Jo Malby Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Writer—health advocate—eco/human rights activist—traveller—artist—observer—journalist—poet—purveyor of love & lover of life with all its challenges (inc. CRPS).

Stray Birds
Rabindranath Tagore
Clouds come floating into my life, No longer to carry rain or usher storm, But to add colour to my sunset sky. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds #poetry #mpy #puestadesol https://t.co/aa0Ic2EMnB
Paperback, 2021
$5.99$2.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wild Places: Selected Stories
Katherine Mansfield
“The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two.” ~ Katherine Mansfield #authors #quotes
Hardcover, 2023
$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Natalie Goldberg
“In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.” ~ Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones #amwriting #writingcommmunity
Paperback, 2016
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations // own photo #españa #goldenhour #quotestoliveby https://t.co/PPcIXMe97h
Paperback, 2003
$11.00$5.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Meditations: With Selected Correspondence
Marcus Aurelius
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations // own photo #españa #goldenhour #quotestoliveby https://t.co/PPcIXMe97h
Paperback, 2011
$9.94$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Perseverance: How To Develop It
H. Besser
“Create a timeline of your #novel’s plot events… this helps you to navigate between the detail-oriented process of drafting scenes and chapters, and the structural challenge of seeing the greater picture.” How to Develop a #Story https://t.co/wJ4hDvICAj @nownovel #writingtips
Paperback, 2023
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
So Fragile Are the Beautiful Things: Haiku and Other Nature Poetry
Luke Levi
the world is absurd but I still cling to its flowers like a bee drunk on spring ~ Luke Levi, @LukeLevi6, So Fragile Are the Beautiful Things: #Haiku and Other Nature #Poetry: https://t.co/Tc1fLKAg1o #NaturePhotography by @photosbydavid1 https://t.co/Tj91r2eKtF #bees #wildlife https://t.co/nmj8sUHeMD
Paperback, 2022
$13.99$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sea, the Sea: Booker Prize Winner
Iris Murdoch
“Time, like the sea, unties all knots.” ~ Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea // #Photography by Sariann Irvin ❥ Support @oceana this #WorldOceansDay and your gift will be doubled, 2X the impact on critical #OceanConservation: https://t.co/F3fE0dffh1 #StandForOceans #SaveOurOceans https://t.co/82Vv330lCA
Paperback, 2001
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Circle of Quiet
Madeleine L'Engle
“We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are, and what our relationship is to life and death, what is essential, and what, despite the arbitrariness of falling beams, will not burn.” ~ Madeleine L’Engle, A Circle of Quiet #bookquote
Paperback, 2014
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Stray Birds
Rabindranath Tagore
Clouds come floating into my life, No longer to carry rain or usher storm, But to add colour to my sunset sky. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds #poetry #mpy #sunsetphotography #puestadesol https://t.co/nwhg4kjTs8
Hardcover, 2018
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book