Category: Book Discussion
Notes, thoughts, feedback from JMRL book groups
“All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. It was the nature of things”
“A Cavalier Evaluation”
“We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.”
“Though we have both suffered misfortune, we are lucky to have spent our whole lives together”
Same Page 2019: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
“Moby-Dick of the tea world”
“Times have changed. But not times only.”
“Sooner or later, though, no matter where in the world we live, we must join the diaspora, venturing beyond our biological family to find our logical one, the one that actually makes sense for us.”
“I had Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi, the four of us sharing the weight of growing up Girl in Brooklyn, as though it was a bag of stones we passed among ourselves saying, Here. Help me carry this.”
“Jefferson’s advice on how to win friends and influence people did not have much appeal for a pugnacious John Adams.”
“Sometimes, you will feel as if you have rowed right off the planet and are now rowing among the stars.”
