One Writer's Beginnings

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I posted this morning how time figured into this book. Tonight I finished it while on hold for an hour and a half trying to get the results of my Covid test, taken Monday morning. (Spoiler, no one ever answered the phone so I still don‘t know.) I highly recommend the book. I more highly do not recommend getting your test through Mako Medical. Welty‘s prose kept me calm. I‘m thinking I‘ll have recovered before I know - bad cold or mild Covid?

Leftcoastzen I love that book , it‘s a pretty edition. Sorry about your test mess , seems like never goes smoothly 3y

Lcsmcat @Leftcoastzen Thanks. The book is from a library sale I think. And if I have to test again, I‘ll go to the health department. I couldn‘t get in there on Monday and didn‘t want to wait for my results. 🙄 Live and learn! 3y

Suet624 That‘s frustrating. 3y

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vivastory That is crazy... Monday morning?!! Fingers crossed that it's just a cold. Several people I know (including my brother) have caught a bad cold this week. It's scary though bc of thinking it could be covid. I hope you have a restful weekend 3y

Lcsmcat @vivastory Thanks for your concern. I‘m three-shot vaxed, but so are two members of my team at work, both of whom got breakthrough infections after the holidays. I feel bad for anyone who was relying on a negative result in order to return to work. 3y

tpixie @Lcsmcat hope you are doing well ❤️‍🩹 3y

Lcsmcat @tpixie Thanks. I‘m a bit better today. 3y

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Lcsmcat

One Writer's Beginnings | Eudora Welty

Clocks, especially ones that chime, figure in the beginning of this slim volume.

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Eggs

One Writer's Beginnings | Eudora Welty

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Book 16 of 20: a memoir of Welty‘s childhood and the evolution of her writing career in early 20th century.

#bookspinbonanza @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks You are killing this challenge!!! 5y

Eggs I‘m grateful you challenged us this month! If I did this 1-2 more times this year, My TBR would be intimidated... 5y

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Louise

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I enjoyed this charming little volume about Eudora Welty's childhood in Jackson, MS in the early 1900's. One gains an insight into the origin and development of the predominant themes in her writing. If you are interested, there are some interviews with Ms. Welty on YouTube.

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Louise

One Writer's Beginnings | Eudora Welty

This book is a window into a bygone era (the American South in the early 1900's), yet her observations about the writer's craft are spot on in any time period.

kspenmoll Love this quote! Thank you! 7y

Louise @kspenmoll Glad you like it! She had such insight into the inner life of human beings. 7y

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BookishBelle

One Writer's Beginnings | Eudora Welty

Here you go @Marmie7 ! A stack of tan (ish) books. #bookcolortag

Marmie7 A midsummer night's dream is one of my fav shakespeare ! 8y

BookishBelle Me too! @Marmie7 8y

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JenBrown

One Writer's Beginnings | Eudora Welty

Right now I'm waiting for a presentation on Writing and Editing curses, let's see how it goes and if I leave convinced to take a course. I should say I'd like to become an editor after college and I always dreamt about publishing a book of my own (always means since I was 13, when I started writing). I just wanted to talk to someone about it because nobody came with me and I feel a little bit wierd. Why am I always the youngest at these things?

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elkeOriginal

One Writer's Beginnings | Eudora Welty

"It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that the story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass."

#bookquote #greatquotes

Titania I adore Eudora. 8y

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