love and romance
what if…
When You Reach Me
what if…? Then we…
if then
I Like It When…
what if?
you, me, us!
This Is My Brain in Love
· “She felt her own essence being pulled smaller and smaller, like a stream of spun glass pulled and stretched until only a shimmering illusion remained. No, the flow spins finer.She felt so small and ecstatic.Alabama was in love.” —Zelda Fitzgerald save me the waltz1932
· Rebecca Stead When You Reach Me Winner of the 2010 Newbery Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Children’s Literature. The book was inspired by and related to the 1963 Newbery Prize-winning book by Madeleine L’Engle. wrinkles of time.
· On her website and in her TED Talks, Dr. Helen Fisher, bioanthropologist, senior fellow at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, and author in 2005, said: Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love, says humans are wired for love. Brain scans by Fisher and her colleagues found that elevated levels of dopamine and oxytocin produce feelings of attraction and attachment, while elevated levels of testosterone and estrogen shut off parts of the brain that control rational behavior. Serotonin levels, on the other hand, are reduced and are comparable to levels found in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. I feel like
Title: Samantha Berger, Mike Curato, Rebecca Stead, Rebecca Kai Dottrich, Fred Koehler, Kate Hope Day, Mary Murphy, Randall Munroe, Erin Zhang, IW Gregorio
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love and romance
crooked kind of perfect
good kind of trouble
beautiful and stupid effort
me and you
The Splendid and the Vile
things you shouldn’t love
· “I may be heaven-sent, but I am not perfect.” –Cynthia Raitich Smith eternity,2009
· “You will never be perfect, but perfection is overrated. Perfection is boring.” – Tina Fey bossy pants,2011
· Before toymaker Corner launched the board game Trouble in 1965, they called it Frustration. Trouble is based on his early 20th century German game, a name similar to Parcheesi, which loosely translates to “Don’t argue”. During World War II, brothers Paul and Frank Corner fled Czechoslovakia to America to escape the Nazis. First Paul in his 1940, then Frank in his 1942. They founded Corner Brothers in New York City, manufacturing wooden beaded purses before switching to toys. After World War II, when plastic became cheaply available, Paul Corner commissioned engineer Albert Stubbman to convert the toy factory from wood to plastic production. Stubbmann’s name appears in more than 20 of his patents for at least 50 of his products, including his Pop-O-Matic dice his device in the middle of the trouble board. Fred Kroll’s obituary on August 6, 2003 credits him as the creator of Trouble as well as the 1970s games His Hungry Hungry His Hippos. Trouble was eventually acquired by Milton Bradley, who was acquired by Hasbro in 1984.
· History of Eric Larson The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance during the Blitz During the Nazi bombing campaign during World War II from May 1940 to May 1941, using diaries and public records, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his leader’s first year. is chasing
Title: Linda Urban / Lisa Moore Ramée / Hank Green / Kristy Dempsey and Christopher Denise / Erik Larson / Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka
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art
Whisper
egg
watermelon seeds
mundane art
small beautiful things
· “Pay attention to what you pay attention to.” –Amy Krouse Rosenthal, @missamykr, March 15, 2013
· “For example, a flock of children roaming in a crosswind in December. A friendly matchshare under a crash-tilted lamppost. A frozen clock visited by birds in a tall tower. Cold water from a tin jug.” Toweling off clingy shirts after June rains Pearls, rags, buttons, tresses of rugs, beer bubbles Someone’s kind wishes; Someone has noticed.” –George Saunders, Lincoln of Bardo2017
· “She was so excited and delighted by the little things, fingers crossed before distant and unpredictable events, like tasting a new flavor of ice cream or dropping a letter in the mailbox. – Jhumpa Lahiri sick interpreter1999
· Cheryl Strayed wrote an essay small beautiful things As a free advice columnist for an online literary magazine rampus, under the pseudonym “Sugar”. When she stopped writing the column in 2012, she revealed that she was the author of a best-selling memoir. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest TrailWhilst hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, Strayed brought along an “old friend” of Adrian Rich. common language dreams.
Title: Pamela Zagarenski / Geraldo Valério / Greg Pizzoli / Wendell Berry / Cheryl Strayed
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biography and memoir
my brief body history
salt fatty acid heat
brain on fire
wrinkles of time
dinosaur bones
negotiation
leave out the tragic part
· “I finally realized what my body was: a personality delivery system specifically designed to carry my character from place to place, now and for years to come.” Anna Quindlen many candles, many cakes2012
· Madeleine L’Engle wrinkles of time Before Farrar, Straus and Giroux published it in 1962, it was rejected by 26 publishers who claimed it was too difficult and detailed for children.
· wrinkles of time As do all Snoopy-typed novels by Charles Schulz, it opens with “It was a dark and stormy night.” peanuts comic strip.Both L’Engle and Schultz chose the opening sentences from their 1830 novels. Paul Clifford Because this phrase exemplified bad writing by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
· This line is commemorated annually in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for Worst First Sentence in a Non-Existent Novel. I learned that this line had existed for many years of donkeys, but had suffered damage and had been rendered, before I decided to enjoy it. [Bulwer-Lytton’s] A more widely read author of his time than Charles Dickens, he is synonymous with bad writing. ”
· Charles Dickens was an editor and friend of Bulwer-Lytton. He named one of his sons, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, after him.
· Bulwer-Lytton is also credited with the phrase “The pen is mightier than the sword,” uttered by Cardinal Richelieu in Bulwer-Lytton’s 1839 play. Richelieu: Or Conspiracy, a play in five actsThe clergy discover plans to murder him, but are unable to respond by violent means due to his vocation.
Title: Billy-Ray Belcourt / Samin Nosrat and Wendy MacNaughton / Susannah Cahalan / Madeleine L’Engle / Bob Barner / Destiny O. Birdsong / Dave Kindred
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politics, history, current affairs
world news
small fires everywhere
smoke and ash
smoke and mirrors
big little lies
Wow no thanks.
Newsmaker:
we are better than this
· “But we have to tell our story and not get hung up on it.” –Ta-Nehisi Coates, water dancer2019
· “People are entitled to their opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.” –James W. Lowen, The lie my teacher told me: all of you American history textbooks are wrong1995
· “Lies are easily detected because there are two types of lies. Some lie with short legs and others with long noses. There is one.” – Carlo Collodi Adventures of Pinocchio1883
· “Of course, there is the saying, ‘He lies like a witness’.” – Dmitri Shostakovich, Testimony: Memoirs of Dmitry Shostakovich, Related and edited by Solomon Volkoff, 1979. Julian Burns chose this quote by Russian composer Shostakovich as the epigraph for his 1991 novel about three Londoners. Talking It OverA wife, a husband, and an old friend of the husband’s tell the same story from three different points of view.
· “Liar, liar! My pants are on fire!” So far, the story about the origin of this playground expression is false, including that it comes from the poem “The Liar” by William Blake. known, and the creator of this phrase is still unknown. Linguist Barry Popik notes that the expression was in use well before his 1920s. A June 2010 entry on the etymology blog, big applenote the version dated 13 February 1922. chicago daily tribuneunder the heading “Do you remember the old days?” We children were screaming, “You’re a liar!” You are) a liar! your pants are on fire Your tongue is as long as a telegraph wire.”
Title: Paulette Jiles / Celeste Ng / Avir Mukherjee / Neil Gaiman / Liane Moriarty / Samantha Irby / Francesco Marconi / Elijah Cummings with James Dale
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excerpt from Spine Poems: An Eclectic Collection of Discovered Poems By Annette Dauphin Simon. Copyright © 2022. Available from Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
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