Dora Dueck
@doradueck.bsky.social
Writer. Reader. Four books of fiction, but latest, "Return Stroke" is essays and memoir. A sixth book, a collection of short stories, coming next year. She/her.
I live in British Columbia, Canada.
Website and occasional blog: doradueck.com .
I live in British Columbia, Canada.
Website and occasional blog: doradueck.com .
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We love this reader review . . . and encourage you to ask for Dora's lovely book of personal essays & memoir, Return Stroke, at your local independent bookseller!
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November 14, 2025 at 4:38 AM
We love this reader review . . . and encourage you to ask for Dora's lovely book of personal essays & memoir, Return Stroke, at your local independent bookseller!
#booksky
#booksky
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November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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October blog post. doradueck.com/2025/10/29/o...
October
October. A lovely month, often resonant of summer, and just as often, it seems, of winter. I spent half the month in Nova Scotia, visiting my daughter and her family, who have moved to the Annapoli…
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October 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
October blog post. doradueck.com/2025/10/29/o...
Reading the Booker shortlist. Two down, four to go! Will I make it by November 10? Probably not, but fun to try!
October 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Reading the Booker shortlist. Two down, four to go! Will I make it by November 10? Probably not, but fun to try!
Every bedside table needs at least one book of poetry on it for a poem or two before bed. This is a good one.
sometimes I forget that I recently published a book of poems and people need to be reminded to buy it
September 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Every bedside table needs at least one book of poetry on it for a poem or two before bed. This is a good one.
Tuning into CNN for a few minutes, re the Trump-Putin news conference, and hear Jake Tapper seeming to promote necessity of giving Ukrainian land to Russia and so on, and I can't watch further. Why is he pushing Trump & Putin talking points? Switch to MSNBC.
August 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Tuning into CNN for a few minutes, re the Trump-Putin news conference, and hear Jake Tapper seeming to promote necessity of giving Ukrainian land to Russia and so on, and I can't watch further. Why is he pushing Trump & Putin talking points? Switch to MSNBC.
I don't understand the U.S. president's ongoing animus toward Canada. No matter every attempt to address his complaints, it continues. Didn't the ambassador recently say we would have a great friendship again? I sincerely want to know: what underlies his unrelenting hostility? Anyone know?
July 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I don't understand the U.S. president's ongoing animus toward Canada. No matter every attempt to address his complaints, it continues. Didn't the ambassador recently say we would have a great friendship again? I sincerely want to know: what underlies his unrelenting hostility? Anyone know?
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Now available: IN SEARCH OF A MENNONITE IMAGINATION -- a must-have resource for every school, university, and public library, for scholars of Mennonite literature and culture, and frankly for anyone and everyone with an interest in Mennonite writers in North America.
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July 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Now available: IN SEARCH OF A MENNONITE IMAGINATION -- a must-have resource for every school, university, and public library, for scholars of Mennonite literature and culture, and frankly for anyone and everyone with an interest in Mennonite writers in North America.
www.cmu.ca/cmu-press
www.cmu.ca/cmu-press
Attended a Mennonite/s Writing conference this weekend. doradueck.com/2025/06/18/t...
Ten Sentences about Mennonite/s Writing Ten
On the flight home from Winnipeg to Vancouver, I scan my notes and discover they’re so pathetically cryptic, they’ll be useless for saying anything meaningful about the conference sessi…
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June 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Attended a Mennonite/s Writing conference this weekend. doradueck.com/2025/06/18/t...
Pleased to be on this list of "impressive Mennonite books".
In celebration of the forthcoming collection of Mennonite literary criticism edited by Robert Zacharias, *In Search of a Mennonite Imagination* CMU Press director @suesorensen.bsky.social wrote an appreciation of Mennonite books for @49thshelf.bsky.social.
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Impressive Mennonite Books · Blog Post · 49th Shelf
(but not too impressive, because they’re humble people)
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June 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Pleased to be on this list of "impressive Mennonite books".
Enjoying the "pomp and circumstance" of the King and Queen's visit to Canada, the Speech from the Throne, etc. Proud of our new prime minister too.
May 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Enjoying the "pomp and circumstance" of the King and Queen's visit to Canada, the Speech from the Throne, etc. Proud of our new prime minister too.
Thinking about arches
I like arches. I've been thinking about them--their sense of invitation and transition. The way they frame what's ahead. I don't mean famous arches like L'Arc de Triomphe in Paris or the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. but simple arches I've encountered. This first one is created…
I like arches. I've been thinking about them--their sense of invitation and transition. The way they frame what's ahead. I don't mean famous arches like L'Arc de Triomphe in Paris or the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. but simple arches I've encountered. This first one is created…
Thinking about arches
I like arches. I've been thinking about them--their sense of invitation and transition. The way they frame what's ahead. I don't mean famous arches like L'Arc de Triomphe in Paris or the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. but simple arches I've encountered. This first one is created by trees meeting over a path to the dike I often walk, and just beyond it is View--of the bay, which is sometimes beautifully spread with water and sometimes, when the tide is low, less beautifully spread with mud.
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May 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Thinking about arches
I like arches. I've been thinking about them--their sense of invitation and transition. The way they frame what's ahead. I don't mean famous arches like L'Arc de Triomphe in Paris or the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. but simple arches I've encountered. This first one is created…
I like arches. I've been thinking about them--their sense of invitation and transition. The way they frame what's ahead. I don't mean famous arches like L'Arc de Triomphe in Paris or the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. but simple arches I've encountered. This first one is created…
This, a short novel in which Nobelist Jon Fosse, in his inimitable style, imagines the birth of child Johannes and the death of old man Johannes. I heard someone who said he wasn't religious call it "holy." Yes. Everything of a life gathers here, the heavy and the light, and it provokes me to awe.
May 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
This, a short novel in which Nobelist Jon Fosse, in his inimitable style, imagines the birth of child Johannes and the death of old man Johannes. I heard someone who said he wasn't religious call it "holy." Yes. Everything of a life gathers here, the heavy and the light, and it provokes me to awe.
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May 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A woman leaves her current life to live in a convent. A plague of mice happens, the bones of a disappeared nun are returned, an unlikely person from her past arrives. Calamities of various kinds, yes, but a profound quietness in this novel. I liked it a lot. (Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker.)
May 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A woman leaves her current life to live in a convent. A plague of mice happens, the bones of a disappeared nun are returned, an unlikely person from her past arrives. Calamities of various kinds, yes, but a profound quietness in this novel. I liked it a lot. (Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker.)
I've got the TV on to hear Carney in the meeting with Trump and latter is going on and on and on and on and it's just exhausting.
May 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I've got the TV on to hear Carney in the meeting with Trump and latter is going on and on and on and on and it's just exhausting.
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Are you coming to
The
Conference??
The
Conference??
April 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Are you coming to
The
Conference??
The
Conference??
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This 💪🏻🍁⤵️ #MarkCarney
#LeadersDebate #Canada
Mr. Poilievre you voted against the gun policy…..You can’t be tough on crime unless you are tough on guns.
#LeadersDebate #Canada
Mr. Poilievre you voted against the gun policy…..You can’t be tough on crime unless you are tough on guns.
April 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This 💪🏻🍁⤵️ #MarkCarney
#LeadersDebate #Canada
Mr. Poilievre you voted against the gun policy…..You can’t be tough on crime unless you are tough on guns.
#LeadersDebate #Canada
Mr. Poilievre you voted against the gun policy…..You can’t be tough on crime unless you are tough on guns.
A ritual procession down 56th
A good funeral, poet/undertaker Thomas Lynch says, gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be. When my husband Helmut died four years ago in the middle of the Covid pandemic, the usual mourning rituals had to be significantly modified.…
A good funeral, poet/undertaker Thomas Lynch says, gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be. When my husband Helmut died four years ago in the middle of the Covid pandemic, the usual mourning rituals had to be significantly modified.…
A ritual procession down 56th
A good funeral, poet/undertaker Thomas Lynch says, gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be. When my husband Helmut died four years ago in the middle of the Covid pandemic, the usual mourning rituals had to be significantly modified. Not all of this was disappointing. It was a privilege for me, for example, to wash his body myself and, with the help of a son, dress him after death.
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April 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
A ritual procession down 56th
A good funeral, poet/undertaker Thomas Lynch says, gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be. When my husband Helmut died four years ago in the middle of the Covid pandemic, the usual mourning rituals had to be significantly modified.…
A good funeral, poet/undertaker Thomas Lynch says, gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be. When my husband Helmut died four years ago in the middle of the Covid pandemic, the usual mourning rituals had to be significantly modified.…
Important conversation with Jason Stanley, expert on fascism, who's "fleeing" to the University of Toronto, at CBC's Front Burner. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
Yale fascism expert on fleeing to Canada | Front Burner | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen
Last week one of the U.S.’s leading scholars and thinkers on fascism announced his intention to leave his country, which he said was “tilting toward authoritarian dictatorship.” Jason Stanley will be ...
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April 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Important conversation with Jason Stanley, expert on fascism, who's "fleeing" to the University of Toronto, at CBC's Front Burner. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
March notes
Besides resolving to appear here monthly in 2025, I had a second New Year's resolution: to read Moby-Dick. Which I have just accomplished, thus plugging one of many holes in my education. It wasn't exactly a page-turner (not to mention there are a lot of pages to turn) so I read it…
Besides resolving to appear here monthly in 2025, I had a second New Year's resolution: to read Moby-Dick. Which I have just accomplished, thus plugging one of many holes in my education. It wasn't exactly a page-turner (not to mention there are a lot of pages to turn) so I read it…
March notes
Besides resolving to appear here monthly in 2025, I had a second New Year's resolution: to read Moby-Dick. Which I have just accomplished, thus plugging one of many holes in my education. It wasn't exactly a page-turner (not to mention there are a lot of pages to turn) so I read it alongside other books, aiming for two chapters a day.
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March 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
March notes
Besides resolving to appear here monthly in 2025, I had a second New Year's resolution: to read Moby-Dick. Which I have just accomplished, thus plugging one of many holes in my education. It wasn't exactly a page-turner (not to mention there are a lot of pages to turn) so I read it…
Besides resolving to appear here monthly in 2025, I had a second New Year's resolution: to read Moby-Dick. Which I have just accomplished, thus plugging one of many holes in my education. It wasn't exactly a page-turner (not to mention there are a lot of pages to turn) so I read it…
I warmly recommend the "What Matters Most" podcasts; they keep me informed and inspired in a big theological tent; I'm only half through this one (will finish on tomorrow's walk) and finding it interesting and wonderful, as are so many of them.
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How Paul Gavrilyuk, born in Kyiv during the end of the Soviet Union, became a Christian, an Orthodox theologian, and produced groundbreaking work on suffering, the spiritual senses, and theosis (deification). He also founded IOTA and Rebuild Ukraine. Powerful.
How Paul Gavrilyuk, born in Kyiv during the end of the Soviet Union, became a Christian, an Orthodox theologian, and produced groundbreaking work on suffering, the spiritual senses, and theosis (deification). He also founded IOTA and Rebuild Ukraine. Powerful.
A Path to Becoming like God: A Conversation with Dr Paul Gavrilyuk
Podcast Episode · What Matters Most · 2025-03-15 · 1h 53m
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March 17, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I warmly recommend the "What Matters Most" podcasts; they keep me informed and inspired in a big theological tent; I'm only half through this one (will finish on tomorrow's walk) and finding it interesting and wonderful, as are so many of them.
Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) by Timothy Snyder open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
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March 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) by Timothy Snyder open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...