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J.C.’s 2023 Year in Books
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J.C. Milne
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Tulip Spring, to D. © JC Milne
This morning's poem was a belated anniversary gift to my husband (who brought me red roses and dark chocolates!). It obviously refers to more than tulips!
Tulip Spring, to D. © J C Milne
Rich banners of an army declare this spring,
blood-red, cup-gold, sun-yellow, all flung
brilliant in the breeze, bold bright sheen
a tapestry of delight, a shout, wave, broad
ripple in their worked hostelry of earth,
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Tulip Spring, to D. © J C Milne
Rich banners of an army declare this spring,
blood-red, cup-gold, sun-yellow, all flung
brilliant in the breeze, bold bright sheen
a tapestry of delight, a shout, wave, broad
ripple in their worked hostelry of earth,
fo Read more of this blog post »
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Vladys wrote: "Jeanne, very much enjoyed reading about your take on The Remains of the Day. For me it is a special book. It is the only one I have not
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I'm so glad I finally found time to search for your reviews, Fionnuala - I've been promising myself to do it for ages, as I don't get notifications an
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A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast:
"This is a walking journal in which the author sets out in space but goes back in time.
Dorthe Nors was born in a small village on the west coast of Denmark, far from the urban centres on the eastern side of the country. She has spent much of her adult" Read more of this review » |
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Shocking story about the children in Lewis, Ian. You would be well placed to write a follow-up on how much has changed!
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"A moderately diverting but generally very “light” memoir from someone who acted as a School Inspector in Scotland from the 1880s to the 1920s.
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It sounds just right for a winter's night!
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"Oscar Wilde appears in this novella to be warning us not to take the words of a rotund, short-sighted chiromantist too seriously. Or is he just making fun of gothic tales? Lord Arthur, fearing that he needs to do away with someone before he can marry"
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Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
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It was a friend (Constance) who lent me this book, Ian, and I've just posted it off to my daughter as an extension of Constance's loan, with her permi
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I am late getting to this book, though I almost know the film by heart. I see that several of my friends on GR have reviewed the book, and I hope to enjoy their reviews later. If I read others’ reviews before writing my own, I just can’t do it! This i ...more |
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I was very interested in Ian’s review, here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... although, oddly, I didn’t comment on it at the time! (Editing that last remark - I see that I did put my oar in). Ian listened to the audio version. That way he had ...more |
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“I have always been a man of peace. I have always denounced the man who strove to tamper with an oppressed people by any appeal to physical force. I have always said that moral force was the degree of deliberation in each man's mind which told him when submission was a duty or resistance not a crime; and that a true application of moral force would effect every change, but in case it should fail, physical force would come to its aid like an electric shock — and no man could prevent it; but that he who advised or attempted to marshal it would be the first to desert it at the moment of danger. God forbid that I should wish to see my country plunged into horrors of physical revolution. I wish her to win her liberties by peaceful means.”
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“The happiness of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind; she is destined to become the safe and venerable asylum of virtue, of honesty, of tolerance, and quality and of peaceful liberty.”
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“Were women being confined yet again to that alabaster pedestal so beloved of the Victorian age, when Woman as better-than-man gave men a license to be gleefully and enjoyably worse than women, while all the while proclaiming that they couldn’t help it because it was their nature? Were women to be condemned to virtue for life, slaves in the salt-mines of goodness?”
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“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
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“The great French historian Ernest Renan in the late 1880s denied that a nation was based on ethnicity and language or blood-and-soil nationality. His argument was that a nation consists of people who have a collective shared sentiment and that sentiment is based on myth and history and a series of symbols and markers of identity. There is a constant referendum going as to whether that sentiment still exists in the union. Renan’s concept of a nation is that it can be ephemeral; it’s not there forever, it is not a permanency as it varies according to circumstances. This is a very intriguing parallel with what’s going on in the UK today.”
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Michel de Montaigne's Essays
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We will be reading the Complete Essays by Montaigne, using both the original text (albeit in a modern French version) and the Penguin Classics edition ...more
Elizabeth Taylor - Just one to begin with . . .
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Hi Friends - completed A Game of Hide and Seek - and moving on...
Language Learners and Polyglots
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A place to share books read in foreign languages (for the purpose of culture and/or language study), books on learning languages, and books that inspi ...more
Welsh Literature
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A group for anyone interested in modern Welsh literature.
What next, now notifications are much reduced, and GR is dying?
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On 20 September 2024, Goodreads removed the option for email notifications, without even bothering to tell users (unless they looked at the "help" pag ...more
Wales and the Welsh
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— last activity Sep 18, 2019 03:54PM
A group for those who appreciate the culture of 'hen wlad fy nhadau' ('the land of my fathers'). If you have an interest in the literature of Wales or ...more
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etherealfire wrote: "Thanks so much for the GR Friend Request <3"I'm glad you accepted!
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Thanks so much for the GR Friend Request <3
Thank you, Beata - I look forward to sharing books with you.Jeanne.
Happy to be your GR Friend, JC, and thanks for a lovely request :))
