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If you wish to view Marilynne Robinson's photo, please go to Goggle images.  I met Marilynne many years ago, through my best friend Sally.  Today is Marilynne's birthday --- Happy Birthday

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.
Marilynne Robinson
November 26, 1943: Happy 70th birthday, Marilynne Robinson! In a 33 year career, the Idaho native has written three celebrated novels—Housekeeping, Gilead, and Home—all luminous works marked by simplicity and wonder.


I always felt that Marilynne's Housekeeping  should have won the Pulitzer. It is one of my favorites.


Currently reading Nancy Mitford's Highland Fling.
Happy Reading.

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What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree...
Elizabeth George Speare
November 21, 1908: American children's book writer Elizabeth George Speare was born in Massachusetts, 105 years ago today. Most of her historical novels, like The Witch of Blackbird Pond, are set in her native New England.


What a beautiful thought......

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Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.
Astrid Lindgren
November 14, 1907: Delightfully rude redhead Pippi Longstocking was the creation of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, but it was her seven-year-old daughter who came up with that perfect name. Lindgren was born in Småland, 106 years ago today.



It is NOT hard to give children love.  Read stories to them every day, listen to their questions, hold them in your arms, and always tell them you love them.

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We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.
Joni Mitchell
November 7, 1943: Happy 70th birthday, Joni Mitchell! The Canadian singer songwriter had polio as a child—the illness weakened her left hand, which made many traditional guitar fingerings difficult to execute. It led Mitchell to develop her own signature tunings.

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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
Anne Tyler
October 25, 1941: Happy 72nd birthday, Anne Tyler! The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist grew up in a Quaker community. She is often cited by fellow novelists as a favorite, with admirers as different as Eudora Welty and Nick Hornby.

We recently watched this documentary.  I remember going to the Wall, once in the dead of a hot July night, once again several years later on a hot August day, the quiet "peace" of this memorial was so overwhelming.  When I found the two names of those I looked for, it was such a blinding pain, yet a relief to have been able to see that they were remembered.
Thank you Maya for the beauty of the Wall.

Beyond the Wall, this documentary shows many of her other works.  It was very interesting to watch her evolve.

Hope you will consider this one.

Currently reading  Anonymous Sources by Mary Kelly, a real page turner!

Quote of the Day-----Goodreads

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Katherine Mansfield
October 14, 1888: Short story writer Katherine Mansfield lived a brief and rebellious life, full of affairs with both men and women. She left her native New Zealand in part due to disgust over the treatment of the Maori people and lived a bohemian life in London before dying of tuberculosis at 34.



Currently reading  "The Last Dog on the Hill"