#Penelope Fitzgerald

[idrislibrary]

[writerly-ramblings]

Books Read in July:

1). Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years (Heidi Julavits)

2). Bluets (Maggie Nelson)

3). Essays in Love: A Novel (Alain de Botton)

4). The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Maggie Nelson)

5). Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Alexa Hagerty)

6). Margot (Wendell Steavenson)

7). An Alphabet for Gourmets (M.F.K. Fisher)

8). My Documents (Alejandro Zambra)

9). Planet of Clay (Samar Yazbek)

10). The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays (Kelly McMasters)

11). Offshore (Penelope Fitzgerald)

12). Encounter (Milan Kundera)

13). Housekeeping (Marilynne Robinson)

14). Gingerbread (Helen Oyeyemi)

15). A Small Place (Jamaica Kincaid)

16). Where I Was From (Joan Didion)

[bonnielunkas]

finished with the rewrite ref sheets!!

surprise!! the phone killed almost a dozen children <3

i was debating on letting people know if rodger was purple guy and eventually i just said fuck it, we're gonna be upfront about it

[thelibraryiscool]

"A storm always seems a strange thing in a great city, where there are so many immoveables. In front of the tall rigid buildings the flying riff-raff of leaves and paper seemed ominous, as though they were escaping in good time. Presently, larger things were driven along, cardboard boxes, branches, and tiles. Bicycles, left propped up, fell flat. You could hear glass smashing, and now pieces of broken glass were added to the missiles which the wind flung along the scoured pavement. The Embankment, swept clean, was deserted. People came out of the Underground and, leaning at odd angles to meet the wind, hurried home from work by the inner streets."

--Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore

[lifewithaview]

The Bookshop (2017)

England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy). As Florence's obstacles amass and bear suspicious signs of a local power struggle, she is forced to ask: is there a place for a bookshop in a town that may not want one? Based on Penelope Fitzgerald's acclaimed novel and directed by Isabel Coixet (Learning to Drive), The Bookshop is an elegant yet incisive rendering of personal resolve, tested in the battle for the soul of a community.

"Old age is not the same thing as historical interest. Otherwise you and I would be far more interesting than we are."

[aychgilder]

His real motive was one of the strongest known to humanity, the need to torment himself.

- Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower

I looked up the last quote I posted: July 2014. I have a few saved up.

[ramblingss]

Whatever you do, gentlemen, don’t, as scientists, believe you are anything extraordinary. Don’t allow yourself for a moment to feel anything like contempt for those whose minds work differently from your own. Their minds in fact don’t work differently from your own. Don’t tell yourself that their ideas are commonplace. It’s very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren’t by any means always welcome, but at least one can’t be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Penelope Fitzgerald, The Gate of Angels

[vanessasisomonter]

LIBRO 47 - LA LIBRERÍA - PENELOPE FITZGERALD

25 de noviembre 2023 -La librería, publicada en inglés con el título original The Bookshop, es una novela de Penelope Fitzgerald. El libro estuvo nominado para el Premio Booker, ​ distinción que ganó en 1979 con su novela A la deriva, titulada originalmen

Novela finalista del Booker Prize, «La librería» es una delicada aventura tragicómica, una obra maestra de la entomología librera. Florence Green vive en un minúsculo pueblo costero de Suffolk que en 1959 está literalmente apartado del mundo, y que se caracteriza justamente por «lo que no tiene». Florence decide abrir una pequeña librería, que será la primera del pueblo. Adquiere así un edificio…

[blogthefiresidechats]

"The Bookshop" by Penelope Fitzgerald

Well, I finished reading this last night and thought I would share. I loved Florence Green in this book. She was a character with courage………she had enough gumption to open up a bookshop where she did, despite the fact that she was met with some resistance. I also liked Mr. Brundish because he seemed to be the only person who was somewhat supportive of her endeavor to open a bookshop, even though…

[a-rat-in-toms-house]

If any of you are wondering, I’m thinking Leon as Raven, Matthew as Florence? But then where does Connor go? Perhaps Connor as Florence, and Matthew as Christine Gipping’s parent? I forget her parents names but you get the gist

Heavily considering writing a mcmattdrai fic based on the bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald… the implications of this is that I am an English major stereotype. And also that I feel like a lit nerd double. Literature nerd x2. Literature nerd squared.

[deobispresent]

all that swagger and bravado going up in flames the moment Penelope called Colin kind— romancing Mr. Bridgerton has never been easier.

[artunderwraps]

Why are three millennia year old poems so epic

[writerly-ramblings]

“‘I don’t think you should take everything Dr Matthews says on trust,’ said Fred with an effort. ‘He’s a writer of fiction, as of course you know.’

‘Yes,’ said Professor Flowerdew doubtfully. ‘He must find it very confusing.’”

[bonnielunkas]

back at it w some more rewrite art!! this time the phone dude, jacob scott, and some minigame-y sprites for everyone!! ( including characters i have yet to make refs for, yippee!! )

( for reference ; rodger is phone guy!! penelope and ceaser are two of jeremy and fritz's coworkers!! penelope is also jeremy's big sister :] )

[thelibraryiscool]

"The body must either repair itself or stop functioning, but that is not true of the emotions, and particularly of Willis’s emotions. He had come to doubt the value of all new beginnings and to put his trust in not much more than the art of hanging together."

--Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore

[billblok]

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