“George Soper looks from his photographs not to be a nice guy. He looks like someone who was bullied in high school, a nerd, a geek, an apple-polishing dirt-wonk with an unseemly interest in filth and how to make it go away.”

#SundaySentence by Anthony Bourdain, “Typhoid Mary”

I’m really enjoying this book. It’s lovely to read.

“Peppered with the scrapes and bruises, dents and half-healed wounds of what has clearly been a hard fighting life, the oak has the face of an aging football hooligan.”

- A #SundaySentence by Callum Robinson, “Ingrained: The Making of a Craftsman”

“There’s a comfortable feeling of delivering myself into the care of these great, somnolent trains, through the clear glass of which people are staring, as drained, as quiet as invalids.”

“A Sport and a Pastime” by James Salter #SundaySentence

“Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it’s a matter of not knowing where you aren’t—and I don’t care at all where I’m not.”

“The Phantom Tollbooth,” Norton Juster #SundaySentence

No #SundaySentence this week. Just an appreciation for local book stores and local writers. @snugbooksbmore.bsky.social @eedickinson.bsky.social

My husband & I were just talking about the cost of pool memberships. We both belonged to small, local pools as kids, but it feels a little impossible (and maybe not worth it??) for our kids.

My favorite part was the writing by @codyboteler.bsky.social. I could feel the water & smell the sunscreen.

“A fimbriated floral treasure
And a sublimely stalwart soul,
You together shape a garden,
An Eden rendered whole.”

Another #SundaySentence from “The Orchid and The Dandelion” by W. Thomas Boyce, MD

“It was a moment of epiphany that every investigator longs and hopes for—a sudden, vision-changing insight that reconciled an impossibility, like a harmonic musical cadence resolving a troubled, dissonant chord.”

A #SundaySentence by W. Thomas Boyce, M.D., “The Orchid and the Dandelion”

My husband and I love to watch The Gilded Age and immediately read Vulture’s recap of the episode. Alice Burton never misses in her commentary. The show is fine, but for us, the recaps make it a can’t miss event.

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Beautiful!

It’s fantastic book. The quote felt very appropriate for this week.

And another:

“In the years since, recalling that moment when my career seemed to gather its own momentum, independent of me, I have often reflected with my students and trainees how my motto had become, ‘Your life is none of your business.’”

Another good one:

“The airplane began to shake like a squirrel in a dog’s mouth, plummeting and ascending two to three hundred feet in vertiginous falls and leaps, and clearly challenging Ole Bob’s already unsteady, not-quite-Parkinsonian control.”

This #SundaySentence has too many characters for a single post. W. Thomas Boyce, M.D. hits hard with each of his five semicolons.

Book: “The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Sensitive Children Face Challenges and How All Can Thrive”

Finally decided to read this after my 3 year old watched the movie (his first!). It was my husband’s favorite and nostalgia hit him hard.

It’s cute to hear a toddler sing, “Rhyme and Reason reign once more.” It’s less charming to hear him whisper at night, “There’s something funny in my bedroom.”

“Simply, it was easy to stay clean and fresh, and wildly ourselves—a pod of happy baby whales, flipping our lusty flukes and diving deep for gold.”

A #SundaySentence by Maurice Sendak in his introduction of “The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster