thenextpage(@thenextpage22) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Finished


Stella pressed her thumb against the edge of the table to assure herself this was a moment she was living through- as in the moment before a faint she seemed to be looking at everything down a darkening telescope.

Finished #TheHeatoftheDay
#ElizabethBowen

Stella pressed her thumb against the edge of the table to assure herself this was a moment she was living through- as in the moment before a faint she seemed to be looking at everything down a darkening telescope.
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Niamh Dowdall(@dowdalln) 's Twitter Profile Photo

died 1973: “To present an appearance, a whole, that shall be not only pleasing but significant […] is at least as difficult technically […] as the writing of a book that should be fit to be published, or the painting of a picture that is to be seen” (1937)

#ElizabethBowen died #OTD 1973: “To present an appearance, a whole, that shall be not only pleasing but significant […] is at least as difficult technically […] as the writing of a book that should be fit to be published, or the painting of a picture that is to be seen” (1937)
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Started

She had asked him to go away and to stay away: that was the best he could do….What did she expect him to do? She expected him to do whatever he did do: she had no idea what he did, but surely he did do something?-why not get on with that?

Started #TheHeatoftheDay
#ElizabethBowen
She had asked him to go away and to stay away: that was the best he could do….What did she expect him to do? She expected him to do whatever he did do: she had no idea what he did, but surely he did do something?-why not get on with that?
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Alex(@AlexBibliophile) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Started reading this some time ago and gave up. Picked it up again a week ago and really enjoying. Wonderfully atmospheric and fantastic descriptions of WW2 London and life (not that I remember that time!) Will definitely read her other works.

Started reading this some time ago and gave up. Picked it up again a week ago and really enjoying. Wonderfully atmospheric and fantastic descriptions of WW2 London and life (not that I remember that time!)  Will definitely read her other works.
#TheHeatOfTheDay
#ElizabethBowen
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Author Diane Parrish(@dianesparrish) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Spring is taking its time to arrive, but I can feel it in the air and it promises to be a lovely season once it’s here. 😀 What do you think Spring 2023 will bring?

Spring is taking its time to arrive, but I can feel it in the air and it promises to be a lovely season once it’s here. 😀 What do you think Spring 2023 will bring?

#Spring2023 #quoteoftheweek #quotes #ElizabethBowen #writerslife #waitingforspring
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Peter Parker(@PParkerWriting) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet-when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.”
Elizabeth Bowen, died 22 February 1973

“The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet-when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.” 
Elizabeth Bowen, died 22 February 1973

#elizabethbowen #innocence
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“Experience isn’t interesting until it begins to repeat itself — in fact, till it does that, it hardly *is* experience.”
Elizabeth Bowen, born 7 June 1899

“Experience isn’t interesting until it begins to repeat itself — in fact, till it does that, it hardly *is* experience.” 
Elizabeth Bowen, born 7 June 1899

#elizabethbowen #experience #novelist
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Peter Parker(@PParkerWriting) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“There were readers who could expect no more from life, and just dared to look in books to see how much they had missed.”
Elizabeth Bowen, died 22 February 1973

“There were readers who could expect no more from life, and just dared to look in books to see how much they had missed.” 
Elizabeth Bowen, died 22 February 1973

#elizabethbowen #reading #books
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