @robmclennan.bsky.social however you can.
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sir that is a dragonite
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donโt give me my phone after an edible
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A novel told entirely in Slack messages (Several People Are Typing @kasulke.co) was the perfect 2-hr train ride book for me recently
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Thanks for this! It's an honour - and i too ADORE the good folks at @valancourtbooks.bsky.social and all that they publish!! โค๏ธโ๐ป
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โI Remember Lights kindles a bright future of gay romance, and asks who-, where-, however might we have kept it alight?" Andrew Woodrow-Butcher reviews @helloiamben.bsky.social's acclaimed novel for Plenitude Magazine.
plenitudemagazine.ca/no-place-lik...
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Get a free pack of 6 CanLit Cards plus a stick of gum with every These Days order this summer?
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To a certain subset of Canadian millennials and older generations, she is a comedy god
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No Place Like Far-From-Home: A Review of I Remember Lights by Ben Ladouceur โ Plenitude Magazine
"Sweet, bitter, optimistic, and appropriately angry" is maybe my favourite way I've seen anything written by me ever described, lol. Really love this review from Plenitude Magazine plenitudemagazine.ca/no-place-lik...
24.07.2025 01:31 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Ladouceurโs dรฉbut novel is a splendid read that celebrates gay life and honours queer resistance and resilience.โ
โRichard Burnett, Fugues Magazine
Read more about Ben Ladouceur critically-acclaimed queer coming-of-age dรฉbut novel, I Remember Lights.
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my pride flag
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Ben's book by my mom's blue duck lamp, run with a necklace my son made.
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05.07.2025 03:15 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Yes! Once I was waiting at the apple genius bar and took the book i was reading out of my bag, and read it. The guy beside me said "what a great way to signal your impatience!" and talked at me a lot so i couldn't read. It wasnt a performance! I was just really into that book!
05.07.2025 16:03 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
image of novel โi remember lightsโ by ben ladouceur, held up in front of a green couch with multi coloured blanket and orange cushion in background.
the cover of the book is cream and features the title and authorโs name in capital letters against a collage-inspired background image of several colours
currently reading (and absolutely loving) i remember lights, by the wonderful one & only @helloiamben.bsky.social
04.07.2025 23:05 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
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Also i read your alt text wrong and read "the cover of this book is ice cream" and i thought immediately "she's right" lol
Xoxoxoxo
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I went out to shovel dirt on my lunch break (not randomly; I am landscaping) and the final shovelfull tipped the wheelbarrow over and all the dirt fell out, and as I reshovelled it back in, my arms more tired but the dirt at least looser, I thought "this is like writing a novel."
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Pride Stories for 2025 ยท Lists ยท 49th Shelf
Great new books by LGBTQ2S+ writers
While June may be Pride, at 49th Shelf, we celebrate 2SLGBTQ+ writers all year 'round! Check out some of our recommendations with titles from @bookhugpress.bsky.social @nimbuspub.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social @atriabooks.bsky.social
49thshelf.com/Lists/Member... #CanLit #QueerWriters
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JAKE WINS! "Daddy" is a possibly perfect poetry collection, and the queer book we all need today.
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New book on 1977 gay bar raid in Montreal
The 1977 police raid at Montreal gay bar Truxx was a turning point for LGBTQ2S+ rights in Quebec and Canada. Local author Ben Ladouceur has penned a new book.
Progress is rarely a straight line.๐
In this CTV interview, writer Ben Ladouceur talks about his gorgeous novel, I Remember Lights (@bookhugpress.bsky.social ) & his writing about notorious 1977 police raid on a gay bar, Truxx.
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/video...
#pride @helloiamben.bsky.social
19.06.2025 12:10 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2
Books featured here include:
๐ Green by Zachari Logan (available to review)
๐ Widow Fantasies by ours truly, Hollay Ghadery (available to review)
๐ Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo (coming September 2025)
๐ Ajar by Margo LaPierre (coming October 2025)
๐ A Thousand Tiny Awakenings edited by Connor Lafortune and Lindsay Mayhew (available to review)
๐ Home Fires Burn by Anthony Bidulka (available to review)
๐ I Remember Lights by Ben Ladouceur (available to review)
This month (and every month) we have the opportunity to celebrate LGBTQ+ authors and artists in the book community. ๐
Want to review any of these books? Drop us a line:
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16.06.2025 14:43 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Please stop using A.I. for resistance stuff. Itโs like yelling DOWN WITH CAPITALISM while pushing a full Costco cart.
Why are there two elmos. Who the fuck is that.
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Me pointing at my book in a window display.
A pile of my book, I Remember Lights, on a bookstore table among other books
My novel in the window at Black Squirrel Books in Ottawa, a bookstore i have loved for a long time ๐ฟ๏ธ๐ค
09.06.2025 17:57 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
need 2 gay men to kill me like a hitchcocks rope situation
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Expo Love in Queer Montreal: The Chat with Ben Ladouceur ยท Blog Post ยท 49th Shelf
Crafting a novel that pairs all the exhilaration of a queer romance set against the frenzied backdrop of Expo 67 in Montreal is a delicious feat in itself. ...
"Sadly, it told a relevant storyโ not about things getting gradually worse, but about good things being completely unsafe, and potentially subject to destruction at any moment." Trevor Corkum interviews @helloiamben.bsky.social for The Chat from @49thshelf.bsky.social.
49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/06...
06.06.2025 15:55 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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