“It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.” — Emma Donoghue, Room
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“It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.” — Emma Donoghue, Room
#BOTD #EmmaDonoghue #QOTD #MindOverMatter #Quotation #Matters
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‘H Is for Hawk’ Review: Claire Foy and Her Bird Fly High in a Tender but Overlong Grief Drama
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Years ago I LOVED the book ROOM by Emma Donoghue. It blew me away, I cried lots and multiple times during my reading - and never read anything by Donoghue again. Why? Don't know.
Just some weeks ago I picked up The Pull Of The Stars in the library, a novel where we get to spend just a few days during the spanish flu 1918 with nurse Julia Power in a war battled hospital where she's responsible for the maternity ward [or rather: closet] 1/x
🚪💙 What if the only world you knew was a single room? Emma Donoghue’s Room tells a poignant story of love, survival, and hope. Discounts & free downloads at Hearts in Prosa. 🌱📖 #Room #EmmaDonoghue #Survival #FreeBooks
If Miss Raine should die while I'm abroad, Miss Lister instructed her solicitor, do be sure to put in a claim for her estate on my behalf.
All this and more is discussed in the afterword of Emma Donoghue's 'Learned by Heart', about Lister and Raine's teenage relationship.
(These observations courtesy of Mr Absolutive, who actually read the book. I am a mere conduit of knowledge, a window for illumination, not a source of light myself.)
2/2
With ‘#LearnedbyHeart,’ #EmmaDonoghue Tells a #Forgotten #Story about #AnneLister
The #bestselling #author explains why she wrote about an #illicit #teenage #romance between Lister, who’s considered the first modern #lesbian, and her #lover #ElizaRaine.
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