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Lynda A. Archer
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William Trevor; Lydia Davis; Alice Munro, and lots more.
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Tears in the Grass
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2016
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4 editions
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest:
"I picked this up in an independent bookstore after being intrigued by the description on the interior flap. I hate to say it, but it was a slow slog for me. The first half of the book felt like it was seriously misrepresented. Somewhere in the middle"
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"When I first started reading this I had the feeling that it was going to be a remarkable story. It is after all written by Elizabeth Strout. I also thought when I first met Lucy Barton that this was going to be a story about an ordinary woman . I was"
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"I was excited about this one. I love Scotland, which is the book's setting, and am passionate about the rewilding of our natural spaces, which is its focus. Sadly, though, this focus was incredibly heavy-handed, and diluted by a number of unnecessary"
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“Writing about Aboriginal themes means joining the dots from the colonial policies of the past to the problems faced by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit today. It means acknowledging the wrongs and the pain.”
― Tears in the Grass
― Tears in the Grass
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“Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.”
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“to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.”
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when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.”
―
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Cathy wrote: "Thank you for adding me to your friend list Lynda. Looking forward to reading Tears In The Grass, but please pardon the length of time it takes me to read a whole book, plus my for-later shelf at t..."Thanks Cathy. I'll look forward to your comments on my novel. And...no worries re: your reading time. I am a rather slow reader myself. And often reading more than one book at a time :)
Thank you for adding me to your friend list Lynda. Looking forward to reading Tears In The Grass, but please pardon the length of time it takes me to read a whole book, plus my for-later shelf at the library exceeds 1200! (I'll need to live to age 120 to finish my list) Take care and great reviews, by the way :)
