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Jane Greensmith
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Photos courtesy of my husband, Jeff, whose photos can be found here. He took them during a recent hike at Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat.
Singest of summer in full-throated ease... John Keats
The Light Brigade
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. ee cummings
A thing of beauty is a joy forever... John Keats
The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats
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Photos courtesy of my husband, Jeff, whose photos can be found here. He took them during a recent hike at Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat.
Singest of summer in full-throated ease... John Keats
The Light Brigade
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. ee cummings
A thing of beauty is a joy forever... John Keats
The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats
One touch of nature makes... read more »
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Intimations of Austen
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"Resist much, obey little."
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"I'm listening to it. It's read by Samantha Bond, but she mostly sounds just like Judi Dench, which is perfect.
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"No, but my kids tell me I should. They love it. I'm planning to start later this summer.
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The Girl in the Green Raincoat by Laura Lippman was one of my favorite books that I read in 2011. I picked it for my book club pick for the month of May as I thought the other mothers in our group would enjoy it as well. The heroine, Tess Monaghan...
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| Don't let the 3 stars dissuade you, I did like this book, my first Quindlen. It was funny, poignant, interesting--she's a good writer and the threads and themes held together well. It wasn't great in the sense of life-changing, but it was enjoyable t...more | |
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If you've ever wondered what the life of a thespian was like, then this book is for you! The entire book is filled with every moment of her acting life.
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“Reading is like breathing. Reading the classics is like breathing highly oxygenated air.”
― Jane Greensmith
― Jane Greensmith
“It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: but if I can't do better, how is it to be helped? Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?"
I could risk no sort of answer by this time: my heart was still.
"Because, he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land some broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, - you'd forget me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
I could risk no sort of answer by this time: my heart was still.
"Because, he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land some broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, - you'd forget me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
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Thanks for the friending, please feel free to check out my bookshelves, quotes, friends and groups for things that might interest you or you read and forgot about.
Thanks for the comment about Intimations of Austen--so glad you enjoyed my stories! They were truly a labor of love.
