Melinda Jane Harrison 🌸🌿🦉🐉
@madlyjane.bsky.social
I write a lot. Read more. Writing the Fantastical where the imaginary and the real have always coexisted.
Blog: girlsandgoblins.blogspot.com
Blog: girlsandgoblins.blogspot.com
Perhaps the "first true surrealist photographer in the United States." He was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana and later moved to New Orleans. Self-educated. Highly imaginative. Inimitable.
August 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Perhaps the "first true surrealist photographer in the United States." He was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana and later moved to New Orleans. Self-educated. Highly imaginative. Inimitable.
"She was the real deal. She lived her art. She looked like her art. She had the vocabulary of art." George Lange on Francesca Woodman, 1976. #purpose
August 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"She was the real deal. She lived her art. She looked like her art. She had the vocabulary of art." George Lange on Francesca Woodman, 1976. #purpose
“ConaLee, there is no forever. We are on our walk and the day is fine.”
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch
(This is the best book I have read in years. I wept tears of joy while reading it. I am rereading it again right now.)
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch
(This is the best book I have read in years. I wept tears of joy while reading it. I am rereading it again right now.)
August 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
“ConaLee, there is no forever. We are on our walk and the day is fine.”
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch
(This is the best book I have read in years. I wept tears of joy while reading it. I am rereading it again right now.)
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch
(This is the best book I have read in years. I wept tears of joy while reading it. I am rereading it again right now.)
Faulkner is the USA's greatest writer in my opinion, along with Steinbeck, and Melville. Faulkner had acute psychological insights into human behavior.
August 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Faulkner is the USA's greatest writer in my opinion, along with Steinbeck, and Melville. Faulkner had acute psychological insights into human behavior.
I can't believe how much I love A Study in Drowning. I could "comp" this book, too, and all these years my son said to read it and I had it and never read it. He knows me. And Effy is a great heroine, I have to force myself to put the book down. Making notes in it as I read.🥰
August 2, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I can't believe how much I love A Study in Drowning. I could "comp" this book, too, and all these years my son said to read it and I had it and never read it. He knows me. And Effy is a great heroine, I have to force myself to put the book down. Making notes in it as I read.🥰
The large white dinner plate hibiscus. 2025
July 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The large white dinner plate hibiscus. 2025
My newest hibiscus. It's a smaller bush plant. 2025
July 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
My newest hibiscus. It's a smaller bush plant. 2025
July 2025. Swamp hibiscus aka rose mallows. They get all. Over 5 feet here.
July 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
July 2025. Swamp hibiscus aka rose mallows. They get all. Over 5 feet here.
Coneflower. July.
July 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Coneflower. July.
“But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
#BookChatWeekly
— Rainer Maria Rilke
#BookChatWeekly
June 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
“But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
#BookChatWeekly
— Rainer Maria Rilke
#BookChatWeekly
He's so smart.
June 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
He's so smart.
Hibiscus moscheutos. "Swamp Rose Mallow" June 21, 2025. (my favorite flower)
June 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Hibiscus moscheutos. "Swamp Rose Mallow" June 21, 2025. (my favorite flower)
GIfts from my children for birthday last week. I love Pynchon and have always wanted to read this monster of a book. Note I got The Companion to Mason and Dixon, too I'll need all the help I can get with this book. Reading in late August though. My reading pile is 12 books including these. 😂
June 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
GIfts from my children for birthday last week. I love Pynchon and have always wanted to read this monster of a book. Note I got The Companion to Mason and Dixon, too I'll need all the help I can get with this book. Reading in late August though. My reading pile is 12 books including these. 😂
Re-reading now. ❤️ The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.
June 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Re-reading now. ❤️ The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.
Some reading.
May 17, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Some reading.
Finishing up Station Eleven, which I love, and what's up next?— Reading this delightful novel by Carrie Vaughn, The Naturalist Society. Birds. History. Magic. Romance. What's not to like! I love birds....I believe there is some travel and exploration, too. #Reading #CarrieVaughn
March 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Finishing up Station Eleven, which I love, and what's up next?— Reading this delightful novel by Carrie Vaughn, The Naturalist Society. Birds. History. Magic. Romance. What's not to like! I love birds....I believe there is some travel and exploration, too. #Reading #CarrieVaughn
So many good books long listed for The Women's Prize this year! The Ministry of Time is on that list and I highly recommend it. It was one of my favorite books in 2024. A book I will reread over and over. #WomensPrize
March 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
So many good books long listed for The Women's Prize this year! The Ministry of Time is on that list and I highly recommend it. It was one of my favorite books in 2024. A book I will reread over and over. #WomensPrize
Pre-ordered. Every since I read Imaginary Girls by Nova, I've pre-ordered all her books. She writes incredible prose. The best. Her books are often filled with highly developed characters and mysterious surprises. Check her out. #favoriteauthors
February 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Pre-ordered. Every since I read Imaginary Girls by Nova, I've pre-ordered all her books. She writes incredible prose. The best. Her books are often filled with highly developed characters and mysterious surprises. Check her out. #favoriteauthors
Now reading. Divine Rivals has beautiful prose and a good, strong plot. Young Adult novels.
February 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Now reading. Divine Rivals has beautiful prose and a good, strong plot. Young Adult novels.
Better late than ever. Last year's darling. Fiction. Next read. Looking forward to it.
February 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Better late than ever. Last year's darling. Fiction. Next read. Looking forward to it.
Research reading, next. Mirrors and some work on asylums.
February 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Research reading, next. Mirrors and some work on asylums.
Cooked grits. A southern specialty. Irish Butter though. 😂😋
January 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Cooked grits. A southern specialty. Irish Butter though. 😂😋
“Words are ancient; visions and echoes cling to them like barnacles on the whale’s back. You speak words used in poetry & song since the beginning of the world...Here, you will learn...to speak as if you had never listened, never spoken before.”
― Patricia A. McKillip #bookologythursday
― Patricia A. McKillip #bookologythursday
January 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
“Words are ancient; visions and echoes cling to them like barnacles on the whale’s back. You speak words used in poetry & song since the beginning of the world...Here, you will learn...to speak as if you had never listened, never spoken before.”
― Patricia A. McKillip #bookologythursday
― Patricia A. McKillip #bookologythursday