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Simple, wholesome and feel good 💕

Reading for the second time because the writing is phenomenal, particularly in terms of creating a sense of a town’s geography.

‘Kokoro woke up to the sound of raindrops striking her window, the sort of weather she didn’t mind at all.’

Ready to cry 🥲

(about Janet) ‘when we were younger we’d get up on ‘free mornings’ and make a schedule for the day. Usually it would read something like this:
get up, feed the animals, watch some cartoons, go to the movies, go to a restaurant, go to another movie, go home and go swimming.’ 🥹🥹🥹🥹

Did not see that plot test coming at allll 😳

‘…it was not love, it was a little fever of admiration.’

I am enjoying this and feel bad for my previous disparaging remarks about Austen’s writing 😭. I think ‘Emma’ just jarred me differently but maybe an annoying character is just a testament to a great writer

There is little doubt that Morpurgo is a brilliant children’s writer and whilst his heart seems to be in the right place, some of these essays were under researched and crammed with platitudes that failed to hit the mark. A disappointing read so far

‘Mornings.
I struggle to decide what mood to wear.’

‘On the boat grandmother anticipated England’s
winters with the others.’

‘He wants to keep a leaf for a pet.
I want to warn him about getting
attached to things already lost.’

‘I’ve been myself longer than my undoing’. From the poem ‘Cause’ which is about Britain’s existence being underpinned by immigration.

MacEwan focuses on the Bronte sisters’ time in Brussels at the Pensoniat where they both learnt and taught languages.
Charlotte’s experiences in particular provide food for thought on the link between an artist’s experiences and their art; the similarities between her time in Brussel’s and her novels, Vilette and The Professor, being unmistakable.

Salve for the soul kind of book

‘I walked so light in heavy shoes’

‘On snow and sand and turf, I
see
where love has left a printed trace,
With straining in the world’s
embrace’

Peter’s brother: is this really you Peter? You’re the ripper?
Peter: I’m afraid so our kid
😭😭😭