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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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The Good Wife

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My New Book for 2026

My new book just released for 2026 is Aphrodite’s Swimsuit, A Novel

It is a love story.

A swim has repercussions which neither of them could have foreseen.

1995. The Baltic coast. Days are warm. The Cold War is done. What's a diplomat to do but learn the language, get a tan, and fall in love? Anthony Prentice, pronounced Antony, is tall, dark, handsome and smart except when it comes to mixing drinks Read more of this blog post »
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Published on March 26, 2026 07:18 Tags: age-gap-affair, forbidden-love, literary-fiction, summer-romance
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Dopamine Design by Maitri Mody
"This was cute and inspirational.

While not all of the designs were right for me, they were all bright, busy, and whimsical.

It's heavily focused on DIY (I am NOT a DIY person. I'm a pay someone else to do it person.) and very maximalist, so if you want" Read more of this review »
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Georgia Scott is on page 32 of 180 of Aphrodite's Swimsuit: "Time in old movies, rips with speed. The pages from a calendar blow and are released like so many leaves from a tree. The reality is different. Time is plodding when you are young. Hours feel like days. If weighed with importance and want they drag. We sink in the mud. The shores of our hearts blur with the measure of our waiting."
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February by Boris Pasternak
"3.5 Stars. First, I’d like to say that I have the greatest respect for Boris Pasternak. Doctor Zhivago is an incredible story that I have loved since my 20’s. I have probably seen the David Lean movie 25 times, at least. It and Casablanca are my two " Read more of this review »
Nana by Émile Zola
"By the end I was just spellbound by this, I loved it x
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At Weddings and Wakes by Alice McDermott
"Vintage McDermott. The story of an Irish American family of mostly women living in Brooklyn in the mid-sixties. Seen through the eyes of the three children of the only married sister, we get a lyrical child's eye view of things they don't understand." Read more of this review »
The Open Boat by Stephen Crane
" Pia G. wrote: "What a poetic review Georgia! I’ve read Crane’s The Monster and while reading it I kept thinking of The Elephant Man—though of course t ...more "
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
" Jonathan wrote: "Thanks for the advice Georgia..as we all know, writing is art and individual tastes vary :)"
Tastes do vary, Jonathan. So do our moods
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"The leafless trees become spires of flame in the sunset, with the blue east for their background, and the stars of the dead calices of flowers, and every withered stem and stubble rimed with frost, contribute something to the mute music." (Emerson)

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I first saw poppies when I came to Poland in the 80's. Before then, Ebba, they were the name that Le Carre gave to o
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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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