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Sara Baker A friend of mine said yesterday that she recently reread David Copperfield, which gave her great hope during these difficult times. So that is at the …moreA friend of mine said yesterday that she recently reread David Copperfield, which gave her great hope during these difficult times. So that is at the top of my list. Then, A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles, LaRose, by Louise Erdrich, Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout. On the nonfiction side, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More Than Human World by David Abram, Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, The Earth has Soul by C.G. Jung. I'm currently reading and enjoying Ann Patchett's This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. Thank you for asking!(less)

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Sara Baker I love this question. Kitty and Levin in Anna Karenina by Tolstoy is by far my favorite couple. They are each flawed humans who manage to eventually f…moreI love this question. Kitty and Levin in Anna Karenina by Tolstoy is by far my favorite couple. They are each flawed humans who manage to eventually find happiness with each other after many missteps. Awkward Levin bungles his first proposal to Kitty, and instead of trying again, tucks his tail between his legs and falls into a funk. Kitty, infatuated with the dashing Vronisky, is deeply humiliated by his rejection. Kitty finally agrees to marry Levin, but they fight a great deal. Yet they grow in understanding of each other, and begin to act less selfishly. Kitty shows courage and compassion when caring for Levin's dying brother; Levin transcends his own self-doubts in his love of his son. They fumble forward, make mistakes, try again, and in the process acquire the necessary humility required to have a happy marriage. I find that this portrait of a marriage is as fresh and contemporary today as it was when it was written, and is, in its way, very reassuring. (less)

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I'm pleased to report my short story, Acqua Alta, has been published online by The Write Launch.
https://thewritelaunch.com/2020/07/ac...

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Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove

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“Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

tags: impatience, mass-media, superficiality

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“Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV

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“So in our own poor hides and from our miserable comrades we learn the nature of satiety. Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle

tags: contentment, happiness

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“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

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