Kelly

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Kelly’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (774)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1055)
fiction‎ (708)
owned‎ (455)
21st-century‎ (302)
examined-lives‎ (226)
20th-century-postwar-to-late‎ (220)
brit-lit‎ (207)
fantasy-and-scifi‎ (183)
its-the-quiet-ones‎ (163)
20th-century-early-to-mid‎ (157)

history‎ (136)
romantical‎ (129)
worlds-lost-dead-and-dying‎ (115)
the-continent‎ (110)
great-and-terrible-men‎ (104)
grand-opera‎ (101)
identity-crisis‎ (99)
goth-goth-baby‎ (95)
19th-century‎ (93)
cultural-meetings‎ (89)
philosophy-theory-criticism‎ (87)
woundedsoulsandfragileflowers‎ (87)

tres-francais‎ (86)
melancholia‎ (85)
shes-quite-an-original-my-dear‎ (73)
international-affairs‎ (67)
coming-soon-to-a-blog-near-you‎ (64)
grande-dames‎ (64)
forandbecauseofgradschool‎ (60)
mawwiageiswhatbringsustogethertoday‎ (56)
current-affairs-and-politics‎ (47)
theonewithacrushontheprofessor‎ (46)
wits-and-fools‎ (45)
favorites‎ (44)

regency‎ (44)
1500-1700‎ (38)
theatre‎ (38)
did-not-finish‎ (33)
history-british‎ (32)
victorian‎ (31)
life-of-a-teacher‎ (29)
18th-century‎ (26)
vita-virginia-violet-and-kindred‎ (24)
mare-nostrum‎ (22)
truly-dreadful‎ (22)
imperialism‎ (21)

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Kelly’s Quotes

“Any idiot can face a crisis—it’s day to day living that wears you out.”
― Clifford Odets

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“For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva

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“Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make”
― Louise Penny, Still Life

tags: choice, life, observation

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“It was really true, there was no longer anything about him that could interest me. He wasn't even a fragment of the past, he was only a stain, like the print of a hand left years ago on a wall.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

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“Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the plowshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring, and reserve a nook of shadow for the passing bird; keep a place in your heart for the unexpected guests, an altar for the unknown God. Then if a bird sing among your branches, do not be too eager to tame it. If you are conscious of something new - thought or feeling, wakening in the depths of your being - do not be in a hurry to let in light upon it, to look at it; let the springing germ have the protection of being forgotten, hedge it round with quiet, and do not break in upon its darkness.”
― Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Amiel's Journal

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Kelly’s Groups

The Balcony of Europe: A Novel Group — 35 members — last activity Aug 14, 2014 01:52PM
This group was inspired by our love for European literary fiction. We are mainly interested in exploring minor gems from the Modernist era to the pres ...more

Dorothy Richardson — 80 members — last activity Oct 28, 2023 10:32AM
A group for all things related to the life and work of this criminally neglected Modernist genius who died alone, forgotten and poverty-stricken, in 1 ...more

Virago Modern Classics — 402 members — last activity Dec 25, 2025 12:46AM
But once a woman stole the initiative, plundered the perquisites and took the lead, what happened to the globe? The fabric cracked [Daphne du Maurier] ...more

Homer's The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson — 198 members — last activity Aug 15, 2025 01:06PM
In this group, we will read and discuss Emily Wilson's new translation of Homer's The Odyssey, published in November 2017 by Norton. We also welcome d ...more