Shawn Breathes Books
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![[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of calamari à l'armoricaine and the words Uncle also claims to be the custodian of the time-honored recipe for calamari à l'armoricaine, a recipe that consists of frozen squid rings vaguely cooked in half a gallon of cheap red wine seasoned only with a pinch of pepper, a dish, I should add, reserved for special occasions, for honored guests, for first-time visitors, because Uncle likes to give all newcomers a lavish welcome, at least those who are too polite to refuse what they're so beamingly being offered, and when we suggest to Uncle that he add some garlic, and go a little lighter on the red wine, and have a look at the sell-by date on the squid, and also take a shower, just a little more often, a real shower, not just a swipe with a wet washcloth, no, a real cleaning from top to bottom, Uncle says simply no, he doesn't want to, he's sticking to his father's recipe.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:diyyoff3hc4pakhill6zgn4l/bafkreicardznbtr25fn6knqd7wvtn4asttxh32fib6zeyhsfvluyfbfjt4@jpeg)
![[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of Shawn, and the words Friday Reads: Men and their unmoorings]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:diyyoff3hc4pakhill6zgn4l/bafkreiexaak3pcfaghaenlrljuu23fa64iozdpygjsmr7f5y6yy5zbvm4i@jpeg)
![[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of Virginia Evans, the cover of her novel The Correspondent, and the words Writing the self home: A chat with Virginia Evans about her stirring novel, The Correspondent]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:diyyoff3hc4pakhill6zgn4l/bafkreifheoyoo2py5g5gpruw2jwq66onunsnsccrhhuge6zhy7c6izhom4@jpeg)
![[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of Shawn, James, Dorian, and Shawn and the words Chris, Dorian, James, and Shawn chat about Edith Wharton’s Old New York]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:diyyoff3hc4pakhill6zgn4l/bafkreihg47azdreoqkpzpdxvuuj4eceku2mkfnmhpvnc3kwikiheyplrya@jpeg)
![[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of Shawn, and the words Friday Reads: Eastern European-ish, transnational, and oh-so-queer]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:diyyoff3hc4pakhill6zgn4l/bafkreibwpmcndws4bye6xphreniob4bn5oevuzrnqh4l7b63elo5mc4dxu@jpeg)
![[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of Bradley Somer, the book cover of We Are All Of Us Left Behind, and the words Queer Canadian novelist Bradley Somer’s new novel, We Are All Of Us Left Behind – the Saskatoon Book Launch at McNally Robinson's]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:diyyoff3hc4pakhill6zgn4l/bafkreiek474u4y7dgm6uhovkez5w243liiuvon2j7f6y66prmxksjp722m@jpeg)
![[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of Shawn, and the words Friday Reads: Love and Money]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:diyyoff3hc4pakhill6zgn4l/bafkreiga7habwrus36vf3uzdnavvjcrkghyclombfduwqmx7tqhibjuq2u@jpeg)
![[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of an elderly man sitting on the edge of bed and the words ‘Whoops-a-daisy,' he said, smiling again to show he was all right, and stuck one of his dreadful old feet with its Walt Disney ogre's toenails almost into her face as she knelt recovering his travelling clock, his pills, his spilled water-carafe, his spectacles, his address book that he kept up to date by crossing off his friends as they died, his saucer that he'd used for grape pips, a couple of chessmen he'd been mending and a plastic heart-shaped box in which he kept alternate rows of false teeth at night.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:diyyoff3hc4pakhill6zgn4l/bafkreih2sboazbpfql4xbwgbh3h65bpl6l57v6ecx5poknykfvfmyafqeq@jpeg)
![[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of Shawn, and the words Friday Reads: Some sucked, some weren’t for me, and some sucked me right in]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:diyyoff3hc4pakhill6zgn4l/bafkreibdznvhwtquxyg72uspaw6m7jtyoiswgmmciq5t4kpftpazvavvii@jpeg)
![[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of Shawn, and the words Nuanced spinsters and other fickle folk: A review of E.H. Young's 1922 novel, The Misses Mallett]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:diyyoff3hc4pakhill6zgn4l/bafkreigfqfrmd3g36gbqllcjtbrv6u24kzrg7w4tho3v3zmezqwkjf4nie@jpeg)
![[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of Shawn, and the words Friday Reads: 'The world is full of wonder – pay attention']](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:diyyoff3hc4pakhill6zgn4l/bafkreiguylcio6tjcaalshwg7x3ezriunm6kp53wfusl424wn4wnjfnbju@jpeg)
