#atreegrowsinbrooklyn

[classichollywoodfilm]

#classichollywoodfilm #classichollywood #dorothymcquire #atreegrowsinbrooklyn #summerunderthestars2019 https://www.instagram.com/p/B12EpfXHoCD/?igshid=6yfn044mlzbf

[thegirlbythefirelight]

What makes a book tick? Especially a long one? Betty Smith's magnum opus skins your heart. There's a beautiful melody to it. And the reality of 1920's Brooklyn is a backdrop one is unwilling to shake. Francie Nolan is growing up & takes us along with her through the convoluted truths about her life that she discovers as her world expands. Her father is an alcoholic, her mother a scrubwoman and her brother the apple of her mother's eye. There was much to love about this story- foremost that Francie could claw her way out of that poverty because she was a reader. It helps she has a heart of gold. And she knows precisely what she deserves. The easy friendship between Francie & her brother, her & her father, Johnny Nolan, were particularly endearing. I love strong heroines. I like women doing well, breaking any kind of ceiling, or even just attempting to. Which is why Ms Nolan will stay with me for a long time and someone I will revisit again over the course of my life. All books come to us at the right time. I wish this fine one, with a name as poetic, had come to me sooner. If you liked this, read: •The Goldfinch •The Dutchouse •The Easy Life In Kamusari •The Glass Castle #delhibookstagrammer #delhireaders #atreegrowsinbrooklyn #bettysmith #indianreaders #indianbookstagram #bookstagramindia #booksbrat #booksaboutlife #neverwithoutabook #nevernotreading (at Delhi, India) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClBpKo_SliJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bluehummingbirdhandcrafted]

"The world was hers for the reading." #favoritebook #photooftheday #booklovers #journalmaker #atreegrowsinbrooklyn https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjl93-4skAZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bibliobethblog]

Hello everyone and happy Friday! I’m continuing to get better post COVID and here is part two of my birthday book haul to celebrate! 😁 I’ve never heard of The Guest House before but it arrived in a little pamper box from one of my besties outside IG. The author has been described as “dark, compelling crime writing of the highest order,” so that works for me! The Gallows Pole, Glimpses Of The Unknown and The Driver’s Seat were from my mum. I’m especially excited for The Gallows Pole, I’ve been meaning to read this author for AGES. It’s a true story of resistance that combines poetry, landscape, crime and historical fiction, a rarely told alternative history of the North. Glimpses Of The Unknown - Lost Ghost Stories does what it says on the tin. This book joins my British Library Tales Of The Weird. Now I just have to find time to read them! 😂 The Driver’s Seat is a classic little novella by Muriel Spark. It promises to be an “unnerving journey into the darker recesses of human nature.” Yes please! A Tree Grows In Brooklyn and Little were bought for me by bestie Janel from @keeperofpages A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is the tale of young, idealistic and sensitive Francie and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg. Finally, Little is a wry, macabre and unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud. I’d love to know your thoughts on any of these books or authors. Let’s have a chat in the comments! #bookstagram #bookhaul #birthdaybookhaul #newbooksplease #theguesthouse #davidmark #thegallowspole #benjaminmyers #glimpsesoftheunknown #britishlibrarytalesoftheweird #mikeashley #atreegrowsinbrooklyn #bettysmith #thedriversseat #murielspark #little #edwardcarey #booksasgifts #whataluckygirl #booksonmytbr #ineededthesebooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CdybMHurJM5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[trillsum]

Eddie Kaine x Big Ghost Ltd - A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. On tricolored vinyl , brought to you by @derapwinkel.nl 🐐. Released: October 2021 Favorite Track: Suicide Squad 🔥 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #eddiekain #atreegrowsinbrooklyn #Derapwinkelrecords #Bigghostltd #undergroundhiphop #rap #hiphop #vinyl #vinylrecords #vinyljunkie #vinylgeek #vinylcollection #vinyloftheday #vinylrecord #vinyljunkie #vinylcollectionpost #vinyllove #vinylcollection_feature #vinylcoverart #vinylpickups #vinylrecordcollection #vinyladdiction #vinyladdict #hiphoprecord #raprecord #recordcollectors #recordcollection #vinylcommunity #cratedigger #onmyturntable #vinylporn https://www.instagram.com/p/CY1lT3Yufrl/?utm_medium=tumblr

[andrealynnwrites]

They were having a classic hardback sale at my local library, so I picked up two of my favorites. #gonewiththewind #atreegrowsinbrooklyn #margaretmitchell #bettysmith #classic #hardback #literosexual #literature #reading #bookstagram #bookworm #bookdragon #booklove #library #libraries (at Winfield, Kansas)

[elgallinero]

#intoBrooklyn #straightIntoBrooklyn #straightOttaManhattan #aTreeGrowsInBrooklyn #brooklyn #brooklynUSA #brooklynUK #martes #22maggio2018 #gemini♊ #actual (#official #observed #23julio1962 #leo) #1962 #yearOfTheTiger #felizCumpleanos #aMoi (22mayo1962 #gualey #stoDgo #santoDomingo) (at Barrett John J & Son)

[lopojo]

Nice. (Art by @interiorhints). #offthekitchen #atreegrowsinbrooklyn #naturallight #smallfamilyroom #whybeboring #interiordesign #backdoorentryway #homedecor #mixedmedia #photography (at Los Angeles, California)

[akremly]

A last gasp of Fall #fallcolors #leaves #autumn #autumnvibes🍁 #leafpeeping #atreegrowsinbrooklyn (at McCarren Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CH3vbUJhByl/?igshid=1tynu3x7tehdk

[frsoutherlandauthor]

I really love rereading favorite books. It's like reuniting with old friends. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith is one of my favorites. I read it at least once every year or so. I always find something new to love. #reading #bookworm #rereading #books #classics #atreegrowsinbrooklyn #bettysmith #booklover https://www.instagram.com/p/CGG9FsUgXTx/?igshid=ox5zxn88zm13

[meyonbook]

Estic enamorada d’aquest llibre, no només per la seva història, sinó que també per la seva estètica i el seu tacte ♥️ També us passa?😳 Quin és el llibre que no deixaríeu mai de tocar-ne la coberta i les pàgines per la seva suavitat? 🙈 [eng] I am in love with this book. Not only for its story but also for its aesthetics and its soft touch. ♥️ Do you feel the same way? 😳 Which is that books you would never stop touching its cover and pages for its loving touch? 🙈 . . . #bookish #bookworm #bibliophile #lover #love #books #llegirencatalà #abraçaelsllibres #francie #atreegrowsinbrooklyn #follow #followforfollowback #unarbrecreixabrooklyn #instabookstagram #likeforlikes #bookstagramcatalunya #literarytravel #travelbooks #bookishfeatures #booklover #bookshelf #currentlyreading #bookworm #ilovereading #rainyday #photographylovers #bookblogger #readersofinstagram #igreads #bookaholic #bookaddict (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA-2ub4lNcm/?igshid=udsti3nlj5lx

[tasayutasnaphun-blog]

My Sakura Is finally blooming. She survived the winter planting 🌸💕... . . . . . . . #newyork #nyc #casadetasa #clubtazv3 #sakura #さくら #cherryblossom #atreegrowsinbrooklyn #yearone (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-sh4i0FLZs/?igshid=h0nyqgwz4er6

[lilspydermunkey]

#NowReading number 6 on my #PopsugarReadingChallenge 2020 #Books #Reading #BookStagram #BettySmith #UnitedBookStagram #ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn https://www.instagram.com/p/B9g0lrTDOF_/?igshid=uv5weh3e002x

[pplydm]

ePUB #3

Title: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Author: Betty Smith

This selected electronic publication has been in my Kindle for quite some time. I had intentions to subtract it from my last year’s to-read shelves but was unable to.  I recall I have amassed this release copy last year also. It states in the goodreads website that it has almost five hundred pages in a particular paperback edition. As yet, there have been sparse encounters, such as in films and novels, of demonstration of New York in the 1900s to me. This book, I presume will come in handy for a detailed elaboration regarding it by reason of the distinct dealings of the adolescent leading characters. 

An anticipation I have concerning this novel’s subject is literally a tree growing in the middle of the “concrete jungle”. I  will gladly bring up about the amiable relationship of Ms Francie and her father. Her father was working as a “singing waiter”. I fancied the parts where Ms Francie ironed the work clothes (with an apron and Union sticker) of her father and prepared then served coffee for him too. As I progress, I find myself giggling reading some paragraphs in this; one sample is this excerpt,

“.. At home, his only topic of conversation was the way Drummer, the milk wagon horse, treated him. Flitmann and the horse had been feuding for five years and Evy hoped that one of them would get the decision soon.”

I get the hint that the author deliberately input humorous lines and I, for one, is undoubtedly enjoying chancing those along the way. There was one time when Mr Johnny Nolan had to wait for the midwife to remove curlers from her hair and assisted in searching for her teeth which was found frozen in a glass with water. Thus, it had to be thawed! That made me respond with a boisterous chortle. The character of mr Johnny Nolan, for me, personally, deserves no tolerance. The treatment and the bringing up of his mother to his brothers and him is unorthodox and certainly out of the ordinary. Book three of this novel impressed it as somber and melancholic. Ms Francie appreciates the smallest thing, not ignoring the sense that she was only child thus extra sympathetic. This family’s impoverished yet plenteous with filial love. Exceedingly shown when Ms Francie was attacked by a neighborhood maniac. Anticipated myself bawling over mr Johnny Nolan’s death yet didn’t even. This extract caused me to shed tears:

“Maybe,” thought Francie, “she doesn’t love me as much as she loves Neeley. But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.”

The progress of the novel’s character developments deemed me growing up alongside each of them. For the Books One through Three, chuckles were my main retorts, despite the Nolans’ destitution, combined with amusements. Halfway from Book Three came the tempestous emotions. Finally, I’d have no resolution whether reading it made me weep or cackle more. Extra excerpts worth mentioning:

“You must learn to take a joke, Francie, otherwise life will be pretty hard on you.”

“Why should anyone want to cheat anybody?” She asked in return. “But they do.”

“Who’d ever guess, thought Francie, “looking at the outside of him, that he was so different inside?”

“No, I don’t. But if it has to be, the sooner the better. The sooner it starts, the quicker it will end.”

“Eyes changed after they looked at new things.”

[thebeautyinthestruggle]

Perseverance. #atreegrowsinbrooklyn #bettysmith #igreads #instabooks https://www.instagram.com/p/B8BpUmVJRe5OTA_Bl5p4KaQ62ZLJRdX1hJZmlE0/?igshid=1gz8lhisrg28a

[artistjohn]

An old tree grows in Brooklyn . . . #atreegrowsinbrooklyn #brooklynpark #nycparks #brooklyn #brooklynartist #watercolor #artnews #painter #painting #landscapepainting (at Green-Wood Cemetery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B730mTBlzL5/?igshid=8tsj628mmzrz