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Goodbye Harold, Good Luck
Goodbye Harold, Good Luck | Audrey Thomas
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Now 81, American-born Audrey Thomas has lived in Canada since 1959. She's one of Canadian lit's best-kept secrets; many of these stories, which explore the autobiographical themes - divorce, motherhood, artistic reinvention, and exile - that animate much of her fiction, are eye-poppingly good. Stellar writing and rebellious, talented, sexual, often deliciously acerbic female protagonists: irresistible or what?

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Hobbinol Alrighty then. 7y
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saresmoore Yes. 7y
Suet624 Oh boy. Yes it is. 7y
Suet624 @saresmoore I didn't see you responded to this until after I posted my thoughts. Of course you and I would know about this. 😉 7y
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saresmoore @Suet624 Of course! 🙃 7y
Redwritinghood I can vouch for this 7y
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thegirlwiththelibrarybag Could be worse. Could be a cucumber. 7y
saresmoore Well, I think I've found the inspiration for my next tattoo! 7y
LeahBergen It could be worse. 🍆 7y
shawnmooney There goes @LeahBergen again, forever eggplanting me on! 😂😘😂😘 7y
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I would NEVER be late for a lunch date with this woman. 💜💜

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Lindy Perfect photo. 7y
saresmoore Ha! Yes, what @Lindy said! 7y
LeahBergen This photo! 😂 7y
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I can't remember the last time I read anything about family dynamics that struck me as being as true as this…

LeahBergen Geez. So true! 7y
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Hobbinol Yikes! How embarrassing to find a piece of the barn in her crevice. Her mama must be so proud!😳 7y
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This is the beginning to one of these short stories, and I think it's just stunning.

saresmoore I need to read the rest of this. 7y
shawnmooney @saresmoore I'd be tickled pink if you did! 💜❤ 7y
saresmoore @shawnmooney I will take any and all of your recommendations! 7y
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LeahBergen This photo makes me want to do the very same thing... 7y
shawnmooney @LeahBergen Quel surprise! 😂😂 7y
LeahBergen 👉🏻 *boop* 7y
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saresmoore This comment thread may have just made my night! @LeahBergen 👏 7y
Caterina That statue's probably a hermaphrodite actually 😂 7y
shawnmooney @Caterina actually, I had to do quite an extensive Google image search to find a reclining statue with boobies. So maybe I got it correct? Lol (edited) 7y
Caterina @shawnmooney There's a chance, but the reclining hermaphrodite type generally does have breasts, it increases the fun shock value when you see the other side! (edited) 7y
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LeahBergen Baha! Poor Miss Foote! 7y
shawnmooney @LeahBergen My quote for today that, the last sentence at least, you can relate to the least! 😍 7y
LeahBergen Well, aren't you a darling! 😘 7y
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Macnjen Oozy if this is a quote from this book title I am in! 7y
shawnmooney @Macnjen It most definitely is! Audrey Thomas has never attained the recognition she deserves, in my humble opinion… 7y
Lindy Love her style. I've only read Tattycoram but Graven Images was on my TBR. Now this! 7y
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shawnmooney @Lindy Wonderful. I want to read absolutely everything she's ever written – she's still alive and in her early 80s and her last book was published in 2014. It's indescribably satisfying to be reading her fiction again after years and years and to respond as deeply to it still… 7y
Lindy @shawnmooney Oh, if only we had the capacity to read as many books as we wanted! 7y
shawnmooney @Lindy You come pretty darn close! ❤❤ 7y
lynneamch I didn't know of her before, so looked up some of her other work. Hard to choose, but I'm going to stack this one first 7y
shawnmooney @lynneamch Great! I want to read it too. Please just keep in mind that she was nearly 80 when it came out so if it doesn't wow you (I expect it will) please try one of her earlier books. :) 7y
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I loved some of her stories two decades or so ago; I'm feeling nostalgic and excited to read more of them all these years later…
#BacklistBinge

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I think it was in the early 90s that I went to one of her readings and then read a collection of her stories, which I loved. I picked this one up for #BacklistBinge!

LeahBergen I went to a reading for Isobel Gunn. I loved it. 7y
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