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Linda’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Linda’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Linda Lappin
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
Website
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Genre
Influences
Italy, modernist women writers
Member Since
December 2008
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/lindalappin
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Loving Modigliani: The Afterlife of Jeanne Hébuterne
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2020
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4 editions
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Brothers
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1978
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9 editions
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The Etruscan
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2004
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5 editions
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The Soul of Place: A Creative Writing Workbook: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci
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2015
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3 editions
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Signatures in Stone
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2013
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6 editions
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Katherine's Wish
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2008
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3 editions
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Roman Women
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1994
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5 editions
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A Prelude to Signatures in Stone: A Bomarzo Mystery
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2013
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Wintering With the Abominable Snowman
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Katherine's Wish by Linda Lappin (1-Aug-2008) Paperback
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Happy Birthday, Katherine Mansfield
Today, October 14, 2024 is the 136th anniversary of Katherine Mansfield’s birthday. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she longed to escape her provincial community and try her wings in London, where she studied from 1903-1906, hoping to make a career in music. But the petite, plump girl in glasses lugging a ‘cello up the stairs to her unheated bedsitter was destined to find other means of e
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“We are constantly immersed in a network of signs and symbols whose meaning eludes us, but which, if only we could read them, would reveal every detail of our past and even predict our future. Like anticipatory echoes, they tingle in our consciousness, building in crescendo until the event they herald becomes fully manifest. Afterwards, they linger for a time before being drowned out by a new tide of signs rushing in upon us. Such signatures are everywhere...”
― Signatures in Stone
― Signatures in Stone
“What better way to read the landscape than by walking through it?”
― The Soul of Place: A Creative Writing Workbook: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci
― The Soul of Place: A Creative Writing Workbook: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci
“The soul of place is like an invisible net --or a force field -- cast up at times from within a house, neighborhood, or landscape to draw us into its labyrinthine folds.”
― The Soul of Place: A Creative Writing Workbook: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci
― The Soul of Place: A Creative Writing Workbook: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci
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| Shut Up & Read: * A-Z Title Reading Challenge 2021 | 65 | 100 | Dec 30, 2021 01:34PM | |
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“The soul of place is like an invisible net --or a force field -- cast up at times from within a house, neighborhood, or landscape to draw us into its labyrinthine folds.”
― The Soul of Place: A Creative Writing Workbook: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci
― The Soul of Place: A Creative Writing Workbook: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci
“In the murky puddle of rainwater collected at the entrance of the tomb, I spied my own reflection,a dark, hatted figure against a pewter sky.”
― The Etruscan
― The Etruscan
“Beyond that door lies an unknown world...where we can become immortal if we choose”
― The Etruscan
― The Etruscan
“There was a blinding flash of magnesium and a smell of singed hair and dust. A green light flared in the boar's glass eye.”
― The Etruscan
― The Etruscan
“A deep map is a sample swatch of the multiple manifestations of the genius loci.”
― The Soul of Place: A Creative Writing Workbook: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci
― The Soul of Place: A Creative Writing Workbook: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci
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