#kyo maclear

[campsis]

"A Door Is to Open", Kyo Maclear / Julie Mostad

[bestbookcover]

round 3, poll 128

click for better quality & to see the full image. sometimes they get cut off weirdly!

which cover do you like best?

They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran

Noodles on a Bicycle by Kyo Maclear

Voting ended onMar 29

remember, you're voting for the cover, not the author or the book!

[smokefalls]

We are made up of what we’ve remembered but also what we’ve forgotten.

Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear... Perhaps, more strictly, like suspense," Lewis wrote. "Or like waiting; just hanging about waiting for something to happen. It gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down."

Kyo Maclear, Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation (C. S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed) 

[eccentric-ocean]

Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets, Kyo Maclear

[vfdinthewild]

"...which I sensed was connected somehow to the mystery of my Irish paternal grandmother, Carlin Mary Gallagher, a woman who did not reach old age, and about whose life there were very few details."

-from Unearthing by Kyo Maclear, ch 3.

[miscellaneoustenten]

“Not wanting to be left out, Grandpa made lists of his greatest admirers and most fearsome enemies. The cat did the same.”

The Liszts, by Kyo Maclear and Julia Sarda

[underthebeechtrees]

“Or maybe I discovered something more fundamental: worry is a constriction. A mind narrows when it has too much to bear. Art is not born of unwanted constriction. Art wants formless and spacious quiet, anti-social daydreaming, time away from the consumptive volume of everyday life.”

From BIRDS, ART, LIFE by KYO MACLEAR