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Emmeline #canicule 8y
Emmeline #summerofausten 8y
Emmeline #littleblackclassics 8y
Heat wave
"With your teacher, she said, playing with intimacy, and she was white and smooth. Not miserable and not knowing anything, not abandoned, not dirty-kneed like Joana, like Joana! Joana got up and she knew that her skirt was short, that her blouse was clinging to her minuscule, hesitant bust. Flee, run to the beach, lie face-down in the sand, hide her face, listen to the sound of the sea."
pickUnflinching, transporting memoir-as-social-history/creative non-fiction treatment of the traumatic and taboo with tender and galvanizing sensitivity. Would have been worth my time just for the trial of nonagenarian esoteric philosopher Sister Monica Joan, conducted in part in Cockney rhyming slang. Nicola Barber's audio narration is first-class. A different experience than the first book or the television series and my preferred so far.
Rereading Jane Austen, 6/6
"'...I know the summer will pass happily away. I mean never to be later in rising than six, and from that time till dinner I shall divide every moment between music and reading. I have formed my plan, and am determined... By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelvemonth a great deal of instruction which I now feel myself to want.'"
"I would like to buy myself lots of nice things when I get back to Paris and London - unfortunately I have no money but...
kimonos - long and short
ballet pumps
cigarette box
seamed stockings
War and Peace
The Brothers Karamazov
an Indonesian puppet
Moroccan lamp
a whole stack of fresh beetroot for my cheeks
a topaz ring 3cm fat
Chinese slippers - red and black
cut-glass wine decanter"
Good morning. Weekend accomplishments: Rereading Austen 5/6, #24in48 #readathon 18.1/24
"My mother was right. When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust." -Jane Birkin #24in48 #readathon
"My mother was right. When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust." -Jane Birkin #24in48 #readathon
"So I went. I had nothing better to do, had I, except recount my money and repaint my finger-nails and die of frustration?"
