Book sniffing weirdo who's slowly efflorescing into a scholar of Victorian, Edwardian, and early modernist literature. Diarist. Lettered. Adores Proust.
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Every old book is a new book if you haven't read it. #EmbraceTheClassics #classicliterature
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Dear folks, most important for me to pass on word of this, not only because a new book which focusses on the legend that is Martha Gellhorn is long overdue, but also because I know that Janet has poured heart and soul into this, and every ounce of ability.
10 Aug 2019
Educators, Reviewers & Booksellers - if you're a NetGalley member & want to read the ARC: "YOURS, FOR PROBABLY ALWAYS: MARTHA GELLHORN'S LETTERS OF LOVE AND WAR, 1930-1949" by @janetsomerville - please request here: netgal.ly/Ui7ymq @KirkusReviews (Starred Review)
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Astonishing abandoned library in modern(ish) chateau (especially from 14:55). Makes me feel so melancholic to see such things, and to wonder why such literary treasures lay abandoned :( youtu.be/6ZTzK057ekc?t=620
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Here is another. So sad to see :( youtu.be/bhr9WWBJt_w?t=1046
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In response to France's call for ideas for the #NotreDame replacement spire, I propose this (albeit using less combustible materials, of course):
On this day in 1998 a literary legend did pass, as an 89-year-old Martha Gellhorn - near blind and riddled with incurable disease - did as she had always done in taking full control of her life, by taking herself into death at her London flat πͺ
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Roses are red
And so is a book
Once wedded to words
You'll never unhook
#valentinesday
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A lot of love going around this evening and quite rightly so for #IDanielBlake, but can I also humbly recommend the French film, 'The Measure of a Man' which is very much in a similar vein. Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=SlLUzvHlβ¦
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Software update 1950s style i.e. ribbon change.
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What a glorious way to present short stories. Western publishers please take note π
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"Gellhorn rolled 10 livesβ worth of experience into her war correspondentβs portmanteau, and Travels with Myself and Another is one of the finest books Iβve read. I am grateful for her stories." #MarthaGellhorn
irishtimes.com/culture/booksβ¦
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Buying second-hand can often bring unexpected delight. #60sLibraryEphemera
What's the best thing you've found in a second-hand book that you weren't expecting?
(My favourite thus far was the signature of Deborah Cavendish in a Mitford's biography)
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That Deborah Cavendish/Devonshire/Mitford signature I was talking about. Think I picked up the book for Β£1, too π:
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Born on this day in 1871, the man who opened my eyes like no other to the pleasure and wonderment of all that surrounds us.
I salute you M. Proust, and my heart and soul applaud you. β€οΈ
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"Desire makes all things blossom, while possession makes them wither." ~ Marcel Proust
[photo credit: Vivian Maier, 1957]
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"For a writer who has been working, to read is like getting into a carriage after a toilsome walk." ~ Jules Renard. April, 1899.
[image: Pierre August Renoir, Claude Monet (The Reader) 1874]
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28 Jun 2018
Behold! London-based cartoonist Roger Langridge's comic adaptation of 'Leave it to Jeeves.' Topper stuff: hotelfred.blogspot.com/2018/β¦
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Sight of the #edbookfest ticket queue every year, restores my faith that dedicated literary lovers are far from a dying breed β€οΈ. Tickets sales open online NOW, folks. x.com/edbookfest/status/1011β¦
26 Jun 2018
Here's the #edbookfest queue at the @eicc this morning. Just over an hour to go before tickets go on sale at 0830 online, on the phone and in person!
If you are planning on booking tickets online today, make sure you're logged on to our website.
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Reading Wodehouse is never challenging, but should you need some little encouragement.... #WodehouseChallenge x.com/TinkertyTonk/status/10β¦
19 Jun 2018
Most splendiferous news reaching us this a noon, of a clutch of 5 Jeeves & Wooster reissues coming this end of June, courtesy of @arrowpublishing. They're also throwing out a #WodehouseChallenge to all good eggs, to read a Wodehouse classic this summer. Up for it?
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