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My name is Joanna and I currently live in London.

This blog is a tool for me to express my thoughts about books I have read, places I have visited and experiences I have lived through.

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The Sundays of Jean Dezert by Jean de La Ville de Mirmont (1886 – 1914)

Have a gentle and peaceful new year 2022🌸

Have a gentle week and peaceful Christmas break ahead❤️

“I may disappear leaving behind me no worldly possessions - just a few old socks and love letters, and my windows overlooking Notre-Dame for all of you to enjoy, and my little rag and bone shop of the heart whose motto is 'Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.' I may disappear leaving no forwarding address, but for all you know I may still be walking among you on my vagabond journey around the world."

To those who need some love today, I am sending you lots of hugs ❤️

Blue Skinned Gods by SJ Sindu is a compelling, thoughtful coming of age story exploring identity, belief systems, perception of the Other, sexuality, family relationships spanning across two continents, different cultures and traditions. Storytelling is beautiful, extremely moving and emphatic.

“A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no trace that you were ever there. The roads you went down yesterday are full of different people now, none of them knows who you are. In the room you slept in last night a stranger lies in the bed. Dust covers over your footprints, the marks of your fingers are wiped off the door, from the floor and table the bits and pieces of evidence that you might have dropped are swept up and thrown away and they never come back again. The very air closes behind you like water and soon your presence, which felt so weighty and permanent, has completely gone. Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.”

Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym published in 1977 (and nominated for the Booker Prize) is a poignant exploration of loneliness.

Happy Thursday 🌺❤️

Wishing you a peaceful week ahead 🍁

Have a peaceful weekend ahead ❤️

🍁I hope your week is going well

Have a blessed Samhain!

🌺 A few snapshots of London in Autumn 🍁

“Today , I don’t exist. Tomorrow, I probably won’t, either. (…)Today is the first day of school.”

“It comforted me to think that even if you sometimes have memory gaps, all the details of your life are written somewhere in invisible ink.”

‘Where do you start someone’s story when every life has more than one thread and what we call birth is not the only beginning, nor is death exactly an end?’

The Memory Monster by an Israeli writer Yishai Sarid.

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