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[briannyssey]

🌹!!

why thank you! From the very first page:

Meanwhile talented would-be musicians plucked strings and blew reeds until their lips and fingers cracked and bled. The Cloakhouse had lined its countless practice rooms with cork and teak (the cost of this alone could beggar duchies) and pleasingly tended hedges muffled the rehearsing students, but all the soundproofing in the world could not quiet that place.

[briannyssey]

that is such a lovely selfie -- there's a sense of joy & natural unguarded life, that's so hard to capture

my first thought was it's the exact OPPOSITE of that classic painting where a nude woman is seen laying on a chesterfield, her back to the viewer, and she's holding up a hand mirror to show her face -- i think it's called "Vanity" but i wasnt able to find it on a search :/ anyway that painting is very very viewer-focused, like she is posed for someone else, she is holding up the mirror for someone else, the angle means she wouldn't even be able to see herself in it. everything she's doing is for someone else's pleasure or design. ick

anyway your selfie looks like the reverse of that, like a modern reply: this is what a person looks like when they are NOT performing, when they're taking joy & pride in themselves, for themselves. having fun!!

i dont want this to be numbered and i cant remove it :( tumblr why are you like this

this is such an incredibly sweet thing to say, im gonna treasure it oh my lord

[mumblingsage]

(psst - do you have a goodreads? i'm always looking for people who have good taste so i can add their books to my neverdiminishing "to read" file)

Hi there! I have a Goodreads (two, actually, one under my legal name and one under my penname, T.C. Mill) but I have fallen very far behind on updating them, along with my lists on Bookshop.org. Meanwhile, recently I've been using the #Sage reads tag on this blog to make a better record of what I read and what I think of it. Some of these tumblr posts may migrate to Goodreads down the line!

(I've looked at StoryGraph as a non-Amazon-owned alternative, but to be honest their 'checklist' approach probably wouldn't work for me long term: I'd get stuck trying to decide if a book does or not contain XYZ, if it's character-focused or not, fast-paced or slow, and so on.)

Also, can you tell me more about your book? I saw your recent post with the proof but wasn't sure if you had a tag on your blog for it!