Some days she was fine and some days she was underwater barely breathing. At her 22-week check-up, newly flush with well-being, her nausea receding, she laughed at the grainy-grey image moving on the ultrasound screen, and gaily waved at the front-desk women as she left the doctor‘s
office, but alone in the elevator, she sank to the floor, a stark dissolving all around her. She sent Kwame a text. “I‘m 22 weeks today.”
“Are you an artist?” Luuk asked me, at an art gallery in Mexico City. I was the only Black woman there, in the high-ceilinged space, sedate paintings hangin on very white walls. I told him I was writing a travel essay about the art scene in Mexico City.
“Who do you write for?”
“I‘m freelance.”
...where I returned from trips to write in my study with its pastel walls and shaggy rugs. The high foyer, the lingering lemony scent in the rooms, the reassuring off and on hum of central air. I liked to sit out on the deck and watch the leaves turning gold in the fall in the beautiful preserve of trees that my mother called a forest.
“Why would it matter, daddy, if you‘re not here?”
“We want what we‘ve made to stay long after we‘re gone. That is how we seek immortality,” he said and because he hardly spoke in this solemn way about a future without him, I felt tearful at those words, seek immortality.
Write the book you would like to read yourself. Write the truth about life, whatever genre you‘re in. Write what you know and do it convincingly.
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Started reading my official first book of the year today 😏. It's never too late.
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.
Carnegie's Maid
Baked by yours truly. Please 🙏 follow, like and share on Instagram @fabriziabakes. Thank you
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I ate this Lotus Biscoff Cheesecake without the cheese 🧀🧀 while I listened to Matt Haig. I decided to use Greek yogurt which I absolutely love, in place of cheese in this recipe because the price of cheese is prohibitive in my corner of the world. It turned out really divine 😋😋😋
Habit tracking also keeps you honest. Most of us have a distorted view of our own behavior. We think we act better than we do. Measurement offers one way to overcome our blindness to our own behavior and notice what‘s really going on each day. One glance at the paper clips in the container and you immediately know how much work you have (or haven‘t) been putting in. When the evidence is right in front of you, you‘re less likely to lie to yourself
Salut...Starting now with an afternoon snack of home made cookies and milk. I think I'm in for the best Friday afternoon ever.
What do you do on Sundays? Have a wonderful one.
Always😏
Which is your favorite bookish luxury? Mine is reading a sequel right after a cliffhanger 😊
I knew that was ridiculous, that abusers often went for the trophy girlfriend, and then ground them down. Perhaps half the triumph was in slashing down the tallest poppy.
1. My Litsy handle comes from my blog, fictionaddictbookblog. Thoug I'm more active here than on the blog these days.
2. Love to listen to audiobooks while baking and walking.
3. The Existential Worries of Mags Munroe
@eggs #WONDROUSWEDNESDAY
"Regret is a wasted emotion."
I really enjoyed reading this particular one. So many twists you wouldn't see coming. ?? to Liv Constantine.
Amber Parrish's plan to check out the Delacroix painting of Liberty Leading the People at the Louvre in Paris struck me as being appropriate and felicitous given her new found independence and wealth.
Started this one today and I love it. It's been raining 🌧🌧🌧 cats and dogs since 4am and it's the perfect weather for reading 📖
Been reading the Camino series back to back and having a good time while at it. However the segue into the capture of slaves from Africa, the conditions they suffered, their jouney to Savannah was quite traumatic to read and reminds me too much of Roots by Alex Haley.
This one has my adrenaline pumping already🥵
They would repeat it for years to come in times of strife: the most fun I've ever had.
Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had
Listened while I took a walk this morning and I'm super exhausted now🙄
I listened to the tagged book while I made some mango coulis and I love how it turned out.
Though I'm a bit worried for Frankie since she returned from 'Nam. She's not doing well in the real world and I fear she'll return to the war only to die. Fingers crossed
#wonderouswednesday @Eggs
I love both tea and coffee but I'll choose coffee over tea any day. I prefer audio books only when I have to use my hands to do other things like baking, doing dishes... Yeah that's about it.
Almost through with the Violin Conspiracy and I feel like it shouldn't end. I wonder if there will be a movie based on it.
Sometimes when I can't get enough of the book I'm reading and I've become so attached to the book, I do all other things while reading. I eat while reading, I play the book while cooking, doing dishes , baking, and even taking a shower🚿
Who else does this?
First time learning of this quote by Whoopi Goldberg was from the tagged book.
I've wanted to read There Was A Country for the longest of times but I'm really glad to be reading it now. From what I've read so far it looks like not much has changed since the last 60 years particularly with respect to our politics. 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
Current read🙂 and first time reading this author.
* Hardcover
* Slow reader
* Stand alone
* Buy
* Read any time
* My favorite place to read is in bed
* Friends to lovers
* Without music
* One POV
* I'm really indifferent as long as the writing ✍️ is good
@monkeygirlsmama
@Yuki_Onna thanks for tagging me
Feel like playing? @Susanita @BeeCurious @marleed @Librarybelle
“We have an obligation. Things won‘t be better for any of us until they‘re better for all of us.”
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