Im Going Through Yet Another Robin McKinley Phase. Beauty Was The First Of Her Books I Ever Read And

I’m going through yet another Robin McKinley phase. Beauty was the first of her books I ever read and remains one of my top ten books of all time (which I do not say lightly!)

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the older I get the more I'm like wow Anne Shirley was right. I am so glad to live in a world with Octobers. Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. Dear old world you are very lovely and I am glad to be alive in you.

1812-1815 Dress (England)

muslin embroidered in wool

(Victoria and Albert Museum)

I really don't get why the Brontës get put in competition with Jane Austen so much. They weren't contemporaries. They didn't even write the same genre. This is the definition of pitting women against each other.

Reading this right now and I love Ash’s relationship with her person

It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered; it just is, like sunlight or mountains. It is for human beings to see the shadows behind the light, and the light behind the shadows. It is, perhaps, why dogs have people, and people have dogs.

Robin McKinley, Deerskin