Heartbreak Reads - A Week's Worth of Weepies
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One can't help bumping into Margaret Atwood in a search for good things to read. Happy Endings is easy to find online. I strongly recommend you do just that.
In the meantime, here are a couple of trailers from filmed versions of her works.
The Handmaid's Tale
Alias Grace
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10 Dorothy Parker Poems For A Perfectly Bitter Valentine’s Day
Dorothy Parker - what a lady! What a life! So, click through on the link above to read her verse and/or click below to listen to renderings from some of those poems.
Symptom Recital
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We have Valentine's Day looming balefully over our shoulders - a morose day for the recently single and other lonely hearts. Hopefully, the below recommendations from The Guardian will help tide the hours.
If Valentine’s Day is an unwelcome reminder of what has become of your love life, you can find solace at the bookshop. Here are 10 literary highlights for the lovelorn
- The Guardian
"a memoir about hanging on when all is lost"
"the story of Alice, a young woman in a coma"
"boils with loneliness and rebellion"
“Oops, I married a sociopath”
"Brontë’s last novel and for many her finest"
"Truly wonderful."
Tomorrow we take you back to the first day of the theme on Writer Rites - the blog has been slow to catch up with the Page!
And so: a Mahasweta Devi short story, nineteen Rupi Kaur poems and 21 Books To Read When You're Going Through Heartbreak.
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