Leslie Greentree
@lesliegreentree.bsky.social
Author of four books, most recently the #shortstories NOT THE APOCALYPSE I WAS HOPING FOR (2022). Avid reader. Occasional essayist. Photo snapper. Lover of trees, dogs, rust and pollinators. Sign up for my newsletter at www.LeslieGreentree.ca
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This selection of books is perfect for the person who starts planning their next Halloween costume on November 1, is waiting for S3 of Interview with a Vampire, and loves an unreliable narrator.
Enter the code HAPPYHOLIDAYS2025 for 30% off this year’s releases!
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Enter the code HAPPYHOLIDAYS2025 for 30% off this year’s releases!
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November 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This selection of books is perfect for the person who starts planning their next Halloween costume on November 1, is waiting for S3 of Interview with a Vampire, and loves an unreliable narrator.
Enter the code HAPPYHOLIDAYS2025 for 30% off this year’s releases!
ecwpress.com/blogs/whats-...
Enter the code HAPPYHOLIDAYS2025 for 30% off this year’s releases!
ecwpress.com/blogs/whats-...
NGL, this one resonates.
MOM vs. GRANDMA
1:00 p.m. / Living Room
This first fight will center around generational trauma and fruit salad. It will set the tone for the rest of the event.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...
1:00 p.m. / Living Room
This first fight will center around generational trauma and fruit salad. It will set the tone for the rest of the event.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...
Your Family’s Thanksgiving Fight Schedule
Due to the overwhelming number of anticipated brawls this Thanksgiving, we decided to streamline your day with an Official Family Thanksgiving Figh...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
NGL, this one resonates.
Words are the pretty, lying gloves over the clawed, dirty hands of our souls. Words are like a doily we place over our seething hearts, a strand of pearls we wear around our necks to prettify the veins.
A fun #SundaySentence for all my writer friends from We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad.
A fun #SundaySentence for all my writer friends from We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad.
November 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Words are the pretty, lying gloves over the clawed, dirty hands of our souls. Words are like a doily we place over our seething hearts, a strand of pearls we wear around our necks to prettify the veins.
A fun #SundaySentence for all my writer friends from We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad.
A fun #SundaySentence for all my writer friends from We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad.
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Good morning! This week for @opinion.bloomberg.com, I wrote about the effective messaging of Emma Thompson and @realgdt.bsky.social telling AI to fuck off:
Emma Thompson’s NSFW Rant Is Just What the AI Boom Needed
Emma Thompson is very good at many things — acting, screenwriting, penning children’s books — and in recent years, she’s also become quite accomplished at going viral. She did it again this week, duri...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Good morning! This week for @opinion.bloomberg.com, I wrote about the effective messaging of Emma Thompson and @realgdt.bsky.social telling AI to fuck off:
“We are entangled and every knot and loop
of shared failure seems to tighten
until something falls away as we walk away
each in our own confused direction.”
#SundaySentence #TodaysPoem
From the poem “Chasm and Divide” from @lornedaniel.bsky.social’s beautiful collection, What is Broken Binds Us.
of shared failure seems to tighten
until something falls away as we walk away
each in our own confused direction.”
#SundaySentence #TodaysPoem
From the poem “Chasm and Divide” from @lornedaniel.bsky.social’s beautiful collection, What is Broken Binds Us.
November 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
“We are entangled and every knot and loop
of shared failure seems to tighten
until something falls away as we walk away
each in our own confused direction.”
#SundaySentence #TodaysPoem
From the poem “Chasm and Divide” from @lornedaniel.bsky.social’s beautiful collection, What is Broken Binds Us.
of shared failure seems to tighten
until something falls away as we walk away
each in our own confused direction.”
#SundaySentence #TodaysPoem
From the poem “Chasm and Divide” from @lornedaniel.bsky.social’s beautiful collection, What is Broken Binds Us.
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Halloween is the best holiday because it's all about people giving neighbors and strangers treats for free and telling kids how awesome they are.
November 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Halloween is the best holiday because it's all about people giving neighbors and strangers treats for free and telling kids how awesome they are.
I love handing out candy to kids of all ages, and I truly love seeing teens out trick or treating - it’s so wholesome. And my red-eyed cawing crow is a big hit with my two-year-old neighbour (Mr. Lion to you). #halloween2025 #communitylove
November 1, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I love handing out candy to kids of all ages, and I truly love seeing teens out trick or treating - it’s so wholesome. And my red-eyed cawing crow is a big hit with my two-year-old neighbour (Mr. Lion to you). #halloween2025 #communitylove
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"When I got the assignment from my editor, Trish, to write a piece on the famous gothic castle in the Carpathian Mountains, I knew I should have told her that’s where my brother went missing three years ago. And his fiancée. And my dad. And his fiancée."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/emi...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/emi...
Emily Henry’s Dracula
I get to The Garlic Not, and the place is packed with regulars. I decide to sit at the bar, and an old man with the fewest teeth I’ve ever seen han...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"When I got the assignment from my editor, Trish, to write a piece on the famous gothic castle in the Carpathian Mountains, I knew I should have told her that’s where my brother went missing three years ago. And his fiancée. And my dad. And his fiancée."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/emi...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/emi...
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I'm pumped to share the perfectly unsettling cover (designed by @michelvrana.com) for my novel THE PEACE THIEVES, out June 16, 2026 from @thistledownpress.bsky.social! Details and preorder info here: www.brentvans.com/books/the-pe... #canlit #fiction #novel
October 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I'm pumped to share the perfectly unsettling cover (designed by @michelvrana.com) for my novel THE PEACE THIEVES, out June 16, 2026 from @thistledownpress.bsky.social! Details and preorder info here: www.brentvans.com/books/the-pe... #canlit #fiction #novel
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Hip, hip, hooray for Weird Girl books! crimereads.com/weird-girl-l...
Weird Girl Lit Galore: 10 Novels Featuring Unabashedly Unhinged Female Characters
The weird girl character seems to be everywhere in literary fiction these days—and she’s only getting weirder. Since Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation, whose unnamed main character …
crimereads.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Hip, hip, hooray for Weird Girl books! crimereads.com/weird-girl-l...
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"This is a milestone which should have never been crossed, and today we fight so that it won't be crossed again.”
A dispatch from me and @reportrix.bsky.social on Alberta’s student walkout in response to the government’s back to work order for teachers and the use of the notwithstanding clause.
A dispatch from me and @reportrix.bsky.social on Alberta’s student walkout in response to the government’s back to work order for teachers and the use of the notwithstanding clause.
Alberta students cut class, rally at legislature for teachers in strike-bill dispute
EDMONTON - Hundreds of students cut class Thursday to march and chant against Alberta's shutdown of a teachers strike in protests that saw Premier Danielle Smith compared to a cold-hearted,
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
October 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"This is a milestone which should have never been crossed, and today we fight so that it won't be crossed again.”
A dispatch from me and @reportrix.bsky.social on Alberta’s student walkout in response to the government’s back to work order for teachers and the use of the notwithstanding clause.
A dispatch from me and @reportrix.bsky.social on Alberta’s student walkout in response to the government’s back to work order for teachers and the use of the notwithstanding clause.
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An appalling, unjust, law drives teachers back to work. The most dangerous precedent Alberta has seen In many years. Column.
calgaryherald.com/news/braid-a... #abed #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #cdnpoli
calgaryherald.com/news/braid-a... #abed #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #cdnpoli
Braid: An appalling, unjust law drives Alberta teachers back to work
Alberta teacher are going back to work, but the law that drives them lingers as a dangerous attack on rights
calgaryherald.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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And yes, I've run across (online and in person) the folks who are all "but what if there are kids who DON'T DESERVE FREE CANDY FROM ME" and to them I say, FREE CANDY FOR ALL attend to the full-sized Snickers in your eye before you criticize the funsize MilkyWay of your neighbors' kids.
September 18, 2023 at 6:54 PM
And yes, I've run across (online and in person) the folks who are all "but what if there are kids who DON'T DESERVE FREE CANDY FROM ME" and to them I say, FREE CANDY FOR ALL attend to the full-sized Snickers in your eye before you criticize the funsize MilkyWay of your neighbors' kids.
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This is, in a nutshell, the whole raison d’etre of #SundaySentence
"But it is precisely by thus quoting an isolated line that one multiplies its power of attraction tenfold."
#SundaySentence from The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright triumphofthenow.com/2015/10/22/t...
#SundaySentence from The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright triumphofthenow.com/2015/10/22/t...
The Guermantes Way (À la recherche du temps perdu 3) by Marcel Proust
I’m caffeinated up to the eyeballs and on holiday in the backwoods of Finland, and have spent the last two days alternating between staring out of a cabin’s window at the empty wilderness of a Scan…
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October 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This is, in a nutshell, the whole raison d’etre of #SundaySentence
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AHHHHH! These books creeped me out! (compliment)
10 Books Featuring Devils, Doppelgängers, Ghosts, and Creepy Dolls - Electric Literature
Eerie entities and speculative ideas help these novels and stories articulate deeply human truths
buff.ly
October 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
AHHHHH! These books creeped me out! (compliment)
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"Childhood is a darkened, fantasy-filled theater in which, after a long or short while, the houselights are turned on, and the brightness makes you blink, and then you see the candy wrappers under the seats and the lines for the bathrooms." Ian Frazier, THE SNAKES THAT ATE FLORIDA #sundaysentence
October 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
"Childhood is a darkened, fantasy-filled theater in which, after a long or short while, the houselights are turned on, and the brightness makes you blink, and then you see the candy wrappers under the seats and the lines for the bathrooms." Ian Frazier, THE SNAKES THAT ATE FLORIDA #sundaysentence
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So go ahead, pray to whichever god
Makes you the most happy
Me? I'll take that chevron of geese
Just now, over your left shoulder
Crossing in front of the moon.
#SundaySentence from "We All Have Our Gods" by Charles Finn
#todayspoem
What was YOUR favorite sentence of the week? Share with us!
Makes you the most happy
Me? I'll take that chevron of geese
Just now, over your left shoulder
Crossing in front of the moon.
#SundaySentence from "We All Have Our Gods" by Charles Finn
#todayspoem
What was YOUR favorite sentence of the week? Share with us!
October 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
So go ahead, pray to whichever god
Makes you the most happy
Me? I'll take that chevron of geese
Just now, over your left shoulder
Crossing in front of the moon.
#SundaySentence from "We All Have Our Gods" by Charles Finn
#todayspoem
What was YOUR favorite sentence of the week? Share with us!
Makes you the most happy
Me? I'll take that chevron of geese
Just now, over your left shoulder
Crossing in front of the moon.
#SundaySentence from "We All Have Our Gods" by Charles Finn
#todayspoem
What was YOUR favorite sentence of the week? Share with us!
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He could be so reasonable, that Zen acceptance of everything. It was the trait of his she liked the least. #sundaysentence
#evensong
#stewartonan
@groveatlantic.bsky.social
#evensong
#stewartonan
@groveatlantic.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
He could be so reasonable, that Zen acceptance of everything. It was the trait of his she liked the least. #sundaysentence
#evensong
#stewartonan
@groveatlantic.bsky.social
#evensong
#stewartonan
@groveatlantic.bsky.social
I think being a teenager is about hiding all your quirks and contorting yourself to fit in and impress people, and being an adult is about re-finding who you were when you were eight years old.
#SundaySentence
We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin
#SundaySentence
We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin
October 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I think being a teenager is about hiding all your quirks and contorting yourself to fit in and impress people, and being an adult is about re-finding who you were when you were eight years old.
#SundaySentence
We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin
#SundaySentence
We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin
So grateful WaPo has reminded us that no one ever dies unless they’ve given advance notice that allows others to travel and gather around them. We can all stop looking both ways before we cross the street.
More than 15 million people 55 or older don’t have a spouse or biological children; nearly 2 million have no family members at all.
Who will be there for these solo agers as their lives draw to a close? How many of them will die alone?
Who will be there for these solo agers as their lives draw to a close? How many of them will die alone?
An age-old fear grows more common: ‘I’m going to die alone’
As families fracture, people are living longer and are more likely to find themselves without close relatives or friends at the end of their lives.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
So grateful WaPo has reminded us that no one ever dies unless they’ve given advance notice that allows others to travel and gather around them. We can all stop looking both ways before we cross the street.
This is the best rabbit hole I could possibly fall into on a grey Canadian Thanksgiving weekend (I’m thankful for non-billionaire run media platforms). I love how @slate.com will binge on a topic, and now I’ve got this fantastic #StevieWonder playlist to peel potatoes to. Thanks, @nitishpahwa.com!
this was before my time but Slate once did a whole tribute week to Stevie Wonder with delightful entries from @aishaharris.bsky.social, @matoswk.bsky.social, @samadams.bsky.social, @thehighsign.bsky.social, and @sethstevenson.bsky.social among many others slate.com/culture/wond...
October 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This is the best rabbit hole I could possibly fall into on a grey Canadian Thanksgiving weekend (I’m thankful for non-billionaire run media platforms). I love how @slate.com will binge on a topic, and now I’ve got this fantastic #StevieWonder playlist to peel potatoes to. Thanks, @nitishpahwa.com!
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"Star-craving mad: so mad as to want
to devour the stars. Gripped by a single
fixation, an insuperable sidereal tongue-lust."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Stark, raving by Andreae Callanan (2025 Opaat Press / @thisisannick.bsky.social) annickmacaskill.com/2025/09/10/s...
to devour the stars. Gripped by a single
fixation, an insuperable sidereal tongue-lust."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Stark, raving by Andreae Callanan (2025 Opaat Press / @thisisannick.bsky.social) annickmacaskill.com/2025/09/10/s...
October 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"Star-craving mad: so mad as to want
to devour the stars. Gripped by a single
fixation, an insuperable sidereal tongue-lust."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Stark, raving by Andreae Callanan (2025 Opaat Press / @thisisannick.bsky.social) annickmacaskill.com/2025/09/10/s...
to devour the stars. Gripped by a single
fixation, an insuperable sidereal tongue-lust."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Stark, raving by Andreae Callanan (2025 Opaat Press / @thisisannick.bsky.social) annickmacaskill.com/2025/09/10/s...
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#SundaySentence
~Lisel Mueller
found in the first few pages of The Paper Birds, a novel by Jeanette Lynes
~Lisel Mueller
found in the first few pages of The Paper Birds, a novel by Jeanette Lynes
October 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
#SundaySentence
~Lisel Mueller
found in the first few pages of The Paper Birds, a novel by Jeanette Lynes
~Lisel Mueller
found in the first few pages of The Paper Birds, a novel by Jeanette Lynes
Rather than feel like a powerless baby bird, I chose to believe, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that I was invulnerable and capable of anything.
#SundaySentence from We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin.
#BookSky💙📚
#SundaySentence from We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin.
#BookSky💙📚
October 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Rather than feel like a powerless baby bird, I chose to believe, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that I was invulnerable and capable of anything.
#SundaySentence from We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin.
#BookSky💙📚
#SundaySentence from We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin.
#BookSky💙📚