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I adored MIDDLEMARCH but know nothing about her poetry. Yet. 🤩

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Fun to read. Not sure about the overall message

This is a hard book to read. Unlikeable characters, dealing with life and each other. Anita Brookner is such a good writer of characters, I felt like a fly on the wall, observing their lives closely, feeling their solitude and aging. Thanks for the recommendation Sarah 🤍

#SchoolSpirit #Essays I love Virginia Woolf ! There are many fiction writers who earned a lot of their living writing essays for magazines & journals.

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#WeeklyForecast 38/24

I am looking forward to the tagged book thanks to @sarahbarnes recommendation but first I am a out to start Water, which @Megabooks loved. Penance will be a palette cleanser I think!

It‘s a Wordsworth Wednesday. Next three poems:“Anecdote for Fathers,” “We Are Seven,” and “Lines Written in Early Spring.” The first two are well-delivered anecdotes with gentle morals. The last, a short and not too deep reflection on human destructiveness. What I am enjoying most about Wordsworth is the simplicity factor which can catch you off guard with emotion. Idk- they sort of capture a coy childlike naivety perhaps, an innocence.

Another stunning Brookner that left me in awe. Her storytelling and character development are truly impeccable. I wanted to shake both Fay and Julia throughout the book but I also understood them so deeply. What a writer. ♥️

I‘m on a new medication and feeling a bit loopy this morning, so I‘m jumping ahead to some Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” I‘m reading in fits and starts, shutting my eyes when I get too zonked out. Martin Scofield, in his introduction to this volume, notes that the poem looks forward to the work of Poe and others, and I agree. The use of archaic language, the way the meter shifts, and the imagery are all clear marks of lineage.