Helen Simonson

Author. Reluctantly leaving Twitter. Can’t be aligned with cartoon Nazis. Find me on Facebook and Instagram.

[Helen Simonson @Simonsonhelen]

@rachkmc Is that with this Helen Simonson? Well that would be way more exciting than the butter pies for which I always love coming to Canada!

[Helen Simonson @Simonsonhelen]

@angryalgonquin Saw someone else leaving for ‘blue sky‘ and feared for his state of mind. Glad to find it’s a social media thing! Send a code to my Facebook account please!

[Helen Simonson @Simonsonhelen]

Leaving Twitter. Find me on Instagram and Facebook (let’s see if that Threads thing ever gets going too!). I try to love and understand everyone but I can‘t hang out with Elon and his cartoon Nazi friends anymore.

[Helen Simonson @Simonsonhelen]

Me too Ron. See you on Insta, Facebook and Threads.

[Helen Simonson @Simonsonhelen]

@BCDreyer Love your posts. Leaving Twitter. See you on Instagram and Facebook I hope.

[Helen Simonson @Simonsonhelen]

I know it feels shallow to be worrying about trees right now but it seems like a metaphor for a merciless world. We have all lost our minds… https://t.co/ZyKA3ToMVc

[Helen Simonson @Simonsonhelen]

This does not really count as ‘gift wrap’ folks. I’d pay extra for fancy. Or maybe just a ribbon and store branded sticker? Bricks and mortar independent shops - we support you, but give us back some love. Sigh!

[Helen Simonson @Simonsonhelen]

@ajdewerd @AlcovePress @crookedlanebks @kate_mckean @holly_ingraham Congrats Andrea. So happy for you.

[Helen Simonson @Simonsonhelen]

PLEASE feel free to supervise what your children read but it’s a free country so please don’t take the freedom of books from others. Free libraries are the very soul of civilization. No kid was ever harmed by reading a book. This is insanity. @nytimes. https://t.co/ethGJVI4OY

[Helen Simonson @Simonsonhelen]

Tweeting this because a Conservative MP used the word ‘resile’ which is a completely new word to me. Happy days! Not that it makes losing the planet any easier! https://t.co/4ylXosOZ0f

[Helen Simonson @Simonsonhelen]

‘Sigh…no Shakespeare for your schools then, @GregAbbott_TX ?? No Lolita, no Handmaids’ Tale, no Beloved? No written sex…just everything on TV, video and internet? Oh, and guns…https://t.co/xd2eirGY0R

[Helen Simonson @Simonsonhelen]

@atlrml @randomhouse Sorry it took me so long, Rhani. My usual slow and reflective style plus Covid and so on...

[Helen Simonson @Simonsonhelen]

My new novel, out May 2024, just went live for preorders through your local bookshop and all internet sources. Thanks ⁦⁦@randomhouse⁩ for the great cover!

[Helen Simonson @Simonsonhelen]

Can’t wait to see Enright in person at Brooklyn’s @Center4Fiction on Sep 27th. I’m a total fan!

[London Review of Books @LRB]

‘Some dull part of my brain had been woken by the realisation that I was alive, a fact that was constantly announcing itself, I am alive I am alive.’

Anne Enright on walking through lockdown:
https://t.co/f7MZp2XhOj

[Marco Cavazzini @CavazziniM]

@Simonsonhelen thank you. I am reading aloud Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand to my mom (87 years old, practically a child) these days, and every time I lift my eyes from the pages you have written, I see her smile. And they are priceless memories that I will cherish forever.

[Helen Simonson @Simonsonhelen]

Fool me once. Was not fooled by this menu of jar food in Toulouse airport. Hubby says baby food jars were a diet fad inthe seventies! What’s with the jars, France?

[Helen Simonson @Simonsonhelen]

@coastalwrite Collioure. Fishing village visited by Picasso and Matisse. Beyond picturesque!

[Helen Simonson @Simonsonhelen]

When you think your French is better than it is -again! Sorta missed the word ‘jar’ when ordering fancy room service snacks. Now eating cold soup but the view is amazing.

[Laurel Ann | Austenprose.com @Austenprose]

Wishing I had a tower to write in!!!

[Helen Simonson @Simonsonhelen]

Lahaina is our Maui place. Devastating to see it gone. All we can do now as visitors is donate and stay away. Heartbreaking.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It’s tough to see some of the images coming out of Hawai’i — a place that’s so special to so many of us. Michelle and I are thinking of everyone who has lost a loved one, or whose life has been turned upside down.

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