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Georgia Scott

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Graham Greene, Milan Kundera, Jean Rhys, Colette, Toni Morrison

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December 2021


Georgia Scott is an American poet and novelist from Boston. Educated in the USA and England, she is a former Fulbright and university professor who now writes full time. One of her first poetry readings was at a banned meeting of Solidarity in the 1980s. At one of her more recent readings, she tied up her London audience with red tape. A minimalist with a maximalist love for beaches, Mel Brooks, and baklava, Georgia currently lives in Gdansk, Poland.

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Georgia Scott Always? Always is for love. We sign our lives away with the word. Love always. Yours always. We promise, always, to be true. We give ourselves to one …moreAlways? Always is for love. We sign our lives away with the word. Love always. Yours always. We promise, always, to be true. We give ourselves to one another with the word on our tongues and brand it on our hearts. Writing is different.

I didn't always know the ending of American Girl: Memories That Made Me. There were alternate endings that I had in mind. I spent time with them. Some more intensely than others. They brought laughter and tears and gasps of the best kind. They were good each in their own way. Flaws, I can excuse. Even embrace. Perfection doesn't come into it. What I'm after is something else.

You know the bracelet with a catch so small it's hardly there? It makes a faint "click" when it's latched that you feel, more than hear. That's the ending which at first sight, like love, had me. My ending for American Girl: Memories That Made Me has that "click."


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Georgia Scott I told you. Never call someone's name to wake them because in dreams they will think it is God and they'll go before their time.…moreI told you. Never call someone's name to wake them because in dreams they will think it is God and they'll go before their time.(less)
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Trains of Thought

Yesterday, I got on the wrong train. It was 45 minutes until I could get off. There was a time when I wouldn't have sat there. I once leaped from a train that wasn't mine. This was back when trains had manual doors. But, try as I did, I couldn't budge it. The train by then had started up and began moving. Frantic, I waved to a man on the platform who ran and reached up to pull the handle. When the Read more of this blog post »
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Georgia Scott and 7 other people liked Ian's review of The Birds:
The Birds by Daphne du Maurier
"3.4⭐️

I listened to BBC Radio's audio book of Daphne du Maurier's classic short horror story. The original is much grittier than Alfred Hitchcock's prettied up film version, more of a kitchen sink drama. The characters are not Hollywood style lawyers " Read more of this review »
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
"if i turned into a book i think i would be this one"
Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
"Address Unknown begins in 1932 as a warm epistolary duet between two cultured men congratulating themselves on friendship, good taste, and the civilizing power of art dealing. Max Eisenstein writes from San Francisco, Jewish, single, nostalgic, selli" Read more of this review »
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“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
Rudyard Kipling
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Meag Meag wants to read A Room of One’s Own
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
" It's a book of ideas I thought when I first read it (too quickly) years ago. Now, I'm giving it the time it deserves and the writing stands out most o ...more "
Georgia Scott is on page 36 of 302 of The English Patient: "Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a child with schoolbooks and pencils. The day seems to have no order until these times, which are like a ledger for her, her body full of stories and situations."
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Silent Snow, Secret Snow by Conrad Aiken
Silent Snow, Secret Snow
by Conrad Aiken
recommended for: short stories, childhood, obsessive behavior
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Hypnotic. The sentences swirl like snow. In swells, they can be long, running to a paragraph to describe the snow out a window or "the freckles on Deirdre's neck." Then, real life intrudes in short sentences: "It was the half hour for geography" and ...more
The Good Wife by Georgia   Scott
" David wrote: "Hey I like that poem Georgia!"
That's swell, David. You know, I used to do stage readings, performance shows, and responses were immediat
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Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
" There is a film version, Ellie. It came out in 1993 and doesn't shy from the eroticism that Antoinette exudes and Rochester finds so unsettling. ...more "
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“Love is not a weakness. It's the bravest act of our lives.”
Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“Before there is science, there are stories to explain the world. They make it happier somehow.”
Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“Love is not weakness. It's the bravest act of our lives.”
Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“If you love others, life will of necessity be tragic, beautiful, but tragic.”
Graeme Rodaughan, A Subtle Agency

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
William Faulkner

“Touch has a memory.”
John Keats

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
William Wordsworth

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

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William Thank you for the friendship!

I am doing a deep dive on your reviews of books I have read, Thank you


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Alexw Thanks for sending me a friend request and you had me as soon as one of your influences was Mel Brooks.


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