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BarbaraJean
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I feel
Very much
Like taking
Its unholy perpetrators
By the hair
Of their heads
(If they have any hair)
And dragging them around
The yard
A few times,
And then cutting them
Into small, irregular pieces
And burying them
In the depths of the blue sea
They are without form
And void,
Or at least
The stuff they produce
Is.
They are too lazy
To hunt up rhymes,
And that
Is all
That is the matter with them.

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TheAromaofBooks This is EXACTLY how I feel when I read this type of poetry! 😂 Especially when the lines are super short. 7h
lil1inblue 😍 😍 😍 3h
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Making It So: A Memoir | Patrick Stewart
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The narrative of his memoir is really well done. He was acting all over the place, leaving the child-rearing to his wife, who was also a choreographer professional in her own right. He cheated on both his first and his second wives. I do appreciate the difficult circumstances he came from. He was lucky that he had so many caring adults looking out for him. He was thoughtful about all his roles and how he treated his workmates.

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Searching for Charmian | Suzanne Chick
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I think the sun is going down on my last summery day 😭 so I am sitting on my balcony reading about books and drinking a birthday bottle. I think the tagged book will be the one I take to the Sydney Writer‘s Festival this year to read. Turns out my parents will be in old Sydney town for dad‘s drs appointments to do with his accident not this January but the last so we will catch up for dinner both nights and they have booked the same hotel as me.

TrishB Sounds like a plan. Love your glass ❤️ 2d
LapReader Thankyou @TrishB It was a gift from an old man whose wife I work with. She is way past retirement. I don‘t have a license so he would drive me home from work once a week in exchange for the use of my sauna as it helped with his emphysema which he died of eventually. They were his mother‘s and so delicate. I cherish them. Very generous people. 2d
TrishB Oh that‘s a lovely story too (sad but lovely!). Beautiful and good memories. 2d
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BarbaraJean
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“…may not a person such as myself… whose love of beauty amounts to passionate worship, who finds comfort and help and rapture and courage and satisfaction in a wonderful sunset, or starry waters, or a wood-blossom, or the sleek, ineffable curves of a drowsy cat, or the dance & glow of an open fire—may not such a person be as truly religious as one who finds God in some other manifestation of His personality.”
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#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMJournals

I‘ve enjoyed being back into LMM‘s journals this week, even though it can be difficult to read about her struggles with Ewan‘s illness and the lawsuit with Page.

How‘s your reading going? What stood out to you from this week‘s section?

BarbaraJean I thought her comments on religion were SO interesting—both her description of what she believes (p. 244), as well as her response to this Oliver Wendell Holmes quote: “There is a genius for religion just as there is for painting and sculpture”—and her comments about being too narrow in how we define being “religious.” (p. 238) That whole Jan. 31, 1920 entry was fascinating, as she responded to various quotations she‘d copied down! ⬇ 3d
BarbaraJean (Cont'd) I especially loved her “what I like” section, responding to Ruskin's quote of “Tell me what you *like* and I'll tell you what you *are.*“ That whole entry had me jotting down potential #LMMAdjacent books 😆 3d
lauraisntwilder I'm so behind! I do plan to get caught up this week though and finish with the rest of you. 3d
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BarbaraJean @lauraisntwilder In retrospect, I think I should have built in a catch-up week after The Last of the Mohicans! 3d
lauraisntwilder @BarbaraJean I just finished it on Thursday! I haven't gone back to look at your questions yet. I'm hoping I'll have a quiet moment tomorrow to do that and catch up on posting reviews. 3d
BarbaraJean @lauraisntwilder Ugggh, I‘m SO far behind on my Litsy reviews!! I have a list going back to early March 🤦🏻‍♀️ 2d
TheAromaofBooks I am not done with this week's section yet (and still somehow have two chapters left of Mohicans haha) but it has been good to get back into the journals again. Somehow, they've become almost like reading a letter from a friend. LMM is such a good writer - I generally find even fictional journals to be a bit tedious, but I find hers so genuinely engaging. A couple of things that have struck me so far - that she has started copying out her old ⬇ 1d
TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) journals, which seems like kind of a random thing to do. She states that she is going to “be faithful“to copy it as written - do you think she did? I feel like I would be so tempted to maybe gently edit a smidge!! But I have also wondered all along how there were so many photos in even her earlier journals, and here is the answer! That she added the pictures during the copying, which I found interesting. In a TIL moment, I also didn't ⬇ 1d
TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) know that “bloody“ was a corruption of “by our Lady“ and have also always wondered why it was considered such a bad word! And finally, I thought it was kind of hilarious when she wrote, over a hundred years ago, “I never yet have liked any film I have seen that was reproduced from a book I had read.“ Apparently some things never change 😂

It's sooo hard to read about everything going on with Ewan and how she is still struggling with ⬇
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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) Frede's death - when she said she was so relieved to pass the one-year anniversary, I felt that. But it's so sad how lonely and isolated she is. Why do you think she is SO terrified of other people finding out about Ewan's mental health? Is it just pride/worrying about “what people will say“? She really has a phobia of mental illness. 1d
BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks Yes!! She‘s witty, and such a good storyteller—I feel like I‘m enjoying her company as I read the journals. With her copying out her journals, I think she initially *intended* to copy it as written, but I suspect she began making some excisions and edits as she got further along. I wouldn‘t be able to refrain from “gentle editing” myself!! That info about “bloody” was completely new to me, too! I‘d always assumed it was ⤵️ 11h
BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) …something to do with Christ‘s blood and that‘s why it was considered so bad (honestly that seems more blasphemous to me than “by our Lady”?!?). I love her opinion on book to film adaptations!!! I wonder what she‘d have thought of the Megan Follows version of Anne. I do love those versions so, with the exception of that travesty “The Continuing Story” where Gilbert goes off to war right after they get married. 🙄 ⤵️ (edited) 10h
BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) I feel confident she‘d have HATED it as much as I did!

My heart goes out to her over Frede. It‘s heartbreaking how she longs for a real confidant & friend and seems to have no kindred spirits close enough for the depth of friendship she needs. It makes House of Dreams even more poignant to me with all the kindred spirits Anne finds at Four Winds. I wonder if that lack of a close friend contributes to LMM‘s fear of people “finding out”⤵️
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BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) …about Ewan. Fears of what others will think seem MUCH bigger when there‘s no balancing perspective from an understanding friend. I wonder also if part of it is her fears over his career? If people found out their minister suffered from mental illness—especially “religious melancholia”—he‘d probably have been finished as a minister. The opinions she‘s worried about are the ones paying his salary 😬 I agree that it seems like a phobia! 10h
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(1/2) In school I never cared much about American history. Who cared about a bunch of old dudes who talked funny & wore stupid wigs? Coming into Franklin‘s autobiography I was expecting tough and unrelatable. In fact, I got engaging, &, in a word, stunning. I was struck by how progressive of a thinker Franklin was. He questioned God & religion in a time when it was very unpopular to do so. He felt women deserved more rights & he detested slavery.

BC_Dittemore (2/2) I find that most of the men we consider our founding fathers, were THINKERS. Many fancied themselves philosophers and the majority of them had commendable ideas. So, I find myself wondering: what if instead of remembering Franklin not only for his actions, we gave equal attention to the fact that his ideals were just as inventive.
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BarbaraJean
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😂😂

I also loved this story from LMM‘s childhood:
“One day when I was very small an aunt asked me if I would go and bring home her turkeys from the shore field. I responded gravely, ‘I am afraid it would excite ridicule.‘”

🦃🤣

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Texreader So cute!! 6d
Ruthiella Adorable! 😂 6d
TheAromaofBooks I also need divine assistance to eat celery 😂 5d
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BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks @lauraisntwilder But have you ever worried about exciting ridicule by bringing turkeys home from the shore? 😁😂 5d
TheAromaofBooks Once at the county fair my friend and I took a cow for a stroll around the midway and even let her play the game where you pick a floating duck and get a prize, so public livestock wrangling isn't an issue for me 😂 5d
BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks 😂😂😂 Best answer ever. The cow played the floating duck game?!? I‘m gone. 😂🤣😂 4d
TheAromaofBooks We may or may not be the reason that the next year there were signs saying “no livestock past this point“ between the dairy barn and the midway 😂 😂 😂 To be strictly accurate, she didn't pick UP the duck, but she did nose one and won I believe one of those plastic unicorns like this one https://www.etsy.com/listing/1753806350/vintage-blue-white-rearing-unicorn-5 4d
BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks Oh my gosh, it just gets better 😂🤣😂 I love this so much! 4d
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The Lost Boy | Dave Pelzer
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Lucky Man: A Memoir | Michael J. Fox
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For a celebrity memoir, I was pleasantly surprised at how eloquently this book was written. A blend of his journey into acting and his diagnosis with Parkinson‘s, it struck just the right tone between serious and gossipy. Although he unfortunately didn‘t succeed in his foundation‘s goal of finding a cure for Parkinson‘s in 10 years, he has made a tremendous impact in bringing awareness and support for this horrible disease. Good on audio

MemoirsForMe Great review! Michael is such an inspiration. 🙌🏻 1w
Bookwomble I love seeing your user name ? I'm currently listening to The Beatles Ballads compilation album, track "All My Loving" just ending, "Hey, Jude" just starting ?❤️? 1w
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Oh George, you can read to me anytime with that deeply mesmerizing voice of yours! This amazing Star Trek actor/activist shares such moving stories: spending his childhood imprisoned in American “relocation” camps during WWII(as depicted in his stirring graphic novel), meeting Gene Roddenberry, landing his most iconic role aboard the Enterprise & remaining longtime friends with the cast. Even tho Shatner tried to steal all the best lines!😁🖖🏻

iread2much Ooo, I don‘t normally like biography but this might be worth listening too 😊 2w
MemoirsForMe @iread2much You‘d love the behind-the-scenes stories! 😊🖖🏻 2w
iread2much @MemoirsForMe 😁 thanks for the Rec! 1w
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