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JOMP BPC - 5th September - One Word Title

I know I bang on about this book, but I love it. And having recently seen Samantha Harvey talk about it, about how much she struggled with it and about the love and compassion she poured into it, I love it even more.

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Peonies and good books on this sunny Memorial Day.

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from The New York Times

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Margaret Atwood, from "Crickets" in The Door

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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we exist now in a fleeting bloom of life and knowing, one finger-snap of frantic being, and this is it. this summery burst of life is more bomb than bud. these fecund times are moving fast.

-samantha harvey

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It’s Friday!!!!! Tonight is for glasses of wine, classic literature and soft music. Happy Friday✨

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I love this story.

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currently reading

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Her Body and Other Parties

By Carmen Maria Machado

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Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter to Sidonie Nádherná, dated 1 August 1913

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As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.

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Just a note. . . sitting out here in my room watching dawn come, seeing the mist rise Listening to early morning radio.

August 25, 1964 Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters First published: 1977

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26th August- Current incarnation of the bookshelf, ever changing and evolving ✨️

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September approaching…I feel I owe myself a brief respite of leisure and no rushing around.

Sylvia Plath, in a letter to Aurelia Plath written c. August 1951, from Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963