Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
~Albert Camus
~Albert Camus
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Showing posts with label Author A-F. Show all posts
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonize. The birds are consulting about their migration, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
~George Eliot (letter to Miss Lewis, Oct. 1, 1841)
~George Eliot (letter to Miss Lewis, Oct. 1, 1841)
Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.
~Nora Ephron
~Nora Ephron
A multitude of small delights constitutes happiness.
~Charles Baudelaire
~Charles Baudelaire
...summed up nicely by one of my favorite authors. At once erudite and irreverent, Bill Bryson's books are a delightful way to engage in some seriously fun reading as I did this weekend with a library copy of Road to Little Dribbling. I am also a big fan of walking, wandering, hiking, strolling, traipsing and searching my thesaurus ;) Isn't English fun?!
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again."
~Lewis Carrol, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
~Lewis Carrol, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.
~Leif Enger, Peace Like a River
~Leif Enger, Peace Like a River
Even though I made it over half way through Jonathan Evison's The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, I just couldn't finish it. Ugh. It was predictable, for starters, and also just too . . . oh I don't know . . . trying too hard to be tender but 'real'? It was a forced kind of authentic. I'm usually wary of books with long convoluted titles (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, anyone?) so Revised Fundamentals must have snuck in under my reading radar. Isn't there a writing rule somewhere that recommends using fewer words whenever possible? A less-is-more kind of thing? I think that should apply to titles as well. The books themselves might be okay, it's just this one wasn't.
Anyway, moving on.
Before Wild, Cheryl Strayed wrote a novel called Torch, an emotionally heavy book about how cancer can wreak havoc on a family. I loved Wild and knew I would be reading everything else this author writes. So here I am reading Torch and loving it so far.
Anyway, moving on.
Before Wild, Cheryl Strayed wrote a novel called Torch, an emotionally heavy book about how cancer can wreak havoc on a family. I loved Wild and knew I would be reading everything else this author writes. So here I am reading Torch and loving it so far.
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