Sorry luddites but this technology is here to stay and if you are not learning to use these tools then you are falling behind.
10.10.2025 03:18 β π 639 π 83 π¬ 4 π 0@helloiamben.bsky.social
Author of novel "I Remember Lights" (2025) and 2 poetry books π³οΈβππ¨π¦
Sorry luddites but this technology is here to stay and if you are not learning to use these tools then you are falling behind.
10.10.2025 03:18 β π 639 π 83 π¬ 4 π 0"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
02.10.2025 13:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Pick up @helloiamben.bsky.social's new book from @robmclennan.bsky.social however you can.
29.09.2025 03:51 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0sir that is a dragonite
27.09.2025 03:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0donβt give me my phone after an edible
26.09.2025 06:07 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0A novel told entirely in Slack messages (Several People Are Typing @kasulke.co) was the perfect 2-hr train ride book for me recently
08.08.2025 15:38 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0#bookreview: I Remember Lights by @helloiamben.bsky.social is "a lyrical read and a profound examination of the human condition through one manβs eyes.β Deb Stratis on Ladouceur's acclaimed novel for Historical Novel Society. historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/i-re...
06.08.2025 15:59 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks for this! It's an honour - and i too ADORE the good folks at @valancourtbooks.bsky.social and all that they publish!! β€οΈβπ»
02.08.2025 01:44 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0βI 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...
Get a free pack of 6 CanLit Cards plus a stick of gum with every These Days order this summer?
27.07.2025 16:27 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0To a certain subset of Canadian millennials and older generations, she is a comedy god
25.07.2025 12:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"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 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Ladouceurβs dΓ©but novel is a splendid read that celebrates gay life and honours queer resistance and resilience.β
βRichard Burnett, Fugues Magazine
Read more about Ben Ladouceur critically-acclaimed queer coming-of-age dΓ©but novel, I Remember Lights.
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21.07.2025 19:54 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βCanadian poetryβnot actually written in maple syrup! Not entirely about beavers!β In a reading slump? Try these poets from up north.
06.07.2025 15:01 β π 20 π 10 π¬ 0 π 0Ben'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 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Yes! 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 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0image of novel βi remember lightsβ 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 authorβs 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 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0β€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈ
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
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."
27.06.2025 17:40 β π 38 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0While 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
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JAKE WINS! "Daddy" is a possibly perfect poetry collection, and the queer book we all need today.
19.06.2025 13:03 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Progress is rarely a straight line.π
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
Watch @helloiamben.bsky.social discuss his novel, I Remember Lights, in a special segment on @ctvnewsottawa.bsky.social. Congrats Ben!
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/video...
Books featured here include: π Green by Zachari Logan (available to review) π Widow Fantasies by ours truly, Hollay Ghadery (available to review) π Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo (coming September 2025) π Ajar by Margo LaPierre (coming October 2025) π A Thousand Tiny Awakenings edited by Connor Lafortune and Lindsay Mayhew (available to review) π Home Fires Burn by Anthony Bidulka (available to review) π 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. π
Want to review any of these books? Drop us a line:
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#pride
Please stop using A.I. for resistance stuff. Itβs like yelling DOWN WITH CAPITALISM while pushing a full Costco cart.
Why are there two elmos. Who the fuck is that.
Today weβre back with another instalment of Pride on the Page: a Collaborative Reading List of Works by Queer Authors!
Todayβs pick is made by Ben Ladouceur, author of I Remember Lights!
Ben has selected In September, the Light Changes by Andrew Holleran.
#pride2025
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 πΏοΈπ€
09.06.2025 17:57 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0need 2 gay men to kill me like a hitchcocks rope situation
09.06.2025 01:11 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0"Sadly, it told a relevant storyβ 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.
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