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But how shall I deal with myself? What shall I do with myself all my life?
— Daddy's Gone A-Hunting by Penelope Mortimer
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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting by Penelope Mortimer, 1958
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Another great quote from The Pumpkin Eater
#one of my fav books#bookblr#the pumpkin eater#penelope mortimer#femcel#poetry#dark academia#light academia#lana del ray#the bell jar#my year of rest and relaxation#girlblogger
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Books Read in June:
1). The Pumpkin Eater (Penelope Mortimer)
2). In the Woods (Tana French)
3). White on White (Aysegül Savas)
4). The Lost Properties of Love (Sophie Ratcliffe)
5). Exteriors (Annie Ernaux)
6). All the Beloved Ghosts (Alison MacLeod)
7). The Queen of the Night (Alexander Chee)
8). The Manningtree Witches (A.K. Blakemore)
9). Brooklyn (Colm Tóibín)
#booklr#booklist#my literary life#adult booklr#penelope mortimer#tana french#aysegul savas#sophie ratcliffe#annie ernaux#alison macleod#alexander chee#a.k. blakemore#colm toibin
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#1962Club - some previous reads!
As is my habit during our Reading Weeks, I always like to pick out some previous reads from the year in question; and when I made my list of potential 1962 books, it turned out to be one from which I’d actually read quite a bit! Some of these titles are from pre-blog times, and I’ll pick out a few which have featured on the Ramblings. All of which goes to show just what a great year we chose this…
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#1962Club#anthony powell#doris lessing#john le carré#john steinbeck#madeleine l&039;engle#penelope mortimer#previous reads#Simenon#solzhenitsyn#the garden of the finzi-continis
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Winding Up the Week #226
Winding Up the Week #226
An end of week recap
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
– Charlotte Brontë
This is a weekly post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep readers abreast of various book-related…
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#Books#Charlotte Brontë#JL George#Penelope Mortimer#Reading#Spanish & Portuguese Literature Month 2022#Summer Reading
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reading 4 books at once, soon it will be 5 if i don’t finish one of them by this week.
#wolf hall by hilary mantel (which i started yesterday)#franny and zooey by jd salinger (almost done with this but i want to savor it)#the passion according to g.h. by clarice lispector (the stream of consciousness style of writing makes this incredibly dense but i love it)#saturday lunch with the brownings and other stories by penelope mortimer (short story collection. yk how it is)#number 5 will be a romcom i have to read for this irl book club im in. they keep choosing books i have little to zero interest in 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭#but i want to attend the meetings so i’ll have to at least try reading it lmfao. L 👎🏻#diary
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The Bookshop (2017)
England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy). As Florence's obstacles amass and bear suspicious signs of a local power struggle, she is forced to ask: is there a place for a bookshop in a town that may not want one? Based on Penelope Fitzgerald's acclaimed novel and directed by Isabel Coixet (Learning to Drive), The Bookshop is an elegant yet incisive rendering of personal resolve, tested in the battle for the soul of a community.
"Old age is not the same thing as historical interest. Otherwise you and I would be far more interesting than we are."
#The bookshop#2017#film#cinema#based on a novel#Penelope Fitzgerald#Isabel Coixet#Emily Mortimer#relationships#England#society#literature#1950s#drama#just watched
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"Coming Home" (1998) - Giles Foster
Films I've watched in 2022 (75/210)
Full film:
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#films watched in 2022#Coming Home#Keira Knightley#Joanna Lumley#David McCallum#Penelope Keith#Katie Ryder Richardson#Peter O'Toole#Anneliese Uhlig#Paul Bettany#Emily Mortimer#George Asprey
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Showdown 2k24: Round 2
Everyone has been split into groups of 16 roughly by how well known they are and seeded within those groups to determin matches. There will be 16 polls posted every day (so two of the groups) except Friday. At the end of the round groups will be paired up and re-seeded ready for next time
the submission form for contestant propaganda is still open, you can find it here.
ROUND 1
Day 4
Mary Shelley vs Ikalla
Claudia Winkleman vs Cinder
Hector vs Sibling Different
Ruth Leonidas vs Susan Who
Alan Turing vs Peter Summerfield
John Lennon vs Dorothy (The Wonderful Doctor of Oz)
Tom Campbell vs Barusa
Peter Cushing vs Alison Cheney
Brian the Ood vs Penelope Gate
Hattie Munroe vs Gabby Gonzalez
Splinx vs Grayla
V.M.McCrimmon vs Patience
Andy Davidson vs Dormouse
The Squire vs Weeping Angel (Origins)
Cindy Wu vs Guinevere Winchester
Child Master (The Then and the Now) vs Koschei
previous and future days under the cut
Day 1
Jamie McCrimmon vs Sergeant Benton WINNER: Jamie McCrimmon
Vicki Pallister vs Zoe Heriot WINNER: Zoe Heriot
Barbara Wright vs Steven Taylor WINNER: Barbara Wright
Victoria Waterfield vs Sarah-Jane Smith WINNER: Sarah-Jane Smith
Jo Grant vs The Brigadier WINNER: Jo Grant
Ian Chesterton vs Leela WINNER: Leela
Liz Shaw vs Polly Wright WINNER: Liz Shaw
Dodo Chaplet vs Susan Foreman WINNER: Susan Foreman
Charley Pollard vs Mark Seven WINNER: Charley Pollard
Cass Fermazzi vs Molly O'Sullivan WINNER: Molly O'Sullivan
Oliver Harper vs Liv Chenka WINNER: Liv Chenka
C'rizz vs Lucie Miller WINNER: Lucie Miller
Iris Wildthyme vs Anya Kingdom WINNER: Iris Wildthyme
Erimem vs Bliss WINNER: Bliss
Hex Schofield vs Helen Sinclair WINNER: Helen Sinclair
Tania Bell vs Evelyn Smythe WINNER: Evelyn Smythe
Day 2
Bill Potts vs Nardole WINNER: Bill Potts
The TARDIS vs River Song WINNER: The TARDIS
Wilfred Mott vs Jack Harkness WINNER: Wilfred Mott
Amy Pond vs Martha Jones WINNER: Martha Jones
Clara Oswald vs Rory Williams WINNER: Clara Oswald
Ruby Sunday vs Rose Noble WINNER: Rose Noble
Kate Stewart vs Canton Everette Deleware III WINNER: Kate Stewart
Missy vs Donna Noble WINNER: Donna Noble
Bernice Summerfield vs Marie (Alien Bodies) WINNER: Bernice Summerfield
Chris Cwej vs Business Woman WINNER: Chris Cwej
Roz Forrester vs The Mortimer family WINNER: Roz Forrester
Rosie Taylor vs Compassion WINNER: Compassion
Fitz Kreiner vs Serena WINNER: Fitz Kreiner
Badger vs Wolsey WINNER: Wolsey
Sam Jones vs Claudia Marwood WINNER: Sam Jones
Homunculette vs Anji Kapoor WINNER: Anji Kapoor
Day 3
Ace McShane vs Mags WINNER: Ace McShane
Romana I vs Nyssa WINNER: Nyssa
Romana II vs Ryan Sinclair WINNER: Romana II
Graham O'Brien vs Mel Bush WINNER: Mel Bush
Vislor Turlough vs K9 WINNER: K9
Chang Lee vs Tegan Jovanka WINNER: Tegan Jovanka
Inston-Vee Vinder vs Grace Holloway WINNER: Inston-Vee Vinder
Peri Brown vs Yasmin Khan WINNER: Yasmin Khan
Frobisher vs ARC WINNER: Frobisher
Duh vs Josie Day WINNER: Josie Day
Ssard vs Chantir WINNER: Ssard
Gus Goodman vs Izzy Sinclair WINNER: Izzy Sinclair
Rose-the-cat vs Abslom Daak WINNER: Rose-the-cat
Majenta Pryce vs Maxwell Edison WINNER: Majenta Pryce
Kroton vs Ly-Chee the Wise WINNER: Kroton
Fey Truscott-Sade vs Destrii WINNER: Destrii
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Cuphead bosses and their favorite food.
Goopy Le Grande: Jellybeans.
The Root Pack: Fertilizer.
Cagney Carnation: Sunlight.
Hildaberg: Moon pies.
Ribby and Croaks: Scrambled eggs.
Baroness Von Bon Bon: Strawberry cupcakes.
Beppi the clown: Corndogs.
Djimmi the great: Peshwari naan.
Wally Warbles: Sunflower seeds.
Grim Matchstick: S'mores.
The Phantom Express: Tide pods.(Don't eat them.)
Captain Brineybeard: Steamed oysters.
Rumor Honeybottoms: Grapes.
Werner Werman: Bratwurst.
Cala Maria: Crab legs.
Sally Stageplay: French toast.
Dr.Kahl: Pasta salad.
King Dice: Lobster.
The Devil: Devil's food cake.
Glumstone: Pancakes.
Esther: Peacan pie.
Walter: Margherita pizza.
Lucy: Lasagna.
Sheldon: Beef Stroganoff.
Anthony: BBQ chicken.
Mortimer freeze: Icepops.
Penelope: Pumpkin bread.
Bernard: B.L.T
Chef Saltbaker: Macarons.
#Cuphead#cuphead dlc#cuphead bosses#chef saltbaker#moonshine mob#esther winchester#howling aces#glumstone the giant#mortimer freeze
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In all the years of her marriage, a long war in which attack, if not happening, was always imminent, she had learned an expert cunning. The way to avoid being hurt, to dodge unhappiness, was to run away. Feelings of guilt and cowardice presented no problems that couldn't be overcome by dreams, by games, by the gentle sound of her own voice advising and rebuking her as she went about the house. 'Poor old Mum,' she had heard Julian saying to Angela, 'she's going a bit balmy.' She was still young and her apparently commonplace life was full of hiding places, a maze of secrecy and deceit and hope tunneled below the unvarying days.
— Daddy's Gone A-Hunting by Penelope Mortimer
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The Reckless Moment (1949) / Mad Men 4.13 (2010) / Far From Heaven (2002)
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting, 1958, Penelope Mortimer
#the reckless moment#daddy's gone a hunting#mad men#far from heaven#m#so theres this endless pain...............
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Jane Asher, Barbara Couper and Andrew Cruickshank in The Renegade, aired on september 4th 1961 through BBC.
Penelope Mortimer, the author of tonight's play, writes ...
I HAVE lived with The Renegade for a very long time. It took me about twenty-five years—looking at it,
looking hastily away again before I managed to write it in its original form, as a short story for the New Yorker. Far from being exorcised, my ghosts immediately gained a new lease of life. Where before they had been huddled up peaceably enough in the back of my mind, they now demanded to be en and heard: in fact— an intimidating idea to me at first— they demanded to
re-embodied. This may sound an intensely personal reason for offering fifty-odd minutes of entertainment to a vast and possibly incurious public—I cannot think of a better one.
The play concerns a few hours in the lives of the Reverend Brian Ratchett,
his wife Helen, and their thirteen-year-old daughter, Patricia; a few hours in which, as on the evening when the child Proust was deprived of his bed-time kiss, the emotional pattern of a lifetime is indelibly stamped.
The fact that Brian Ratchett is a Church of England clergyman whose courage is not qual to his beliefs may possibly upset those who think that a parson is a kind of human Sunday.' The answer is simply that Ratchett, as I saw him, had to be a man whose difficult profession was both to preach and to practise:
and that without this particular background and life there would have been no conflict and no story.
It is a curious sensation, handing over a part of oneself to other people. What if Ratchett cheated me by becoming a small, mean man?
What if Patricia did' for the whole thing by turning out to be coy, incapable of feeling?
My misgivings were groundless. These Ratchetts-Andrew Cruickshank, Alison Leggatt, and Jane Asher-are my Ratchetts, but with an added quality of humanity and compassion which brings them immediately, urgently alive. Reality is often blurred, blunted and unconvincing: it requires another dimension before it can be understood. The Renegade was always a real story. It has now at last, I think, become a true one.
Newspaper scan from eBay.
#jane asher#the beatles#60s#beatles girls#actress#lady jane asher#something about jane asher#model#beatles women#redhead#red hair#1961#beatles girl#explore
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Actors in alphabetical order: part 1(A-D), part 2, part 3
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The arrangement of names may not be alphabetical
▶Page 1
Anne Hathaway
Anya Taylor-Joy
Asia Argento
Astrid Berges-Frisbey
Boran Kuzum
Camille Rutherford
▶Page 2
Carla Juri
César Domboy
Cate Blanchett
Charity Wakefield
Charlie Rowe
Chiara Mastroianni
Christian Bale
Christoph Waltz
Ethan Erickson
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Dagmara Dominczyk
Dan Stevens
Ella Purnell
Emily Blunt
Ezra Miller
Raffey Cassidy
Rebecca Emilie Sattrup
Rose Byrne
Roxane Duran
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Frances O'Connor
Gemma Arterton
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Hattie Morahan
Hugh Dancy
Isabelle Adjani
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Izzy Meikle-Small
James Norton
Jane Birkin
Joanne Whalley
Lucy Boynton
Léa Seydoux
Monica Keena
Nicolas Duvauchelle
Sally Hawkins
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Adriana Tarábková
Dakota Fanning
Gaia Weiss
Kirsten Dunst
Pia Degermark
Roxane Mesquida
Rosamund Pike
Samantha Gates
Sophia Myles
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Annabelle Wallis
Carey Mulligan
Guy Pearce
James Frain
Olivia Cooke
Rachel Hurd-Wood
Soko
Sujaya Dasgupta
Tom Cruise
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Adèle Exarchopoulos
Anna Maxwell Martin
Charles Dance
Emma Williams
Gillian Anderson
Natalie Press
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María Valverde
Paz Vega
Frédéric Noaille
Catherine Mouchet
Déborah François
Joséphine Japy
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Ben Whishaw
Clémence Poésy
Elliot Grihault
Emilia Fox
Joseph Morgan
Lambert Wilson
Michelle Dockery
Phoebe Fox
Sophie Okonedo
Tom Hiddleston
Tom Hughes
Tom Sturridge
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Charlotte Gainsbourg
Felicity Jones
Fu'ad Aït Aattou
Greta Scacchi
Helena Bonham Carter
Holliday Grainger
Michelle Pfeiffer
Rupert Friend
Christina Giannelli
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Danylo Kolomiiets
Katie McGrath
Keeley Hawes
Maria Bonnevie
Marta Gastini
Miriam Giovanelli
Olivia Hussey
Oscar Isaac
Peter Plaugborg
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Ben Barnes
Ben Chaplin
Bill Skarsgård
Iben Akerlie
Jakob Oftebro
Jo Woodcock
Lily-Rose Depp
Reese Witherspoon
Ruth Wilson
Samantha Soule
Tess Frazer
Virginie Ledoyen
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Cary Elwes
Colin Firth
Daniel Day-Lewis
Emilia Verginelli
Hannah James
Jonah Hauer-King
Loli Bahia
Lorenzo Balducci
Rebecca Hall
Robin Wright
Rupert Everett
Willa Fitzgerald
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Annes Elwy
Claire Danes
Eliza Scanlen
Kathryn Newton
Maya Hawke
Romola Garai
Samantha Mathis
Trini Alvarado
Winona Ryder
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Douglas Smith
Eric Bana
Gizem Karaca
Jessica Brown Findlay
Kenneth Branagh
Millie Brady
Natalie Dormer
Poppy Delevingne
Rachel Weisz
Rosy McEwen
Sam Claflin
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Aubri Ibrag
Christina Hendricks
Connie Jenkins-Greig
Guy Remmers
Henry Cavill
Imogen Waterhouse
Josie Totah
Mia Threapleton
Olivia Hallinan
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Fahriye Evcen
Jim Caviezel
Justine Waddell
Penelope Cruz
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Christopher Abbott
Emma Stone
Francesca Annis
Jasmine Blackborow
Louis Cunningham
Margaret Qualley
Mark Ruffalo
Mélanie Thierry
Ramy Youssef
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To do list:
Léa Seydoux - under development (Roses à crédit 2010, Belle Épine 2010, Mistérios de Lisboa 2010, The Beast 2023, Dune: Part Two)
Kelly Macdonald - under development (Elizabeth1998, Nanny McPhee 2005, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 2011, Boardwalk Empire)
Emily Mortimer - under development (Elizabeth1998, The Glass Virgin 1995, Leonie 2010)
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"Now the truth would be told" #thepumpkineater #penelopemortimer
“Now the truth would be told” #thepumpkineater #penelopemortimer
As I’ve mentioned previously, the lovely LibraryThing Virago Modern Classics group is hosting this year a monthly themed reading project of books from our collections; I’ve managed to take part in a few of the themes so far, and June’s choice is books by Virago authors, but issued by a different publisher. That opens up all manner of possibilities, and as I hinted in my May round-up post, I was…
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