https://emilyromrell.com Tue, 17 Aug 2021 06:34:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://emilyromrell.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/cropped-NewVLLogo-32x32.png https://emilyromrell.com 32 32 142175226 https://emilyromrell.com/the-thirteenth-tale-by-diane-setterfield/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-thirteenth-tale-by-diane-setterfield https://emilyromrell.com/the-thirteenth-tale-by-diane-setterfield/#respond Tue, 17 Aug 2021 17:00:00 +0000 https://emilyromrell.com/?p=9882 You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.

The post The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield first appeared on Emily Romrell.]]> https://emilyromrell.com/the-thirteenth-tale-by-diane-setterfield/feed/ 0 9882 https://emilyromrell.com/the-silent-patient-by-alex-michaelides/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-silent-patient-by-alex-michaelides https://emilyromrell.com/the-silent-patient-by-alex-michaelides/#respond Thu, 10 Jun 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://emilyromrell.com/?p=8899 We are made up of different parts, some good, some bad, and a healthy mind can tolerate this ambivalence and juggle both..Mental illness is precisely about a lack of this kind of integration.

The post The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides first appeared on Emily Romrell.]]> https://emilyromrell.com/the-silent-patient-by-alex-michaelides/feed/ 0 8899 https://emilyromrell.com/mariana-by-susanna-kearsley/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mariana-by-susanna-kearsley https://emilyromrell.com/mariana-by-susanna-kearsley/#respond Thu, 29 Apr 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://emilyromrell.com/?p=7918 The past is very seductive...really it's the present that's in a mist, uncertain. The past is quite clear, and warm, and comforting. That's why people often get stuck there.

The post Mariana By Susanna Kearsley first appeared on Emily Romrell.]]> https://emilyromrell.com/mariana-by-susanna-kearsley/feed/ 0 7918 https://emilyromrell.com/code-name-verity-by-elizabeth-e-wein/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=code-name-verity-by-elizabeth-e-wein https://emilyromrell.com/code-name-verity-by-elizabeth-e-wein/#respond Tue, 06 Mar 2018 13:55:07 +0000 https://eclecticreadingroom.wordpress.com/?p=354 I am no longer afraid of getting old. Indeed I can't believe I ever said anything so stupid. So childish. So offensive and arrogant.
But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old.

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