Find the complete poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/90927/in-the-dark-again #dark #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#bookHaul from Coffee Hound Bookshop in Louisburg this afternoon. The Patchett is What Now? And the Fred Chappell book is signed! 😀

#wood #Poetrymatters @TheSpineView

A lot happened, or didn‘t, in these chapters. His father pushing him to get into the Salon, he didn‘t. Julie following him all over (do you thinkStone is right, that she didn‘t mind playing 2nd fiddle to his painting?) being disinherited. And always the name-dropping of other celebrities of the day. And how could anyone tell anything about a painting in a situation like the above Salon? #depthsofglory #readalongs2020 @Kdgordon88 @smilingshelves

Lucinda is truly an #obnoxiousCharacter. #auldlangreads @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

I found it here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/92715/the-editor39s-ex and can‘t find any poetry volumes by her in the Litsy database. #half #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

Still on my TBR, but it has #AntonymsintheTitle #auldlangreads @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

One of the major works oboists learn is Benjamin Britten‘s Six Metamorphoses After Ovid. The movements are Pan, Phaeton, Niobe, Bacchus, Narcissus, & Arethusa. Since learning it in the mid 80s I‘ve thought I should read the book, but never got around to it. Until now. So far none of the 6 have appeared. Here‘s a link if you want to hear the piece. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ywSnArfKxmk

#utility #poetrymatters Of course I found this online, so I‘m not sure it‘s in this volume. @TheSpineView

Jane Alison was a #newtomeauthor until this month. Now, I‘ll be on the lookout for her work. #auldlangreads @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

About the painter Daubigny “There was no mistaking his expression: try not to be any more stupid than is necessary.” (Portrait of Daubigny by Nader) #depthsofglory

#desk #quotsyjan20 @TK-421

Having only read The Good Earth by Buck, I‘m not sure what to expect from this one. #currentlyreading

Reading Austen‘s unfinished novel, Sanditon, makes me sad all over again that she died so young. I wonder how the PBS series will end it? (This is the dust jacket on my edition.)

The cover and end papers on my tiny edition make it worth the small print!

I reread these today, probably the first time I‘ve read them straight through since junior high. Such beautiful poems, from such a romantic story. No wonder teenaged me loved them. (My edition is nowhere near this pretty.)

#walk #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

Possibly the best Forster I‘ve read, and I‘ve read quite a few. I could have spammed everyone‘s feed with quotes, because he wrote some beautiful sentences! And the theme of needing to set aside our differences and learn to talk out our misunderstandings is timeless.

The #debut novels by the authors I‘m currently reading. I‘ve read he tagged book, the Cather is on my TBR. I‘m not sure if I will read the Stone or not. #AuldLangReads @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

“In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted- Balder, Persephone-but here the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot beautiful.”

Three of my favorite #cookbooks. I have go-to recipes in each. #newyearnewyou @Eggs

#tired #Poetrymatters @TheSpineView

Julie Velay, 1860. How are you finding the beginning of our boy‘s career? I wondered why Stone started where he did- I would have liked more about the time in Venezuela, as that seems to have been a big influence on Pissarro. But I‘m learning lots about the man and about art in general. So (pun intended) what are your impressions? @Kdgordon88 @smilingshelves #depthsofglory #readalongs2020

#weak #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#believe #AuldLangReads @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

#bookwpets #newyearnewyou @Eggs On my TBR, Steinbeck‘s travels with his poodle.

1. Not sure, I read so early I don‘t remember.
2. Watergate
3. Vicks44 - it tasted so bad we‘d stop coughing to avoid having another dose!
4. 👋🏻 @SeaBreezeReader @typhlax @Jeshara @Jasmine_P
#friyayintro @howjessreads @4thhouseontheleft

A #comopolitanmc , in the best sense of the word. #NewYearNewYou @Eggs

There is#goldonthecover of my copy of Ivanhoe. #AuldLangReads @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

”It matters so little to the majority of living beings what the minority, that calls itself human, desires or decides.” (Image from Wikipedia) There are so many beautiful sentences in this book!

A long day at the (almost) end of a long week deserves to end with a repeat of New Years‘ Day dinner and a new read. Maybe 2020 will be the year of reading things I‘ve put off. #100essentialnovels

Not at all what I expected, and in a good way. The MC comes across at first as a 50 something Bridgett Jones, but as the short, seemingly disconnected, chapters unfold there emerges something beautiful. I love the writing, and it makes me want to read Ovid. #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks

If anyone else in the #depthsofglory buddy read has been looking up the paintings mentioned, I found a great resource here for Pissarro‘s work.
https://www.camille-pissarro.org/Portrait-Of-Julie-Velay-Wife-Of-The-Artist-C.18.... I‘m still using Google for other artists. @Kdgordon88 @smilingshelves

#stale #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

I haven‘t read this study of the last year of a #childprodigy (it‘s my husband‘s) but if anyone can claim that title, Mozart can. #NewYearNewYou @Eggs

#worn #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#newinthetitle (but not new in my shelves) #auldlangreads @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

The last time I ordered from #BetterWorldBooks half my order never arrived. They refunded my money quite nicely, so I decided to give them another try. I ordered the complete set of Proust‘s Remembrance of Things Past / In Search of Lost Time because I didn‘t trust that I could get through it in French. This is what arrived. All the volumes (the bottom book is 5, 6 & 7) except 1. Instead I got Smoking Typewriters ?!?! I‘ve written them 👇🏻

This is a #bookIreadin2010 that has stayed with me, and I‘ve recommended it often. #auldlangreads @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

#fresh #poetrymatters @TheSpineView I couldn‘t find any volumes of poetry by her in the data base. This poem was found here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89176/they-dance-through-granelli39s

I appreciate why Backman wrote the first half the way he did, it makes the reader able to see the complex humans involved, rather than cardboard cut outs. It made it a slower read than expected, especially for me who has no interest in any sport and no knowledge of hockey. The exploration of toxic masculinity, herd mentality, and class privilege was well handled and is needed. Not as charming as My Grandmother Asked or Ove, but a pick.

#scandal #newyearnewyou @Eggs

Still fighting this cold, but the good news is that I get to do nothing but read and pet the cat all day. I‘m starting this for both #AuthoraMonth2020 and #ReadWithMrBook @MrBook @Soubhiville

#lasting #poetrymatters @TheSpineView
(Picture is by Renoir)

So happy to get back to Cather‘s prose! #catherbuddyread @Graywacke

1. So many, but I‘ll go with the birth of my granddaughter.
2. Read more books that are sitting on my shelves, especially the big ones.
3. Black-eyed peas, greens (collards this year) and pork. It‘s a southern thing.
#friyayintro @4thhouseontheleft @howjessreads

The darkness of this world view is one reason I‘m not enjoying this book. I hope we at least get some good discussion out of it at book club next week.

So the January color scheme continues with my #BookSpin book. Maybe this will go to Florida with me for my conference later this month. @TheAromaofBooks

#original #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#new #quotsyjan20 @TK-421