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Jill’s 2025 Year in Books
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Jill Koenigsdorf
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in Kansas City, Missouri, The United States
February 11
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The Strays, By Emily Bitto
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Phoebe and the Ghost of Chagall
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Late Spring The bliss of quiet today,a strange absence ...
Late Spring
The bliss of quiet today,
a strange absence of motors,
of any man-made sounds.
certainly not silence.
This haven has its own
ambience-
the chortle of willful squirrels,
the piccolo explorations
of hatchlings.
& under the pomegranate tree,
each red flower trembles,
reverberating
with the hum
of laboring bees.
Spring is shorter now,
warm enough for the wine-colored sweet peas
to blossom, to st
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
English novelist (1812 - 1870”
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Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
English novelist (1812 - 1870”
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“This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek.”
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“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
― A Moveable Feast
― A Moveable Feast
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
English novelist (1812 - 1870”
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Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
English novelist (1812 - 1870”
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