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A Wild Tonic in the Rain

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The Daisy Buchanan print that I ordered a couple of weeks ago arrived today via the post.

Please do not bend

Please do not bend

She is in tip-top condition after a long trip across the Atlantic. Here she is, looking even better in person than I dared hope.

Daisy Buchanan by Skies Dream Blue

Daisy Buchanan by Skies Dream Blue-“The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.”

Yes, she is modeled after Carey Mulligan (the star of the upcoming Baz Luhrmann film adaptation). The best part? Daisy had an unexpected traveling companion….

Jane Eyre by Skies Dream Blue

Jane Eyre by Skies Dream Blue-“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”

Jane Eyre! Artist Grace Hamilton threw her in, gratis. Charlotte would be proud, I think. If you love literary or cinematic art, with a strong, unique style, be sure to check out her lovely, inspiring Etsy shop here. She is a joy to deal with.

 

Shopping for the Bookworm: Dorothy Parker Edition

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We’ll let Dorothy Parker’s wit speak for itself, in the form of these Etsy goodies. Enjoy!

Dorothy Parker Poster by Kayci Wheatley

Dorothy Parker Poster by Kayci Wheatley-$22.00

I love the graphic pink and white design of this poster. It is a nice contrast to Parker’s acerbity. Continue reading →

The Dead Writers Round-Up: 6th-8th June

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  • Thomas Mann was born on 6/6/1875. “A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.”
  • Elizabeth Bowen was born on 6/7/1899. “Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.”
  • Gwendolyn Brooks was born on 6/7/1917. “Art hurts. Art urges voyages-and it is easier to stay at home.”
  • Dorothy Parker died on 6/7/1967. “I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.”
  • E.M. Forster died on 6/7/1970. “America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.”
  • Henry Miller died on 6/7/1980. “An artist is always alone-if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”
  • Thomas Paine died on 6/8/1809. “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
  • George Sand died on 6/8/1876. “Admiration and familiarity are strangers.”
  • Marguerite Yourcenar was born on 6/8/1903. “A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.”

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[All images are in the Public Domain and are courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.]

 

The Dead Writers Round-Up: 2nd-4th June

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  • Thomas Hardy was born on 6/2/1840. “And yet to every bad there is a worse.”
  • Barbara Pym was born on 6/2/1913. “My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the ‘stream of consciousness’ type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink.”-Excellent Women
  • George S. Kaufman died on 6/2/1961. “When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That’s the price she has to pay.”
  • Franz Kafka died on 6/3/1924. “A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.”
  • Allen Ginsberg was born on 6/3/1926. “America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?”-America
  • Harry Crosby was born on 6/4/1898. “When I like people immensely, I never tell their names to anyone. It is like murdering a part of them.”
  • Arna Bontemps died on 6/4/1973. “There will be better days when I am gone And healing pools where I cannot be healed”-Nocturne at Bethesda

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The Dead Writers Round-Up: 23rd-27th May

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  • Henrik Ibsen died on 5/23/1906. “Do not use that foreign word “ideals.” We have that excellent native word “lies.””
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on 5/25/1803. “A great man is always willing to be little.”
  • Madame de La Fayette died on 5/25/1693. “Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.”
  • Maxwell Bodenheim was born on 5/26/1892. “Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.”
  • Dashiell Hammett was born on 5/27/1894. “I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.”
  • Rachel Carson was born on 5/27/1907. “Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.”

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