"It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read."
✒️ #AnitaBrookner, English novelist and art historian, passed away #OTD 10 March 2016. #Art #Literature
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Reserved at the library after reading this post, arrived today, just in time for the weekend. My first Brookner.
#AnitaBrookner #amreading #booksky 📚💙
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...the girl possessed an unusual gift: she brought everyone to the brink of bad behaviour, simply by dint of behaving rather badly herself. One vied for her attention; one raised one's voice; one exaggerated one's own presence. However much one longed to maintain one's usual standards, within a few minutes - half an hour at the most - this was mysteriously n longer possible.
A woman with short dark hair (Anita Brookner) seated in a chair with arms crossed, looking directly at the photographer. She wears a grey sweat and blue and white plaid skirt. Photo by Lucy Anne Dickens; chromogenic print, February 2001, National Portrait Gallery, London
Currently reading "A Private View" (1994) by #AnitaBrookner.
An observation about the contagiousness of bad behaviour:
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[PARUTION - 09/10/2025 - 1ere éd. 1982 (anglais)] « A vingt-neuf ans, Kitty Maule mène une vie monotone entre l'Université, son appartement de Chelsea et la maison londonienne où elle rend chaque week-end visite à ses grands-parents. [...] » www.lalibrairie.com/livres/provi...
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For #spinsterseptember I return to the wonderful writing of #AnitaBrookner with her third novel, Look At Me - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/i...
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My neighbour #AnitaBrookner the writer had brilliantly red hair - quite possibly chemically assisted - until her death at an advanced age
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"Once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten."
― Anita Brookner
#Bluesky #AnitaBrookner #OnceKnown #MemoryAndForgetting #TruthRemains #WisdomQuotes #HumanCondition #PhilosophyOfLife #DepthOfKnowing #BrooknerWisdom #LifeReflections #EmotionalTruth #Unknowable #Hope
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The list of books read in July…
#booksbooksbooks
#jdkirk
#anitabrookner
#jenniegodfrey
#lisacutts
#ednao’brien
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"Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has."
✒️ #AnitaBrookner, English novelist (Hotel du Lac) and art historian, was #BOTD 16 July 1928. #Literature
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"It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read."
✒️ #AnitaBrookner, English novelist and art historian, passed away #OTD 10 March 2016. #Art #Literature
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“The next morning, flat calm.”
WOW. The flat steel of this chapter opener.
I love when a book stops me dead. When it shakes me awake with a single sentence.
#HotelDuLac #AnitaBrookner #Reading
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2nd shelf from the bottom is the (almost) complete #AnitaBrookner - and yes, that is also a framed photo of her on the bottom shelf. You do you, I’ll do me, ok?
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A paperback copy of Leaving Home featuring a young woman in a red cardigan and a white Peter Pan collar
Finished Leaving Home and I admit I’m not as fond of #AnitaBrookner as some of y’all… Yes, her writing very elegant and her psychological insights spot-on but I don’t know… I don’t find her novels compelling
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It’s my turn to choose a title for my Book Group & as this year we’ve decided to revisit old faves & classics as well as new novels, I’ve gone for #LookAtMe by the wonderful #AnitaBrookner a writer who seems to have fallen from fashion, but whose voice never fails to captivate me
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