Allison Ellis Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Allison Ellis

"Obviously the thing illuminated cannot be lighter than its illuminator." --Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek #SundaySentence

Allison Ellis

“It is impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.” —Jennifer Finney Boylan, I’M LOOKING THROUGH YOU. #SundaySentence

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"This is the first world, and the last." -- Joy Harjo, Poet Warrior #SundaySentence (And yes, I do know it's Monday but per Harjo's sentiment I don't do media on Sundays, because, as she says, it's "the box that separates the dreamer from the dreaming." #MondaySentence

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'All dreams are true,' said Mrs Severn, 'and but the ghosts of our pasts.' --The Haunting of Alma Fielding by Kate Summerscale #SundaySentence

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"To remember everything is a form of madness." - Deborah Tall (A Family of Strangers) #SundaySentence

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Reading @suleikajaouad's new memoir BETWEEN TWO KINGDOMS, released this week via @randomhouseinc https://t.co/ZAq1vXfdBL

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"Books demand time. Sometimes they take and demand more time than we're ready or yet know how to grant them; they go at their own speed regardless of the cultural speed or slowness of their readers' zeitgeists."--Ali Smith, Artful #SundaySentence

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"My revised sentences aren't jumping with vigor, partly because the material I'm trying to knead is shapeless dough... Don't get caught holding a bag full of abstract nouns. You'll sink to the bottom of the lake and never be seen again." --William Zinsser (On Writing Well)

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Lovely @seattletimes review of @pam_houston's newest book, Deep Creek. Can't wait to read! https://t.co/WFYgwb5Pv2

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"... to read a writer whose work is entirely different from another, though not necessarily more like your own, is a difference that will remind you of how many rooms there are in the house of art." --Francine Prose, Reading Like a Writer #SundaySentence