Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
As We are Now
As We are Now: A Novel | May Sarton
7 posts | 5 read | 1 to read
An old woman, placed in a country nursing home by her brother, struggles to maintain her sanity and dignity by expressing her thoughts in a notebook
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
quote
Kerrbearlib
post image

“Sometimes silence is the greatest sign of understanding and of respect. It is far more consoling than words of false comfort.”

quote
Kerrbearlib
post image

“...almost all of us shut ourselves away from what is painful.”

quote
Kerrbearlib
post image

“Today I saw the sun rise, peaceful burst of light across the misty field.”

#sunrise

quote
Kerrbearlib
post image

“I remain a mystery to myself.”

blurb
Kerrbearlib
post image

Love me some May Sarton ❤️

10 likes1 stack add
review
bookwrm526
post image
Pickpick

I finished this one in October but apparently forgot to post it for the #booked2018 challenge for MC over 70. I loved the prose and now definitely want to read some of her poetry, but it was a terribly sad story about aging and how easy it is to let people just fade away.

8little_paws That's a gorgeous shot! 6y
bookwrm526 @8little_paws thank you :) I had a lot of long days this semester so I got lots of good sunrise and sunset pictures! 6y
Cinfhen Beautiful pic and book sounds lovely but heavy 6y
38 likes3 comments
review
suvata
post image
Pickpick

"I am not mad, only old ... I am in a concentration camp for the old." And so it begins…