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The Stone Collection
The Stone Collection | Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
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In these 14 unique stories, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm takes on complex and dangerous emotions, exploring the gamut of modern Anishinaabe experience. Through unforgettable characters, these stories--about love and lust, suicide and survival, illness and wholeness--illuminate the strange workings of the human heart.
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ReadingEnvy
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My 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.

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Lindy
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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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Lindy
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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.)

alisiakae Best wishes for a healthy recovery! 6y
LazyDays 💞👏 6y
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julesG Speedy recovery with minimal scaring. 6y
Lindy @julesG 🤞😘 6y
silentrequiem Wishing you a speedy and full recovery! 6y
Soubhiville Oh no! Wishing you healing! 6y
JessClark78 Wishing you a speedy recovery. 6y
LeahBergen Ooooh! 😩 Hugs to you! 6y
sprainedbrain Oh my goodness!! Hope you heal quickly. 🤗 6y
MaureenMc 🙏💗 6y
readordierachel Hope it heals up quick and isn't too painful. 6y
Ddzmini Awe send good thoughts, hugs, and prayers your way 🙏 6y
Lindy @silentrequiem @Soubhiville @JessClark78 @LeahBergen @sprainedbrain @MaureenMc @ReadOrDieRachel @Ddzmini Thanks everyone for your healing wishes. The stitches will come out on Monday and it should be looking and feeling much better by then. 6y
Redwritinghood I had one removed from my shin last year. I hope yours heals up quickly. 6y
SoniaC Best wishes for a speedy recovery. 6y
Lindy @Redwritinghood @SoniaC Thanks for your good wishes. 😘😘 6y
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Lindy
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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?...
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LauraBeth I can vividly recall Louise Penny referencing Tim Hortons 😂 (edited) 6y
Lindy @LauraBeth Ooh! Which one of hers? I would like to start another collection. 6y
LauraBeth I read it in Still Life and A Fatal Grace so maybe she mentions it in all of her books! 6y
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Lindy @LauraBeth I guess it‘s time for a reread. I read the first two in the series twelve years ago. I don‘t remember Tim Hortons in the more recent ones. 🍩☕️😊 (edited) 6y
LauraBeth @lindy thought about this as I came upon a Tim Horton reference yesterday while reading Nice Try, Jane Sinner 6y
Lindy @LauraBeth Oh! I want details! On what page? (edited) 6y
LauraBeth @lindy pg 43: “I went for a run this morning in my old gym shorts, with a Tim Hortons gift card (a parting gift from the parents; they believe in well-caffeinated students) tucked inside my hoodie. I ran for half an hour, stopped for coffee, then took my time walking home.” 6y
Lindy @LauraBeth Thanks. 😘And I look forward to reading the whole book, based on your review. 😁 6y
LauraBeth @Lindy it‘s set in Calgary 😀 6y
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Lindy
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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.

Texreader What a cutie!! 6y
Lindy @Texreader I met this little guy in Keno, in northern Yukon Territory. 6y
AmyG He is so cute! 6y
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LeahBergen That would make my dog-niece a Borgle (a Border Collie-Beagle cross). 😆😆 6y
Lindy @LeahBergen There‘s a Borgles Island in Nova Scotia. 👍 6y
LeahBergen I‘ll let her know that‘s where her “breed” comes from. 😉 6y
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Lindy
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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.”
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CatLass007 I had a professor who worked on that show. He called it Wheel of Torture. 6y
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Lindy
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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

Lindy @CouronneDhiver - for your #indigenousreads project 7y
CouronneDhiver You‘re awesome. Thanks for being so supportive. I feel like I‘m learned my a lot already. 😊 7y
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Jolynne
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The 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.

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shawnmooney
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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."

BookishFeminist This looks wonderful! 8y
shawnmooney @BookishFeminist Doesn't it? This is the (12-minute) interview I listened to, in case you're interested. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/robert-sawyer-kateri-akiwenzie-damm-summe... 8y
BookishFeminist I am, thanks! 8y
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