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Briallen’s 2024 Year in Books
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Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions
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2019
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Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic
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Keywords for Southern Studies
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American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary
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2011
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“I like to lean. Too much of the time I have to hold myself up, so if an opportunity to swoon presents itself, I take it.”
― Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions
― Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions
“The first and best hoarding novelist was Dickens, who crammed his big books with all the details they could hold, and created an unparalleled hoarder portrait in Miss Havisham of Great Expectations, who keeps every object as it was at the hour she was jilted.”
― Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions
― Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions
“For octopi, ink is a defense mechanism, a means of escape. It is for me as well. Octopi surround themselves with clouds of ink in order to disappear before the clouds dissipate. Sometimes they also create hovering blots of ink that mimic their own shape, so predators will attack the ink and not them. Every time I write about my family, I instinctively obscure the truth with a cloud of self-protection, and invent versions of my life that give me a chance to evade the attacks I dread. The only way I know to get past the sense of threat is to go ahead and release the ink and then slowly wait for the cloud to clear. That might be revision. It might mean time. It might mean a lifetime of time.”
― Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions
― Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Nothing But Readi...: Level 1 of the Serious Reader Challenge for 2019 | 141 | 695 | Oct 31, 2019 02:18PM | |
| Nothing But Readi...: ~ Antonym Challenge ~ | 32 | 486 | Jan 06, 2021 01:51PM | |
| Reading Until Inf...: * Virtual Silent Book Club | 227 | 175 | Mar 26, 2022 07:11AM | |
| One N' Done Book ...: Virtual Silent Book Club | 237 | 103 | Mar 26, 2022 07:14AM | |
| Diversity in All ...: Virtual Silent Book Club | 209 | 191 | Mar 26, 2022 07:15AM | |
| Clean Romance Boo...: * Virtual Silent Book Club (Optional) | 215 | 219 | Mar 26, 2022 07:16AM | |
| Old Books, New Re...: Virtual Silent Book Club | 312 | 440 | Dec 02, 2022 05:51PM | |
| Nothing But Readi...: It’s All In The Title | 407 | 1590 | Apr 30, 2025 03:42AM |
“They made her feel lonelier, suddenly, than she had ever felt before. She went creeping into her room and undressed without lighting a candle, then lay curled in bed in a ferment of misery. What was the use of her being alive? Her heart was some desiccated thing: a prune, a fossil, a piece of clinker. Her mouth might as well be filled with ashes. It was all utterly hopeless and futile . . .”
― The Paying Guests
― The Paying Guests
“She rose from her bed full of new resolutions. ‘We must get out and about more,’ she told her startled mother. ‘We must try different things. We are getting groovy.’ She drew up a list of events and activities: concerts, day trips, public meetings. She went in a fit through her address book, writing letters to old friends. She borrowed novels from the library by authors who had never interested her before. She began to teach herself Esperanto, reciting phrases as she polished and swept.”
― The Paying Guests
― The Paying Guests
“Unmarried, solitary, unsociable; why should I expect my writing to be any more successful than my life?”
― Sleep No More
― Sleep No More
“SOME WOMEN HAVE SAID that Mrs. Pym was never young, that even in her initial stages she was probably an elderly baby. Obviously, such women should drink milk out of saucers; still, it is a fact that Mrs. Pym was somehow stolid, enormously capable, and frequently harsh, even in the early 1920’s when she must have been around thirty. She affected the same ugly tweeds, the same enchantingly insane hats, and the same air of magnificent omnipotence as she does today. But her hair was brown then, with only the faintest touch of her current greyness. Her speech was as biting, and her contempt for authority and inefficiency as ready as on that notable day when she crashed the shocked portals of New Scotland Yard, the first woman ever to hold rank in Central C.I.D., where, in these present jittery times of nuclear fission and H-bombs, she is Mrs. Assistant-Commissioner Pym.”
― The Big Book of Female Detectives
― The Big Book of Female Detectives
