leighlife: Liz's flowers

A letter to a local magazine won an armful of flowers for Liz to celebrate her cheerfulness and managing to live on her own at 99. She was bewildered by it all but delighted, "Everyone is so good to me."

It was all very touching.

Recent reading: alphabetical rather than most recent thanks to Blogger.

A Vision of the World by John Cheever
Assembly by Natasha Brown
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Body (the) Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk
Dept. Of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Diary of a Film by Niven Govinden
Fell (The) by Sarah Moss
Foster by Claire Keegan
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Hummingbird (The) by Sandro Veronese
Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flyn
Letters to Camodo by Edmund de Waal
Man who saw Everything by Deborah Levy
Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton Burnett
Meadowlands by Louise Glück
Medals and Prizes by John Metcalf
Nothing to be Frightened of by Julian Barnes
Patch Work by Claire Wilcox
Poems by Louise Glück
Promise (The) by Damon Galgut
Questionnaire by Max Frisch
Re-education by Lucy Kellaway
Real Estate by Deborah Levy
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
Small Things Like This by Claire Keegan
Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny
Summerwater by Sarah Moss
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy
The Death of Francis Bacon by Max Porter
The Grassling by EJ Burnett
The Leopard by Tomasi de Lampedusa
The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts
The Sea in not made of Water by Adam Nicholson
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
Thin Places by Kerri ni Dochartaigh
Things I Don’t Want to Know by Deborah Levy
This Happy by Niamh Campbell
Wild Iris by Louise Glück
You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz

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Monday, 20 July 2009

Liz's flowers

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