Jaime Hylton, Hodophile, Orophile, Librocubicularist
@shadowjaime.bsky.social
I’ve lost access to my original Bluesky account, so this is a continuation. Reader, traveler, questioner. I was raised by books. Thank you, new followers — just want you to know that I don’t follow back those whose pages consist exclusively of reposts.
Highlights from Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (day 3) “‘Me gustan las enchiladas y la Coca-Cola y el Cha Cha Cha.’ Nor did you speak the truth when you learned a language; you said whatever you could with the words you had…,
Highlights from Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (day 2) “Many of us don’t live in communities any longer, where you are cherished just for your family having been known for generations, where everyone stays in the same place….
This week I’m highlighting excerpts from Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, a novel about two young Indian people studying/working in the U.S. Desai has said that she wrote about the rifts between races, genders, and religions all as a kind of loneliness and of loneliness itself as…
Good Sunday morning, fellow travelers. #ImageAndVerse #Poetry #Stunday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDark
Highlights from Elizabeth Strout’s The Things We Never Say (day 5) “It went through his mind faintly: I will not have the free will to prevent whatever is going to happen to me.
Highlights from Elizabeth Strout’s The Things We Never Say (day 4) “He had said something like, ‘why don’t people ever say anything real?’ And now he knew why. Because to say anything real was to say things that nobody wanted to know.
😢 Glen Hansard, Oscar-winning Once musician, has died at 56 after a motorcycle crash — Rolling Stone
Highlights from Elizabeth Strout’s The Things We Never Say (day 3) “So blind we humans are — so blind. To each other and to ourselves, moving through life as though through shadows, putting out a hand in the dark and thinking we have touched someone. And maybe we have…
Highlights from Elizabeth Strout’s The Things We Never Say (day 2) “…[H]e was finally beginning to understand the multitudinous aspect of people. …[In] his study of history, he had learned about the leaders, and the various groups involved, but he had somehow missed this fact about every single…
This week I’m highlighting excerpts from Elizabeth Strout’s most recent novel, The Things We Never Say — a poignant exploration of the human condition. To paraphrase Rainer Maria Rilke, the best we can do is salute one another from the borders of our own solitude.
Good Sunday morning, fellow travelers. #ImageAndVerse #Poetry “To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.” — William Blake Excerpt from “Auguries of Innocence”
Highlights from Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered (day 5) 1: “‘Deserving, getting, and wanting are three different things…. Typically unrelated.
Highlights from Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered (day 4) 1: “To please their beloveds some women faked orgasm; Willa faked composure. She felt an edge of panic and tried not to think. Thinking made everything worse.”
Highlights from Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered (day 3) “…depressed people can’t bond properly.” “A mother’s unfulfilled ambitions lie heaviest on her daughters.”
Highlights from Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered (day 2) 1: “William of Occam was a man of God, a Franciscan friar in the fourteenth century. He argued that a complex explanation, when it does not hold water, will always grow more complex as it attempts to patch its own holes.
1: This week I’m highlighting Barbara Kingsolver’s novel Unsheltered, in which she intertwines parallel stories set in the same house a century apart. Both timelines depict characters grappling with the collapse of societal systems surrounding them.
“It feels wrong to celebrate America’s birthday while it’s on life support.” Teresa Burns Parkhurst, The New Yorker
