#cathleen schine

[canesenzafissadimora]

Come ci si innamora? Si casca? Si inciampa, si perde l’equilibrio e si cade sul marciapiedi, sbucciandosi un ginocchio, sbucciandosi il cuore? Ci si schianta per terra, sui sassi? O è come rimanere oltre l’orlo di un precipizio, per sempre?

[petalididonna]

Una lettera, nel momento in cui la infili nella busta, cambia completamente.

Finisce di essere mia, diventa tua.

Quello che volevo dire io è sparito.

Resta solo quello che capisci tu.

-Cathleen Schine-

[the-bi-library]

Bi/bisexual books out in March! 💖💜💙

💕 The Immeasurable Depth of You by Maria Ingrande Mora 💕 The Shattered Lands by Brenna Nation 💕 Always Be Your Baby by illustraice 💕 Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood 💕 Render to Silver by Catherine Labadie 💕 The Memory Eater by Rebecca Mahoney 💕 Dear Medusa by Olivia A. Cole 💕 Have Me Forever by Ally Blythe 💕 Bitter Medicine by Mia Tsai 💕 The Blood Hours by Ann H. Fox 💕 The Faithless by C.L. ClarkT 💕 Lucky in Lace by Melissa Brayden 💕 The Future King by Robyn Schneider 💕 Solomon's Crown by Natasha Siegel 💕 Furious Heaven by Kate Elliott 💕 The Foxglove King by Hannah F. Whiten 💕 Arca by G.R. Macallister 💕 Their Countess by Jess Michaels 💕 Künstlers in Paradise by Cathleen Schine 💕 Unforgettable by Grace Turner 💕 Blackheart Ghosts by Laure Eve

[vento-del-nord]

Come ci si innamora? Si casca? Si inciampa, si perde l’equilibrio e si cade sul marciapiede sbucciandosi un ginocchio, sbucciandosi il cuore?

CATHLEEN SCHINE

[ghostcradle]

“And then Alice is the representation of every woman: a whole set of annotations could be added tracing Alice imagery and Alice imitation in women’s fiction, from Cathleen Schine to Virginia Woolf. (Every man identifies with Hamlet, it has been said, since every man imagines himself a disinherited monarch; every woman identifies with Alice, since every woman sees herself as the sole sane person in a world filled with lunatics who imagine themselves disinherited monarchs.)”

[sesame-sim]

BOOK - The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine

QUICK SYNOPSIS - Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, a pair of red-headed twin sisters, get in an almost lifelong rift over who gets to keep the family dictionary.

IMAGE 1 - A couple years after first-born son Don Wolfe went off to university to study psychiatry, younger brother Arthur enrolled to study economics. This was purely to satisfy his father. Words had always been held in high esteem in Arthur's eyes far more than numbers ever were so he spent much of his time holed up in the library reading. One afternoon he aided a female student with finding the poetry section and got to talking about the beauty of words. She asked him if he was a Simlish major.

ARTHUR: (bitterly) No, I'm in economics. In a few years I"ll be counting the coins of others, piling it up, hiding it in safe, filthy little bundles. That'll be my profession. SALLY: Don't be such a snob about money! Lawyers make money. Doctors make money too. ARTHUR: But their days aren't spent COUNTING money. SALLY: (laughing) I wonder. (Then, slyly) I understand your point that numbers aren't as noble as words. Numbers are quite useless. By the way, we had SIX inches of snow but it's above THIRTY-TWO degrees so it won't stick for long. But the ground is still treacherous and I've got to make my way to a THREE o'clock lecture in FIFTEEN minutes without breaking my FOUR limbs or my grade is going to plummet to ZERO."

IMAGE 2 - Arthur blinked at her. Then he walked and talked with her straight out of the library doors after she had checked out her book. He reasoned he had to make sure she didn't take a tumble.

BOOK TIME/PLACE - 1950, their university was not mentioned in the book

MY SAVE TIME/PLACE - Sim Year 50 / Sim Day 5694 / Winter D9 / MON / Britechester

SONG PAIRING - From 1950, Bewitched by Bill Snyder

[sesame-sim]

Books I'm Currently Playing

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Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain along with Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography by Laurie Woolever

Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur

Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi

The Color of Water by James McBride

Will update this whenever any books are added in or retired from the lineup. FYI I add a new book in after every 5 sim years in my save.)

[diocanguro]

Come ci si innamora? Si casca? Si inciampa, si perde l'equilibrio e si cade sul marciapiede, sbucciandosi un ginocchio, sbucciandosi il cuore? Ci si schianta per terra, sui sassi? O è come rimanere sospesi oltre l'orlo di un precipizio, per sempre?

So che ti amo quando ti vedo, lo so quando ho voglia di vederti. Non un muscolo si è mosso. Nessuna brezza agita le foglie. L'aria è ferma. Ho cominciato ad amarti senza fare un solo passo. Senza neanche un battito di ciglia. Non so neppure quando è successo.

Cathleen Schine - La lettera d'amore

[alonewolfr]

Una lettera, nel momento in cui la infili nella busta, cambia completamente. Finisce di essere mia, diventa tua. Quello che volevo dire io è sparito. Resta solo quello che capisci tu.

|| Cathleen Schine

[leohtttbriar]

"The Voyage Out," Cathleen Schine on After Sappho by S. W. Schwartz

[sesame-sim]

I'm now at Sim Year 50 in my save! Major milestone. Time to take a moment and see where we're at in each book that I'm playing.

BOOK - The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine (fiction)

QUICK SYNOPSIS - Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, a pair of red-headed twin sisters, get in an almost lifelong rift over who gets to keep the family dictionary.

HOW FAR ARE WE? - 20 sim years have passed covering 1930-1949. This one was added to my books save in Sept. 2020

I've basically played all of Don and Arthur's growing up years already. Now Arthur will meet Sally and marry while still in university so the twins are finally going to enter the picture.

Am now also setting up the births of the twins' future beaus who are similar in age to them.

3 PEEKS INTO THE NEXT DECADE:

Arthur and Sally marry and have the twins

A couple years later, Don marries Paula

Arthur and Sally get a dog who is also a redhead. So many redheads.

[sesame-sim]

BOOK - The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine

QUICK SYNOPSIS - Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, a pair of red-headed twin sisters, get in an almost lifelong rift over who gets to keep the family dictionary.

IMAGE 1 - Don Wolfe, the twins' uncle as a young adult. He is a couple years older than the twins' father Arthur.

IMAGE 2 - Don is studying to go into psychiatry, still a relatively new field at the time. But the consequence of the eldest son not going into the family accounting business was that the unwanted responsibility fell onto the second son, Arthur. Arthur didn't love mathematics, he loved words. Learning accounting made him miserable. He theorized bitterly that Don needed to study psychiatry to compensate for his short stature.

BOOK TIME/PLACE - Larchmont, New York 1948

MY SAVE TIME/PLACE - Sim Year 48 / Sim Day 5470 / Winter D9 / TUE / Newcrest

[sesame-sim]

BOOK - The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine

QUICK SYNOPSIS - Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, a pair of red-headed twin sisters, get in an almost lifelong rift over who gets to keep the family dictionary.

IMAGE - The Wolfe family, a family of redheads. The sons are Don and Arthur. Don is 13 and Arthur is 11, but Arthur is already very close to his older brother's height which does not make Don happy. (Arthur will later be the father of the twins who are the main focus of the book).

BOOK TIME/PLACE - Larchmont, New York 1942

MY SAVE TIME/PLACE - Sim Year 42 / Sim Day 4685 / Winter D9 / MON / Willow Creek

[cmcgt]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60784564-k-nstlers-in-paradise

“The beloved bestselling author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport—once dubbed “the modern-day Jewish Jane Austen”—brings forth a comedy of generational manners that glides between 1939 and 2020 L.A. as Mamie Künstler and her grandson weather hard times and discover how to make them their own. Julian Künstler comes from New York City to L.A. like many a lost twenty-something: to find a job writing in the entertainment industry. But this is 2020 and his temporary visit turns into an extended stay, trapped by the lockdown in a little house in Venice with his glamorous, eccentric, and ancient grandmother. Ninety-three-years old, Mamie came to Los Angeles from Vienna at eleven with her parents in 1939 among a wave of Jewish musicians, directors, and intellectuals escaping Hitler. As the months roll on, she begins to tell Julian her stories of the eminent emigres she’s known and the magical world they inhabited as their old world was destroyed—people like Arnold Schoenberg, Christopher Isherwood, and Greta Garbo. Not quite all her stories, however. The pandemic isolates Julian from his world, but from Mamie he learns of the world that came before him and how much the past holds of the future. A tender, sharply wrought comic novel about exile, the power of stories handed down and handed on, and the power of stories held secretly in the heart. Cathleen Schine’s writing has been hailed as “sparkling, crisp, clever, deft, hilarious and deeply affecting” by the New York Times, and those qualities stand out more than ever in Künstlers in Paradise. Here, Schine weaves together the story of a family of Jewish émigrés just after they fled from Vienna to LA in the 1930s and life in the pandemic to craft a beautiful, often humorous examination of the identities we inherit and assume and what it means to be displaced. Künstlers in Paradise is the coming-of-age story of a indecisive young man coming into his own and his eccentric, worldly grandmother as they both discover that history does not end.”

May 2023

[wellreadwyvern]

🎉NEW RELEASE TUESDAY🎉 Here’s a sampling of today’s new releases from my NetGalley shelf: BITTER MEDICINE by MIA TSAI @taschen My most anticipated March release! I WILL FIND YOU AGAIN by SARAH LYU @simonandschuster Look for my review of this YA contemporary mystery on Friday! HELLO BEAUTIFUL by ANN NAPOLITANO @randomhouse One of this month’s most eagerly awaited titles by the author of Dear Edward. KUNSTLERS IN PARADISE by Cathleen Schine @henryholtbooks Described as “a comedy of generational manners,” a 20-something New Yorker visits his eccentric 93-year-old grandmother and is forced into an extended stay when LA goes into lockdown. A LIKELY STORY by LEIGH MCMULLAN ABRAMSON @atriabooks “The only child of an iconic American novelist discovers a shocking tangle of family secrets…” A MANUAL FOR HOW TO LOVE US by ERIN SLAUGHTER @harpercollins An “interlinked collection of stories exploring the primal nature of women’s grief.” THE SCHOOLHOUSE by SOPHIE WARD @vintageanchorbooks In this “thriller about truth, silence, and the weight of the past,” a missing girl forces Isobel to face her own trauma at an experimental school in the ‘70s. NOTHING BUT THE RAIN by NAOMI SALMAN @tordotcompub A novella in which “a sleepy little town discovers its memories have become part of the water cycle.” A TEMPEST AT SEA by SHERRY THOMAS @berkleypub Book 7 of the Lady Sherlock series! I often recommend these delightful historical mysteries to friends. RED LONDON by ALMA KATSU @putnambooks A “race-against-the-clock” spy novel (Red Widow sequel). Thank you to the listed publishers for providing eARCs for review. #bittermedicine #miatsai #iwillfindyouagain #sarahlyu #hellobeautiful #annnapolitano #kunstlersinparadise #cathleenschine #alikelystory #leighmcmullanabramson #amanualforhowtoloveus #erinslaughter #theschoolhouse #sophieward #nothingbuttherain #naomisalman #atempestatsea #sherrythomas #redlondon #almakatsu #newreleasetuesday #newbooktuesday #pubday #newbooks #booksbooksbooks #netgalleyreads #bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CpyLfUlhmXD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ragazzoarcano]

“Una lettera, nel momento in cui la infili nella busta, cambia completamente. Finisce di essere mia, diventa tua. Quello che volevo dire io è sparito. Resta solo quello che capisci tu.”

— Cathleen Schine