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Georgia Scott

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The United States
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Graham Greene, Milan Kundera, Jean Rhys, Colette, Toni Morrison

Member Since
December 2021


Georgia Scott is an American poet and novelist from Boston. Educated in the USA and England, she is a former Fulbright and university professor who now writes full time. One of her first poetry readings was at a banned meeting of Solidarity in the 1980s. At one of her more recent readings, she tied up her London audience with red tape. A minimalist with a maximalist love for beaches, Mel Brooks, and baklava, Georgia currently lives in Gdansk, Poland.

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Georgia Scott Always? Always is for love. We sign our lives away with the word. Love always. Yours always. We promise, always, to be true. We give ourselves to one …moreAlways? Always is for love. We sign our lives away with the word. Love always. Yours always. We promise, always, to be true. We give ourselves to one another with the word on our tongues and brand it on our hearts. Writing is different.

I didn't always know the ending of American Girl: Memories That Made Me. There were alternate endings that I had in mind. I spent time with them. Some more intensely than others. They brought laughter and tears and gasps of the best kind. They were good each in their own way. Flaws, I can excuse. Even embrace. Perfection doesn't come into it. What I'm after is something else.

You know the bracelet with a catch so small it's hardly there? It makes a faint "click" when it's latched that you feel, more than hear. That's the ending which at first sight, like love, had me. My ending for American Girl: Memories That Made Me has that "click."


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Georgia Scott I told you. Never call someone's name to wake them because in dreams they will think it is God and they'll go before their time.…moreI told you. Never call someone's name to wake them because in dreams they will think it is God and they'll go before their time.(less)
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The Penny Bride

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Trains of Thought

Yesterday, I got on the wrong train. It was 45 minutes until I could get off. There was a time when I wouldn't have sat there. I once leaped from a train that wasn't mine. This was back when trains had manual doors. But, try as I did, I couldn't budge it. The train by then had started up and began moving. Frantic, I waved to a man on the platform who ran and reached up to pull the handle. When the Read more of this blog post »
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Future Boy by Michael J. Fox
"A 5* nostalgia trip. Anyone who likes Back to the Future films will like this book. The subsequent health issues of Michael J. Fox add a poignant note, but they are not mentioned here. Full of enticing glimpses into the making of the first film, part" Read more of this review »
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I love this book so much!

The writing is so easy and the plot twists are so well done." Read more of this review »
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The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
"5.0 Stars. Langston Hughes. Widely regarded as one of the most talented of African American poets. A man who was the centerpiece of a movement called the Harlem Renaissance. A man who was able to fuse jazz with poetry and with the Black Experience of" Read more of this review »
As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh by Susan Sontag
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Quotes by Georgia Scott  (?)
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“Love is not a weakness. It's the bravest act of our lives.”
Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“Before there is science, there are stories to explain the world. They make it happier somehow.”
Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“Love is not weakness. It's the bravest act of our lives.”
Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“If you love others, life will of necessity be tragic, beautiful, but tragic.”
Graeme Rodaughan, A Subtle Agency

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
William Faulkner

“Touch has a memory.”
John Keats

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
William Wordsworth

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

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William Thank you for the friendship!

I am doing a deep dive on your reviews of books I have read, Thank you


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Alexw Thanks for sending me a friend request and you had me as soon as one of your influences was Mel Brooks.


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