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'Embroiled in her fictional plot, the main purpose of which was to distance those all too real circumstances over which she could exert no control, she felt a weariness that seemed to preclude any enthusiasm, any initiative, any relaxation. Fiction, the time-honoured resource of the ill-at-ease...'

'Trees still speak, even after they've died.'

'The older you get, the thinner the arm.'

I was always looking ahead to a time when I would miss this.

'I was always looking ahead to a time when I would miss this.'

'- to stand in his thirty-year
sight, and not in love’s sight,
I feel an invisibility'

- from Unspeakable (page 4)

"I think that's the saddest thing in the world, the failure of love. Not hatred, but the failure of love.”

Amid police-enforced social distancing measures aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19, I read in a chapter set in 2015: 'A million people in the world had died of AIDS in the past year'. Research confirms: HIV-related deaths peaked at 2 million in 2005 & 6 (that recently ), and 2017 was the first year since then that they numbered less than a million. COVID-19-related deaths are at 101,000. The year is yet young.

Amid police-enforced social distancing measures aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19, I read in a chapter set in 2015: 'A million people in the world had died of AIDS in the past year'. Research confirms: HIV-related deaths peaked at 2 million in 2005 & 6 (that recently ), and 2017 was the first year since then that they numbered less than a million. COVID-19-related deaths are at 101,000. The year is yet young.

'I have discovered the secrets/
of description by simply living here'
- from 'Glass Bay sonnets' on page 162

Thoroughly enjoying this! Playful and laugh-out-loud funny, artful and crafted, with excitement and intrigue too - and that's just the footnotes :)

Same vein as Bridget Jones. What do they call the sort of cover that has three-quarter-size flaps that can be used as bookmarks? I like that.

This is well-written, well-narrated, has had me snorting with laughter and curling my lip with disgust.

Oh no, my resolve slipped!

Puttering along slowly...

It finally arrived...