pickI loved this book. Having read many of Keller‘s own writings over the years, it was insightful to read about the influences that so shaped his life and it made me think about how I am or am not being intentional with those things in my life too.
America 🇺🇸-Neil Diamond
Invincible-Pat Benatar
Winds of Change-Scorpions
Forever Young-Alphaville
Running Up That Hill-Kate Bush
Take On Me-Aha
I‘m On Fire-Bruce Springsteen
Faster Than the Speed of Night-Bonnie Tyler
Eve of Destruction-Barry McGuire
Everybody Wants to Rule the World-Tears for Fears
Zombie-The Cranberries
Everyday is Like Sunday-Morrissey
80s anthems & Cold War angst-nothing will make you cry today like Neil Diamond‘s America
I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it.
#ABookADay2025
I love Old Hollywood and especially James Dean. Came across this gorgeous pic of him and what can I say, he inspired me. 😬
Beautiful dreamer —
a misunderstood rebel
who left us too soon.
#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #OldHollywood #JamesDean
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I'm back from a week in Pembrokeshire (my happy place) 🌅
St. David's cathedral had a secondhand book sale: I found this. Didn't have my reading glasses with me that day so couldn't tell exactly what I'd found. I just recognised it was DT. 😄
(Also, I was evidently on a mission to collect every piece of sea glass that was on the beach!)
pp.170-71: '[Hardy] was always exceptionally anxious and sensitive about reviews.... He might have spared himself the trouble: the divide between those who disliked his language, his lower-class characters, his troubling women and his gloom, and those who appreciated the beauty and imaginative power of his work, was already there and remained firmly fixed throughout his career as a novelist.'
p. 147: '[Hardy's] is a voice that speaks to readers in many countries and to which successive generations have responded. With this voice Hardy established the territory in which he worked best in fiction, in which rural landscape is drawn with a naturalist's eye and country people are shown playing out their lives "between custom and education, between work and ideas, between love of place and experience of change."' (Raymond Williams)
pickWhat a story🥹. What writing 😍.
Imagine if you grew up knowing you were adopted and were told a fiction about the circumstances of your birth.
In your late 40s you get hold of your original birth certificate, and read your biological mother‘s name…famous Australian writer Charmian Clift.
This book was re-released after the author‘s daughter Gina Chick wrote her memoir, We Are The Stars, a book I read and loved in 2024.
Wonderful 🥰🙏👏
