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devosopmaandag · 1 year ago

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Cáit en Ana, Jessica en Zazie

Afgelopen week kwamen twee meisjes op mijn pad. Het eerste meisje, Cáit, was Iers en een jaar of tien, het tweede meisje is Engels en een paar jaar ouder. Haar naam is Jessica Vye. Ik schrijf over Cáit in de verleden tijd omdat ze alweer verdwenen is en ik slechts herinneringen heb aan haar. De allereerste keer dat ik haar zag, had ze zich verstopt in het hoge gras, opgekruld als een slapend hondje. Haar zussen riepen haar de hele tijd, maar ze hield zich heel lang stil. Jessica heb ik hier vlakbij me. Ze draagt een lichtgrijze jurk met lange mouwen en een opstaand kraagje dat slordig openvalt. Haar wat vlassige blonde haar is opgestoken en ze kijkt starend in de verte. Haar lippen zijn als die van een vrouw. Daar klopt helemaal niets van. De Jessica die ik voor ogen heb heeft donker haar en is nog een echt meisje, maar wel een met een lichaam waarvan de proporties niet langer kloppen. Zwijgen doet ze nooit. Als ze alleen is, kletst ze de hele tijd door in haar hoofd. Om Cáit, die de zomer doorbrengt bij een echtpaar dat een kind verloor, heb ik een aantal keren moeten huilen in de bioscoop*, om Jessica heb ik tijdens het lezen** vaak moeten lachen, al vond ik haar soms ook wat vermoeiend. Maar aan het einde van het boek liet ik ook om haar bijna een traan.

Cáit bracht een ander zwijgend meisje in herinnering, de kleine Ána in de film 'Cria Cuervos', een film van Carlos Saura uit de jaren zeventig. Ik herinner me vooral haar grote donkere ogen en haar eenzaamheid in een kil huis. Ze droeg stilte als een schaduw om zich heen. Jessica riep Zazie in herinnering, uit de roman 'Zazie in de metro' van Raymond Queneau. Zazie is even duizelingwekkend levendig als Jessica. Beiden houden ervan om te spelen met de taal, niet omdat ze zich daarvan bewust zijn, maar omdat ze spelen met alles wat ze zien en meemaken. Hun geesten werken heel snel en daarmee zorgen ze vaak voor vrolijke verwarring. Cáit en Ana, en Jessica en Zazie staan voor twee soorten meisjes: de stille en de drukke, de observerende en de initiërende. Het lijkt dat vooral meisjes zich goed lenen voor deze stereotypen in film en literatuur. Dat beweer ik natuurlijk omdat ik zelf een meisje ben. Met jongens lukt dat ook.

Ik herinner me dat we in de zesde klas van de lagere school gezamenlijk een boek lazen over twee meisjes. De ene was klein, druk en donker, de ander was langer, stil en blond. 'Precies jullie', zei de onderwijzer, en wees naar Jeannette en mij. Dat vond ik helemaal niet leuk. Ik herinner me dat ik stiekem dacht: ik wou dat ik de stille was, want dat is veel interessanter. Wat meisjes soms denken!

*'The Quiet girl' | regie: Colm Bairéad | gebaseerd op 'Foster' van Claire Keegan | de rol van Cáit: Catherine Clinch | Ierland 2022

**'Ver van Verona' | Jane Gardam | vertaling: Gerda Baardman en Kitty Pouwels | uitgeverij Cossee 2020 | oorspronkelijke verschijning 1971

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hellosallylovette · 2 months ago

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Every book I’ve ever read (not including short stories or comics, not necessarily a recommendation list)

1. Mosquitoland by David Arnold

2. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

4. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

5. The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks

6. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

7. The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

8. Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor

9. The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

10. The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall

11. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

12. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

13. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites by Zac Brewer

14. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Ninth Grade Slays by Zac Brewer

15. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Tenth Grade Bleeds by Zac Brewer

16. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eleventh Grade Burns by Zac Brewer

17. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Twelfth Grade Kills by Zac Brewer

18. No Flying in the House by Betty Brock

19. Wish by Alexandra Bullen

20. Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman

21. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll

22. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Caroll

23. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

24. The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary

25. Little Bee by Chris Cleave

26. Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements

27. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

28. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

29. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

30. Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton

31. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

32. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

33. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

34. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupêry

35. No and Me by Delphine de Vigan

36. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

37. The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo

38. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

39. The Brotherhood of the Conch: The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming by Chitra Banarjee Divakaruni

40. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

41. The Kind of Friends We Used to Be by Frances O’Rourke Dowell

42. Where I’d Like to Be by Frances O’Roark Dowell

43. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan

44. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

45. Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic

46. Who Is Stealing the Twelve Days of Christmas? by Martha Freeman

47. Coraline by Neil Gaiman

48. Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman

49. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

50. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

51. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Green

52. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

53. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

54. Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Peterson Haddix

55. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

56. Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

57. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

58. How to Steal a Car by Pete Hautman

59. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

60. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

61. Brooklyn Bridge by Karen Hesse

62. Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

63. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson-Burnett

64. The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson-Burnett

65. Lemonade Mouth by Mark Peter Hughes

66. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

67. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

68. The First Last Part by Angela Johnson

69. Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones

70. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

71. The Shining by Stephen King

72. Carrie by Stephen King

73. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

74. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

75. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

76. Fairy Tale: A True Story by Monica Kulling

77. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

78. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

79. The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis

80. The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

81. Every Day by David Leviathan

82. Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg by Gail Carson Levine

83. Fairest by Gail Carson Levine

84. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

85. The Call of the Wild by Jack London

86. The Giver by Lois Lowry

87. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

88. Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev

89. Perchance to Dream by Lisa Mantchev

90. Daniel’s Story by Carol Matas

91. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

92. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

93. The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne

94. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

95. Girls Rule by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

96. The New York Grimpendium by J.W. Ocker

97. 1984 by George Orwell

98. Animal Farm by George Orwell

99. Willa by Heart by Coleen Murtagh Paratore

100. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

101. Witch and Wizard: The Gift by James Patterson

102. Witch and Wizard by James Patterson and Cate Tiernan

103. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

104. Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce

105. Ripper by Stefan Petrucha

106. Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

107. Anthem by Ayn Rand

108. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

109. Emily the Strange: Lost, Dark, and Bored by Rob Reger

110. Across the Universe by Beth Revis

111. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

112. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

113. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

114. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan

115. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

116. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

117. The Kane Chronicles: The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan

118. The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan

119. Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan

120. Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

121. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

122. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

123. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

124. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

125. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

126. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

127. The Tales of Beadle the Bard by J.K. Rowling

128. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

129. The Teashop Girls by Laura Schaefer

130. Princess From Another Planet by Mindy Schanback

131. It’s Raining Cupcakes by Lisa Schroeder

132. Pretty Little Liars: Book One by Sara Shepard

133. The War with Grandpa by Robert Kimmel Smith

134. Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli

135. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

136. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

137. Dracula by Bram Stoker

138. Museum of Thieves by Lian Tanner

139. Killer Pizza by Greg Taylor

140. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

141. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente

142. It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

143. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

144. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

145. Ghost Hotel by Lawrence Weinberg

146. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

147. Who Censored Roger Rabbit by Gary K. Wolf

148. The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic by Allan Wolf

149. Christina’s Ghost by Betty Ren Wright

150. The Gates of Evangeline by Hester Young

151. Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks (12/9/16)

152. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (12/27/16)

153. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2/7/17)

154. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (4/27/17)

155. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (5/15/2017)

156. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (1/04/18)

157. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (1/10/18)

158. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (3/9/18)

159. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (11/1/2018)

160. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (11/14/2018)

161. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (2/14/2019)

162. Forrest Gump by Winston Groom (3/6/19)

163. The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara (3/27/19)

164. Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden (4/4/19)

165. Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck (4/9/19)

166. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (4/13/19)

167. We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach (4/17/19)

168. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (7/12/19)

169. Matilda by Roald Dahl (8/7/19)

170. �� The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens (8/8/19)

171. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (8/21/19)

172. The Tea Girl from Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See (8/24/19)

173. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron (9/13/19)

174. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (9/26/19)

175. The Quiet American by Graham Greene (10/22/19)

176. The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1/2/20)

177. The Fuck-Up by Arthur Nersesian (1/30/20)

178. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (3/17/20)

179. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (7/26/20)

180. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne by Ann Radcliffe (9/13/20)

181. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (9/29/20)

182. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (11/15/20)

183. If You Follow Me by Malena Watrous (12/26/20)

184. My Ántonia by Willa Cather (1/9/21)

185. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1/13/21)

186. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (1/17/21)

187. Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao (1/28/21)

188. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (2/1/21)

189. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (2/14/21)

190. American Son by Brian Ascalon Roley (2/22/21)

191. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (2/18/21)

192. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (4/14/21)

193. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (4/20/21)

194. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (5/4/21)

195. The Little Friend by Donna Tartt (7/7/21)

196. Half-Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls (11/29/21)

197. The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls (12/13/21)

198. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (7/22/22)

199. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brönte (9/2/22)

200. Persuasion by Jane Austen (10/14/22)

201. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (10/22/22)

202. King Lear by William Shakespeare (10/28/22)

203. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (11/3/22)

204. The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (11/5/22)

205. The Awakening by Kate Chopin (11/19/22)

206. No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai (11/27/22)

207. Rebecca by Daphne Du Marier (12/2/22)

208. Sense and Sensibility (12/23/22)

209. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1/13/23)

210. The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1/18/23)

211. Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare (1/26/23)

212. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass (1/31/23)

213. Othello by William Shakespeare (2/5/23)

214. Girl, Interrupted by Susana Kaysen (2/27/23)

215. Hag-seed by Margaret Atwood (3/2/23)

216. Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction by Robert J. C. Young (3/5/23)

217. Cuban Refugees: Cuban Roots, American Freedoms by Deborah Kent (3/21/23)

218. Frida Kahlo by Hettie Judah (4/5/23)

219. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (4/15/23)

220. Beloved by Toni Morrison (5/28/23)

221. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (6/12/23)

222. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (6/30/23)

223. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (7/21/23)

224. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (7/24/23)

225. The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang (7/28/23)

226. Never Broken: Songs are Only Half the Story by Jewel (8/6/23)

227. A Therapeutic Atlas by The School of Life (8/18/23)

228. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (8/22/23)

229. The Vietnam War, 1945–1975 by New-York Historical Society (8/23/23)

230. White Fang by Jack London (8/30/23)

231. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (8/31/23)

232. Austral by Carlos Fonseca (10/2/23)

233. The Dreamkeepers by Gloria Ladson-Billings (10/4/23)

234. Emma by Jane Austen (10/13/23)

235. The Monk by Matthew Lewis (11/3/23)

236. Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett 2/11/24

237. Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya 3/5/24

238. Never Grow Up by Jackie Chan with Zhu Mo 3/14/24

239. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 3/27/24

240. The Third Wedding Wreath by Costas Taktsis 4/25/24

241. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 7/3/24

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shadowlineswriting · 1 year ago

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And it was...

The Man in the Wooden Hat, by Jane Gardam.

The novel itself does live up to its description and, all told, I didn't hate the book. But I did not enjoy my book date experience for three reasons.

First, this book is a sequel. There should be a rule against using a sequel in a date with a book, because I opened it to learn I couldn't even read the darn book yet because I had to find the first one. I was so annoyed by this that I didn't actually bother to read the first book. I just found a summary of it online and jumped into The Man in the Wooden Hat, which is book #2. Rude.

Second, I'm not sure what I was supposed to take from this novel. Perhaps it makes more sense if you read the first book, but I missed the "why" of this entire story. It IS about a marriage and it IS about two expatriates who spend time in Hong Kong. But...well, that's it, really. That's the book. I don't even know why it's called The man in the Wooden Hat.

Third, I think this was incorrectly categorized. I suppose it was considered historical fiction because it took place prior to 2023, but if anything this felt more like realistic fiction to me, because I could see this being equally as applicable to a man and woman today. Historical fiction to me, I guess, is when it takes place far enough back that it doesn't read like real life.

These are all preferences, of course, but there you go. Not exactly the high note I hoped to end the 2.25-year book challenge on, but all told, not as bad as it could have been.

Anyway. I'm off now to write my own novel. Thanks for hanging in there all this time!

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quoteoftheweekblog · 2 years ago

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK 20/3/23 - RUTH CLARK ‘ … spring had come again.’ (Clark, 1943, p.258).

Clark, R. (1943 [1942] ) ‘Jenny Spring’. Illustrated by Isobel Moreton-Sale. London: Dent. *****

ON THE VERNAL EQUINOX AFTER THE SUNRISE IN BASINGSTOKE

AT 6.10.

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ALL SEASONS

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SEE ALSO

‘The meal was happy and peaceful … ‘ (Clark, 1943, p.97).

IT WAS DELICIOUS

‘ “Bless my pig’s trotters!” ‘ (Clark, 1943, p.164).

(RICK STEIN’S BUTTERFLIED LAMB WITH HERBY LEMON AND PAPRIKA MARINADE …

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/butterflied_lamb_with_08901 )

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TO MY FRIEND FOR REBOOTING MY READING WITH THE LOAN OF THIS BOOK DURING DIRE TIMES MARCH 2023

AND THANKS AGAIN

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AND TO MY DAUGHTER FOR THE CARD AND FLOWERS

RESULT!

AND CAKE

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RESULT!!!!

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK 2011 - 2022

11 EPIC YEARS

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writerly-ramblings · 4 years ago

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Books Read in March:

1). Eat Up (Ruby Tandoh)

2). Flèche (Mary Jean Chan)

3). The Blue Flower (Penelope Fitzgerald)

4). Big Summer (Jennifer Weiner)

5). Virginia Woolf’s Nose (Hermione Lee)

6). Jane and Prudence (Barbara Pym)

7). More Home Cooking (Laurie Colwin)

8). God on the Rocks (Jane Gardam)

9). Heartburn (Nora Ephron)

#my literary life #adult booklr #booklist #booklr #ruby tandoh #mary jean chan #penelope fitzgerald #jennifer weiner #hermione lee #barbara pym #laurie colwin #jane gardam #nora ephron #(one book short - so I shall have to make it up this month)

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biboocat · 4 years ago

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Loved Faith Fox! An amazing cast of colorful characters, endearing, and so funny. Madeleine is a riot! One of my favorites by Jane Gardam.

#jane gardam #british fiction #book review

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amaliathereader · 8 months ago

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#The Stories #Jane Gardam #Short Stories #British Literature #Britain #Anthologies #uk #reading #book review #bookworm #bookworld #readers of tumblr #book tumblr #love books #bookish life #bookish love

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fandomsbecomeme · 4 years ago

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I am

Because of the House of Niccolo series by Dorothy Dunnett. She keeps breaking my heart but I'm in love with Claes.

But he's so...awful too. Dangerous. He and the lead character Jessica in Jane Gardam's A Long Way from Verona need to meet and torture themselves together.

#dorothy dunnett #house of Niccolo #historical fiction #belgium #bruges #claes #jane gardam #a long way from verona

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words-not-silence · 5 years ago

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#Jane Gardam #A Long Way From Verona #quote #book #literature #literary quote #english #english literature #school #life #read #reading

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evilpdf · 5 years ago

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Jane Gardam, The Flight of the Maidens (2000)

#fiction #jane gardam #the flight of the maidens #quotes

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wellconstructedsentences · 5 years ago

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The point is this—in three parts. Tripartite. Viz:

1. I am not quite normal.

2. I am not very popular.

3. I am able to tell what people are thinking.

And I might add

4. I am terribly bad at keeping quiet when I have something on my mind

because

5. I ABSOLUTELY ALWAYS AND INVARIABLY TELL THE TRUTH.

A Long Way from Verona by Jane Gardam

#a long way from verona #jane gardam

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK 9/1/23 - FAY WELDON

‘Glitter-glitter. Are those my eyes? They’re so bright they light up the room.’ (Weldon, 1984, p.60).

REFERENCE

Weldon, F. (1984 [1983] ) ‘The life and loves of a she devil’. Amazon.com [E-book]. Available at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Loves-She-Devil-ebook/dp/B003LPV58W (Accessed 9 January 2023).

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ON SUNDAY I WAS 6 ******* 3

(DAVID BOWIE WOULD HAVE BEEN 76 AND ELVIS PRESLEY WOULD HAVE BEEN 88)

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HOW OLD?

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