#lindagrant

[bibliobethblog]

Hello all and happy Wednesday! If you’re back at work today, I feel your pain 😂 and I’m back with a check in to see what I’m #currentlyreading this fortnight. I’m making good progress through Voyager (two-thirds through), Kingdom of Ash (halfway through) and Sapiens (halfway through). I’m almost finished my re-read of Life After Life and it’s been wonderful 😍 I’ve nearly finished The Ten Thousand Doors of January on my Kindle and I’m still working on my buddy read of Light Rains Might Fall with Mr B. I’m doing less well with We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and Far From The Madding Crowd which I was hoping to have finished but I’m blaming Christmas for that 😂 New books: #pachinko by #minjinlee which I’m reading (and loving) with Lynn from @breathe.andread Waiting For Ted by #mariekebigg starting this tonight with @booksbethanyreads 😁 Heart Of The Sun Warrior by #suelynntanauthor the second book in the Celestial Kingdom duology which I’m buddy reading with @keeperofpages we’re halfway through! The Aeneid by Virgil - reading this with a fab group of bookstagrammers. Running a bit behind but hoping to catch up tonight. I’m also listening to My Name Is Why by #lemnsissay on audiobook. About halfway through. Reading on my Kindle: When I Lived In Modern Times by #lindagrant this won the @womensprize in the year 2000 It Ends At Midnight by #harriettyceauthor about halfway through and enjoying it so far! So if my calculations are correct, that makes it 15 books currently being read 🙈 two up on a fortnight ago! I don’t know how I’m managing this by the way, come chat to me in the comments and let me know your opinions on any of these books! 😅 #bookstagramuk #scottishbookstagrammer #currentlyreadingpile #insatiablebookworm #multibookreader #justkeepreadingjustkeepreading https://www.instagram.com/p/CmuRE-grrH5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[davenport25]

This week's #StarWars #ClassicComicCover is issue 83, "Sweetheart Contract." This is a #LandoCalrissian adventure has he has to help out an old flame. Written by #LindaGrant with pencils by #BobMcLeod. #comics #Marvel #TheYearofLukeSkywalker

[erinsnowblog]

Last night our founder and designer Erin Isakov was honored as the winner of the CFDA + Lexus Fashion* Initiative alongside runners-up #wingyinyau of @wwake and #mariacornejo of @zeromcornejo. Words cannot express our deep gratitude for this honor. Congratulations to our team, material suppliers, sewers and retailers who support our mission to redefine how apparel is made, worn, utilized and experienced. Thank you to the @cfda @lexususa @green_flash_hunter @burak_ny @jasonkibbey @sara___kozlowski @lisasmilor @stevenkolb @laurentcl @babsbrayton @anniegullingsrud @lbperkins @williammcdonoughinnovation @rachelespersen #lindagreer #scotthahn @loomstateofficial for your thought partnership, mentoring and support. We are truly humbled. #redesignfashion #earthday #morethanfashion #erinisakov 🎉🌿🌎🏆 (at The Greenwich Hotel)

[bonbonsewing]

“Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography.”

Linda Grant, The Thoughtful Dresser

[nomadreader]

I felt as if we were all half here and half somewhere else, deprived of our native languages, stumbling over an ugly ancient tongue. We knew that we were to be remade and reborn and we half did and half didn't want to be. We were caught up in a plan to socially engineer our souls and this was being carried out by men who seemed like the distant gods on Mount Olympus or Valhalla, the deities such as David Ben-Gurion and the others from the Jewish agency who were smelting the Jewish future in which we would all be poured, like so many alloys in the melting pot of immigrant life, to emerge as molten, liquid, golden Jewish humanity.

When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant

[bibliobethblog]

I’ve seen a few #orangebookstack posts going around namely from the fabulous accounts @babbageandsweetcorn and @nicki_mags and I thought it was time to share my own. Who knew I had so many orange spines? If you’ve read any of these, please let me know as shamefully I’ve only read Mockingjay from this pile! 🙈🙊 I’ve paired my books with a Citrus Crush Candle from Lily-Flame Ltd, it smells divine! #bookstagram #bookworm #bookstagramchallenges #colourfulbooks #themermaidandmrshancock #imogenhermesgowar #thesummerofimpossiblethings #rowancoleman #allamongthebarley #melissaharrison #thehungergamesmockingjay #suzannecollins #girlup #laurabates #thedarkcircle #lindagrant #thegirlwhotakesaneyeforaneye #davidlagercrantz #everythinginevertoldyou #celesteng #thepapermenagerieandotherstories #kenliu #thestoriedlifeofajfikry #gabriellezevin #lilyflamecandles #citruscrush https://www.instagram.com/p/CAAx8-mAFgK/?igshid=k35i4qrt7tko

[bibliobethblog]

Hello everyone and happy Sunday! Hope you’re having/have had a great weekend. It’s #alphaauthorstack day, started by the lovely @puellalegit and this week I’m onto authors with the surname G. Here are a few books I’ve pulled out of my enormous TBR 🙈⁣ ⁣ The Dark Circle - Linda Grant⁣ City Of Girls - Elizabeth Gilbert⁣ Sophie’s World - Jostein Gaarder⁣ Take Nothing With You - Patrick Gale⁣ Sight - Jessie Greengrass⁣ A Room Made Of Leaves - Kate Grenville⁣ The Book Of Memory - Petina Gappah⁣ All Involved - Ryan Gattis⁣ ⁣ As always, I’d love to know your thoughts on any of the books in this stack. Let’s have a chat in the comments!⁣ ⁣ #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #tbrpile #bookstack #bookobsessed #ihavebookbuyingissues #thedarkcircle #lindagrant #cityofgirls #elizabethgilbert #sophiesworld #josteingaarder #takenothingwithyou #patrickgale #sight #jessiegreengrass #aroommadeofleaves #kategrenville #thebookofmemory #petinagappah #allinvolved #ryangattis https://www.instagram.com/p/CLkNSuagHCP/?igshid=lbv8m24mlzix

[thebooksatchel]

The Dark Circle by Linda Grant was an emotionally fulfilling read for me. It made me feel grateful for the medical advancements we have today as well as ashamed about how much we take for granted. - - Set in post- war period in a sanatorium for TB patients, the blurb might mislead you into thinking it is a grim, dull book. But no! Grant is witty in serious situations and her minute observations about life and the scars that remain deserve applause. - - I loved the book and it made me cry. For a rather lengthy review (that took away a large part of my Saturday morning) which isn't lengthy enough to convey all my emotions, check link in bio. #thebooksatchelreviews 4.5/5⭐️ - - PS: I was overwhelmed by Grant tweeting about my review (did a snapshot in my Stories). Little things as these mean so much to a blogger. If you take a look at the review, let me know what you think as well😍😍 . . Have you read the book? Or have you heard stories about the sad situation during the TB outbreak? . . . #books #booksandcandle #eveningslikethese #biscuits #coffeelife #coffeeaddict #coffee #thedarkcircle #lindagrant

[bibliobethblog]

Birthday Book Haul #3 presents from my beloved after a trip to @dauntbooks ! #bookworm #bookstagram #bookblogger #bookshopping #birthdaybookhaul #birthdaygirl #dauntbooks #thepower #naomialderman #thedarkcircle #lindagrant #howtobehuman #paulacocozza #thenix #nathanhill #idaho #emilyruskovich #whataluckygirl

[nomadreader]

Fifty years later it's so easy, with hindsight, to understand what was happening but you were *part* of it then. History was no theme park. It was what you lived. You were affected, whether you liked it or not.

When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant

[nomadreader]

Ivan favored an alternative society, which would coexist with capitalism, and replace it when capitalism had collapsed of its own internal contradictions. Andrea said that capitalism was more than an economic system, it was a means of manipulating desire.

- We Had It So Good by Linda Grant