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Georgia Scott is an American poet and novelist from Boston. Educated in the USA and England, she is a former Fulbright and university professor who now writes full time. One of her first poetry readings was at a banned meeting of Solidarity in the 1980s. At one of her more recent readings, she tied up her London audience with red tape. A minimalist with a maximalist love for beaches, Mel Brooks, and baklava, Georgia currently lives in Gdansk, Poland.

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Georgia Scott I told you. Never call someone's name to wake them because in dreams they will think it is God and they'll go before their time.…moreI told you. Never call someone's name to wake them because in dreams they will think it is God and they'll go before their time.(less)
Georgia Scott Always? Always is for love. We sign our lives away with the word. Love always. Yours always. We promise, always, to be true. We give ourselves to one …moreAlways? Always is for love. We sign our lives away with the word. Love always. Yours always. We promise, always, to be true. We give ourselves to one another with the word on our tongues and brand it on our hearts. Writing is different.

I didn't always know the ending of American Girl: Memories That Made Me. There were alternate endings that I had in mind. I spent time with them. Some more intensely than others. They brought laughter and tears and gasps of the best kind. They were good each in their own way. Flaws, I can excuse. Even embrace. Perfection doesn't come into it. What I'm after is something else.

You know the bracelet with a catch so small it's hardly there? It makes a faint "click" when it's latched that you feel, more than hear. That's the ending which at first sight, like love, had me. My ending for American Girl: Memories That Made Me has that "click."


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Two at Once

Reading two novels at once reminds me of eating chocolate covered cherries. The smooth creamy center is a shock compared with the thin exterior crumbling in my mouth. That's what this week's experience is looking like while I read Vladimir Nabokov's The Luzhin Defense (1930) and Berhard Schlink's Homecoming (2006). The first is the prize center. The second is a shell, nothing more. I'm not here to Read more of this blog post »
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Cooking, I prefer low flames. Living, I'm on high. At times though I have to switch things around. Speed up that pot. Slow myself down. If you've ever felt similar, this book might be for you.

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If he had been a Frenchman he would have seized her in his arms and told her passionately that he adored her; he would have pressed his lips on her nuque. He did not know why Frenchmen always kissed ladies on the nuque. He did not himself see anything so very attractive in the nape of the neck. Of course it was much easier for Frenchmen to do these things; the language was such an aid; Philip could never help feeling that to say passionate things in English sounded a little absurd.
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"Funny Bones" we are taught to call our elbows if they're bumped. I did it this morning. I called out "Funny Bone" and the pain soon fox trotted off. Some rituals are worth not forgetting. They're the spells, like kisses, which work.

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“Love is not a weakness. It's the bravest act of our lives.”
Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“Love is not weakness. It's the bravest act of our lives.”
Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“Before there is science, there are stories to explain the world. They make it happier somehow.”
Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
William Wordsworth

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.”
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“I don’t want to make a gift of myself, I want to be won.”
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“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
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William Thank you for the friendship!

I am doing a deep dive on your reviews of books I have read, Thank you


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Alexw Thanks for sending me a friend request and you had me as soon as one of your influences was Mel Brooks.


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