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Louise Wareham Leonard

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FIERY WORLD: girl meets Acheron -- God and River of Woe in Hades -- and journeys with him from grief to faith. With a focus on the language of flowers, myths about girls turned to trees -- and reasons to believe.

My all time favorite books are The Enchanted Wood, 03 (Valtat) W or Memory of Childhood (Perec) How German Is It (Abish) All for Nothing (Kempowski), The Tanners (Walser), Charlie Smith, Louise Gluck, Sebald, Theseus (Gide).

Past Praise “Although in style and tone 52 Men differs from either Elizabeth Hardwick’s Sleepless Nights or Renata Adler’s Speedboat, it is, like both of these books, a novel of impressions unified by the author’s sensibility... 52 Men suggests that our identity is at least in part a product of our romantic pas ...more

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Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood

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Louise Leonard said: " Oh, yes: "we have turned victimhood into a weapon of the privileged."

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“How would it be.. if all my hate disappeared like my youth, if after all this time his very hatred of me turned out to be something gentle, some kind of love.”
― Louise Wareham Leonard, 52 Men

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“Men's desire - it stopped for nothing. Even then,even when I was stained the lurid color of waste -- even then someone wanted me.”
― Louise Wareham Leonard, Miss Me a Lot Of

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“It takes a long time to realize that this is it, This is how a miracle feels.”
― Louise Wareham Leonard, 52 Men

tags: inspiration

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“Men's desire - it stopped for nothing. Even then,even when I was stained the lurid color of waste -- even then someone wanted me.”
― Louise Wareham Leonard, Miss Me a Lot Of

tags: men-and-women

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“Dr. Spiro seems to think I don't know how to behave in a mental institution.”
― Louise Wareham, Since You Ask

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“Drink," he says, so I take the cup -- clear warm Haldol swimming like hope -- and I tip it out, ever so slowly, into the lush grass.”
― Louise Wareham, Since You Ask

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“It takes a long time to realize that this is it, This is how a miracle feels.”
― Louise Wareham Leonard, 52 Men

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“Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, “good book,” as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.”
― Jack Gantos, Hole in My Life