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Eye candy for a #SilasHouse broadside soon to be printed by October Letterpress - available in September. Yet to come text from “Lark Ascending” - a new novel by Silas House, #AlgonquinPublishing out September 27, 2022.

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[quotemadness]

“Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.”

— Silas House

[goodeveningmistermouse]

Asher feels an immense sorrow, as if the ocean is inside his body, pushing and pulsing to escape.

[stay-close]

Now I had seen the grief of the two strongest people I knew. And somehow, crying made them seem even stronger to me. It was better to cry than to suck it up and go around conjuring hate in your heart.

— Silas House, Eli the Good

[thebookquotes]

Forgiveness is the easiest thing in the world [...]. All you do is just decide to do it, and then it's done. Instantly you feel better, like pushing aside a quilt that is too heavy for sleeping. Forgetting is the hard part.

— Silas House, Southernmost

[dustybookcorner]

“Caleb, you’re making a choice here.”

“What choice?”

“The choice to be mean-hearted,” he said, and clicked off the call.

[soulscribe-corner]

There is a cool that sometimes comes down over the mountain in the evening. The day slips away slowly, so quietly and secretly that no one really notices until it is gone. The peach light stands like steam along the horizon, changing the shape of things. Night does not come quickly, does not even give a hint of its coming, and for a while, there is just the cool, when there is no night and no day, stretched out like ice. No click ticking away the minutes, no movement of the earth, nothing growing or changing.

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"Daylight is the time God moves about the best. I've heard people say that they liked to watch the world come awake. But the world is always awake, sunlight just makes it seeable. In that moment when the light hits the mountain, when the sun cracked through the sky big enough to make a noise if our ears could hear it, I would be aware again of all the things that had been going on throughout the night. Morning just made it easier to hear. Light takes away muteness."

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[lakecountylibrary]

Book Rec: Lark Ascending by Silas House

What an astounding take on the state of the world: The setting dystopian yet fully recognizable, the words lyrical and fully resonating with the soul of the reader.

Silas House writes a book of warnings—climate change, tyranny, religious zealots and intolerance come to a catastrophic peak.

Even with all the trauma, House gives us Lark and Seamus and a glimpse into the resilience of humanity. The message that grace can remain as long as we fight looms through Lark's exhausting journey.

There are so many poignant quotes from this work but I hope you read it and pick your own, and then pick the better path.

See more of Beth's recs

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The Hardy Tree, London, England

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Favorite place. Photo by Silas House

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Today marks 20 years since Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was published! JK Rowling took a moment to thank her fans and introduce today’s celebratory Twitter emoji!

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Shine on me-Dan Auerbach

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My favorite place has the best sunsets. Photo by Silas House

[quoted-books]

“Did you ever want to be a writer?” “No,” she said…“I only wanted to be a reader.”

Ann Patchett, Commonwealth (via quoted-books)

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Thank you, Denis Johnson. Rest In Peace. http://ift.tt/2rYhgsE

[silas-house]

TRAIN DREAMS is a favorite novel of mine.