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Georgia Scott

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Graham Greene, Milan Kundera, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Rhys

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Georgia Scott is an American novelist and poet from Boston. Educated in the USA and England, she is a former Fulbright and university professor who now writes full time. One of her first poetry readings was at a banned meeting of Solidarity in the 1980s. At one of her more recent readings, she tied up her London audience with red tape. A minimalist with a maximalist love for beaches, Mel Brooks, and baklava, Georgia currently lives in Gdansk, Poland.

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Georgia Scott Always? Always is for love. We sign our lives away with the word. Love always. Yours always. We promise, always, to be true. We give ourselves to one …moreAlways? Always is for love. We sign our lives away with the word. Love always. Yours always. We promise, always, to be true. We give ourselves to one another with the word on our tongues and brand it on our hearts. Writing is different.

I didn't always know the ending. There were alternate endings that I had in mind. I spent time with them. Some more intensely than others. They brought laughter and tears and gasps of the best kind. They were good each in their own way. Flaws, I can excuse. Even embrace. Perfection doesn't come into it. What I'm after is something else.

You know the bracelet with a catch so small it's hardly there? It makes a faint "click" when it's latched that you feel, more than hear. That's the ending which at first sight, like love, had me.

[This question concerned my memoir which many readers consider a novel. But my answer holds as true for my new book. Aphrodite's Swimsuit is a novel.]
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Georgia Scott I told you. Never call someone's name to wake them because in dreams they will think it is God and they'll go before their time.…moreI told you. Never call someone's name to wake them because in dreams they will think it is God and they'll go before their time.(less)
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To the Beach!

The forecast was for clouds. What met me was rain. Not hard but enough to send me running back upstairs, three flights, to swap my sunglasses for an umbrella.

The rain stopped as soon as I came out the door. The sun blazed. I didn't turn around. I'm going. Whatever comes. To the beach! I'm off!

Two types grab my heart. Remote and untouched or covered in tat. I know which one I want.

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Published on September 03, 2026 03:19 Tags: beaches, beauty, meditation, pleasure

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" Reading reviews of my books is like staring into a body of water. They offer reflections on the pages I wrote. Yours had me staring for a while, E. Th ...more "
Georgia Scott and 7 other people liked E's review of Aphrodite's Swimsuit:
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"I have heard it said that when a woman sees her reflection in the eyes of her lover, seeing their desire makes her fall in love with herself for the first time in her life.

I believe this to be true.
I read your novel twice Georgia. It was both beautif" Read more of this review »
Georgia Scott added a status update: Still warm enough for a walk. Have a look at my September Goodreads blog "To the Beach!"
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
"When I first read this short novel by the great Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, I felt very little interest in it. It felt like too fantastical a story for my taste, and I was rather disappointed. But this reading made me see this short novel" Read more of this review »
Georgia Scott and 86 other people liked Kevin Ansbro's review of After Rain:
After Rain by William Trevor
"I'm afraid I don't have enough time to craft a "tutti frutti, oh Rudy" review (too much on my plate), so I'll offer up a cursory one instead.

After reading @Laysee's wonderful "wham-bam-boo" review, I eagerly added this selection of twelve short stor" Read more of this review »
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Our Town by Thornton Wilder
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L. P. Hartley once wrote "There is in the mere act of living when it's shared at the lowest level something that can keep people going and make them feel their value, which, boring as it is, is what we want to feel - without stepping on the gas and r ...more
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Where's Waldo? The Fantastic Journey by Martin Handford
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Ever wonder why so few copies make it to charity shops? No one gives them up. Ever. This is our Alamo. Come for our copies and you'll have to get us first. Good as its predecessor. ...more
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One to buy and keep. Pictures. Just that. Brain food. Par excellence. The reader supplies the story like onion dip to this endless bag of potato chips.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
"We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often" Read more of this review »
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Other People's Trades by Primo Levi
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Got to think about this. Review on the way.
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“Love is not a weakness. It's the bravest act of our lives.”
Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“Before there is science, there are stories to explain the world. They make it happier somehow.”
Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“Love is not weakness. It's the bravest act of our lives.”
Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.”
Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.”
W. Somerset Maugham

“If you love others, life will of necessity be tragic, beautiful, but tragic.”
Graeme Rodaughan, A Subtle Agency

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
William Faulkner

“Touch has a memory.”
John Keats

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Georgia Scott Charles wrote: "Thank you for the quote. I like that. 😊"

They say scents stay in the memory longest and it's true. Despite years living away from that seacoast town, I still recall the tides that perfumed the air. Glad you liked the quote from my memoir, Charles.


Charles Thank you for the quote. I like that. 😊


William Thank you for the friendship!

I am doing a deep dive on your reviews of books I have read, Thank you


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Alexw Thanks for sending me a friend request and you had me as soon as one of your influences was Mel Brooks.


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