Mariam reads

[almariamreads]

Anyone else in a reading slump? I haven't been able to really enjoy a book since I finished Then There Were None. But, I'm starting Macbeth by jo nesbo and hopefully that will get me out of this dreaded slump. P. S. I love how the scarf looks a shade of sunset❤️ #bookreview #biblophile #booklover #deuxbleusbooks #shetellsastorychallenge #sunset #jonesbo #macbeth #harryhole #styleitwithmariam #allthelightwecannotsee #bookphotography #creativebookstagram #unitedbookstagram #readersofinstagram  #readstagram #middleeastreads #bookstagramfeature #purewowbookclub #bookstr #bookaesthetic #postitfortheaesthetic #booklover #bookclub #book #bookshelf https://www.instagram.com/p/B_cdH6AguWJ/?igshid=fo7h0zy15cgb

[almariamreads]

It's my birthday! So here are some things I love in no particular order: 1- cute candles 2- books (esp the @panmacmillan, have you seen these golden sprayed edges?) 3- babybreath flowers❤️ 4- linen dresses #birthday #shetellsastorychallenge #vintagewatch #booktography #h&m #candles #booksandcandles #booksandflowers #deuxbleusbooks #styleitwithmariam #brownfeed #browns #bookphotography #bookaholic #biblophile #bookster #booksarethebest #golden #goldenfeed #goldensparkle #bd #charlesdickens #bigbooks #bigbook #linen #linendresses #linendress https://www.instagram.com/p/B_CWSldFspr/?igshid=1qhrs8h73vld5

[almariamreads]

'I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.' Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis Share one quote that made you buy a new book. Or one of your favourite quotes in your current read! https://www.instagram.com/p/B-y0pHOAUsy/?igshid=12j6n54kp230w

[weltenwellen]

“The feeling of leaving / your body instead of the room”

— Elaine Kahn, “ROMANCE,” Romance or the End: Poems 

[ophanic]

emily dickinson / van gogh’s bedroom (1888)

[adrasteiax]

“In March the earth remembers its own name. Everywhere the plates of snow are cracking. The rivers begin to sing. In the sky the winter stars are sliding away; new stars appear as, later, small blades of grain will shine in the dark fields. And the name of every place is joyful.”

— Mary Oliver, from Worm Moon in “Twelve Moons”

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“This is the wonderful thing about art: It can bring back the dead.”

— Lynn Emanuel, from “The Sleeping,” featured in “When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women,”

[qvotable]

“You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.”

— Audre Lorde

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“I am so tired I could lie down among the trees until I was nothing,”

— Lynn Emanuel, from “After Your Letter of Elegant Goodbye,” featured in “When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women,”

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“Mother, protect me. I’m one uncontrollable hunger away from ruin.”

— Lynn Emanuel, from “Single Girl. One Room Flat,” featured in “When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women,”

[almariamreads]

Another one for far from the madding crowd, because I can't stop thinking about it. Also have you watched (Kalus)? I did and I loved it! So if you have any more movie recs name then down below! #farfromthemaddingcrowd #tomhardy #thomashardy #books #readersofegypt #deuxbleusbooks #styleitwithmariam #library https://www.instagram.com/p/B9ESOjVgbYm/?igshid=1xfn4yxb0v9ii

[almariamreads]

Have been very engrossed in far from the madding crowd the last couple of weeks. I finished it. I loved it. A favourite. Read it. . #farfromthemaddingcrowd #embroidery #flowers #booksandembroidery #books #bookquote #classics #classicbooks #readmoreclassics #booklover #bookclub #deuxbleusbooks #styleitwithmariam #readersofegypt #middleeastreads #feelfreefeed #babybreathbouquet #booklover #bookclub #bookphotography #bookaholic #favouritebook #newfav #newfavourite #tomhardy #booknerd #bookstagramfeature https://www.instagram.com/p/B8ybIsnA7D4/?igshid=192zw4hbhsoze

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“The first thing you have to learn is the art of observation.”

— Bertolt Brecht, from Poems: 1913-1958; “Actors on the Art of Observation,”

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“Fragrance and melancholy. A dead garden in January.”

— Georg Trakl, from Poems, Prose: A Bilingual Edition; “Sebastian In Dream,”

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“The world had a smell, of roses, or of terror,”

— Mary Oliver, from Devotions: Selected Poems; “A Mink, Jointless as Heat,”

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“Blanketed by darkness and bathed by light.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Book of Images: Poems; “The Storm,”

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“I have always loved sorrow and sadness, but for myself, myself alone,”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, from “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man,” wr. c. 1877