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Jenn Houle
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Award-winning, Maritime Canadian author (poetry, children's lit, nonfic), feminist, mother, skygazer, amateur nature photographer. Books. Myth. Symbolism. Joy in spite and joy because.
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 1
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Collected Poems - John Keats
December 16, 2024 at 3:12 AM
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This darling little tabby cat aspires to guiding a sleigh through the wintry sky.
Little grey tabby cat with peachy cheeks sitting in a sparkly, decorative little Christmas sleigh, formerly occupied by a stuffed snowperson. The cat looks very, very serious.
December 15, 2024 at 3:55 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 16
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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
December 15, 2024 at 3:51 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
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Day 15
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Wisława Szymborska, Poems New and Collected
December 11, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 14
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Danse Macabre by Stephen King
December 10, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
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Day 13
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The Trees in my Forest by Bernd Heinrich
December 8, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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Day 12
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Effort at Speech - New and Selected Poems by William Meredith
December 7, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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Day 11
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Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton
December 6, 2024 at 3:27 AM
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Day 10
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Front cover of The World's Best Fairy Tales. Castles against a golden background. The World's Best Fairy Tales - Reader's Digest
December 5, 2024 at 5:05 AM
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Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler
December 3, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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Traveling Mercies - Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
December 2, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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Cosmos and Psyche - Intimations of a new world view by Richard Tarnas
December 1, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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Day 6
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Middlemarch by George Eliot
December 1, 2024 at 2:57 AM
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Hope in the Dark - Untold Histories,Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
November 30, 2024 at 12:01 AM
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Corinne, Or Italy by Madame de Staël, translated from the original French by Sylvia Raphael.
November 28, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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From my Millie to yours. I'm sure they'd get along & bridge any divides, even galactic ones. Happy birthday!
A naughty kitten named Millie up next to a bathroom sink where she should not be. The look on her face says she'll go where she pleases. A handmade wooden lighthouse behind her has yet to be knocked over.
November 28, 2024 at 12:52 AM
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Day 3
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If Women Rose Rooted - The Journey to Authenticity and Belonging by Sharon Blackie
November 27, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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Uncanny to see this rose bush sprouting leaves & I think a teensy rosebud in late Nov, in NB Canada. More uncanny, I came into this screensaver on TV and there is a rose very like the ones this bush produces. A message? Other than climate change is real & turn off your TV, you're wasting energy?
A sprig of fresh, rain speckled rose leaves in late November. Strange. Decaying autumn leaves beneath it. Image of an orangey rose on a TV screen.
November 27, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 2
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Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
November 26, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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I'm into this. Let's see all the books that have mattered & made a difference.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 1
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The cover of Erica Jong's novel Fear of Flying - 1st edition. Image from Wikipedia.
November 26, 2024 at 2:04 AM
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November in New Brunswick.
Covered bridge at the end of a muddy road under grey November skies. River running through a November landscape of browns, rusts, and bare trees under a grey sky. November landscape. A few last leaves. River running through a November landscape of browns, rusts, and bare trees under a grey sky.
November 16, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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For De Staël, pity meant "shifting concern from individuals to focus it on nations and future generations." It's opposite is "le calcul"- cold political calculation. Not sure about shifting concern from individuals but calcul should not be cold. Reading her always helps me think.
It is during the crisis of the revolution that our ears are incessantly compelled to hear that pity is a puerile sentiment; that it impedes every necessary action, and obstructs the general interest; and that it ought consequently to be banished, together with those effeminate affections which let down the dignity of statesmen and unnerve the vigour of party leaders. The contrary, however, is the truth: it is amidst the disorder of a revolution that pity, which under every other circumstance, is an involuntary emotion, ought to become the rule and guide of our contact." - quote by Germaine de Stael Portrait of Mme de Stael posing with a lyre, with the Temple of Vesta in Tivoli in the background.
November 15, 2024 at 12:33 AM