#Tayari Jones

[smokefalls]

But how you feel love and understand love are two different things.

Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

#Tayari Jones #An American Marriage #quote #fiction #2023 reads

[beautyandtheuniverse]

"I've likely rolled with punches when I should have hit back," she said. "But I rolled my way into a life I love."

Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

#an american marriage #tayari jones #book quotes #lit quotes #literature #fiction

[words-and-coffee]

Sometimes it’s exhausting for me to simply walk into the house. I try and calm myself, remember that I’ve lived alone before. Sleeping by myself didn’t kill me then and will not kill me now. But this what loss has taught me of love. Our house isn’t simply empty, our home has been emptied. Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it’s gone, nothing is whole again.

Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

#Tayari Jones #An American Marriage #quote #quotes

[bookaddict24-7]

AUTHOR FEATURE:

﹒Tayari Jones﹒

Six Books Written By this Author:

An American Marriage

Silver Sparrow

Leaving Atlanta

The Untelling

Half Light

Dispossession

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Happy reading!

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[the-final-sentence]

Six years before Beloved, she didn't need Paul D to tell her that she was her own best thing.

Tayari Jones, from "Her Own Best Thing"

#Tayari Jones #Her Own Best Thing

[mynameismalin]

The moment, when a huge plot happened in the book your just reading and your neuroduvergend mind will be there sitting for 5 minutes and screaming 'What?' in 5.000 different nuances.

#neuroduvergend #book plot #plot #book #reading is good #reading #i am reading #amdjsk #THE PLOT MAN #MY WHOLE HEAD IS SCREAMING WHAG?MMM #IN LIKE SO MANY TONES #LIKE BRO WHAT #WHAT #An American Marriage #Tayari Jones

[writerly-ramblings]

Books Read in July:

1). Small Things Like These (Claire Keegan)

2). Brown Girls (Daphne Palasi Andreades)

3). An American Marriage (Tayari Jones)

4). Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Olga Tokarczuk)

5). Abigail (Magda Szabó)

6). Foster (Claire Keegan)

7). The Best American Food Writing 2021 (edited by Silvia Killingsworth and Gabrielle Hamilton)

8). Slow Days, Fast Company (Eve Babitz)

9). Translating Myself and Others (Jhumpa Lahiri)

10). The Poetry of Strangers (Brian Sonia-Wallace)

#booklist #my literary life #booklr #adult booklr #claire keegan #daphne palasi andreades #tayari jones #olga tokarczuk #magda szabo #the best american food writing #eve babitz #jhumpa lahiri #brain sonia-wallace

[writerswritecompany]

Quotable – Tayari Jones

Find out more about the author here

#Tayari Jones #Writing Quotes

[thatwritererinoriordan]

#zora neale hurston #hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick #stories #harlem renaissance #tayari jones

[m-c-easton]

Book Picks: The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois

**Triggering Content (child abuse) Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award (yes, people, I’m still catching up on early pandemic booklists), Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ novel The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois has given us an immensely rich novel, one that hooked me with the depth and drama of a Black family spanning the history of America. The structure is complex, opening most of the eleven…

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#Ailey Garfield #Bernardine Evaristo #Black and Indigenous history #child abuse in literature #Daphne du Maurier #Douglas Sirk #feminist fiction #Girl Woman Other #Honorée Fanonne Jeffers #intergenerational trauma #National Book Award longlist #Robert Jones Jr. #slavery in the United States #subtext in literature #Tayari Jones #The Bluest Eye #The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois #Todd Haynes #Toni Morrison #United States history

[smokefalls]

Human emotion is beyond comprehension, smooth and uninterrupted, like an orb made of blown glass.

Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

#Tayari Jones #An American Marriage #quote #fiction #2023 reads

[andreabadgley]

The dinner dishes are done, and now I can read.

#books #an American marriage #tayari jones

[words-and-coffee]

Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it’s gone, nothing is whole again.

Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

#Tayari Jones #An American Marriage #quote #quotes #love #heartbreak #grief tw #grief

[wellconstructedsentences]

Home isn't where you land; home is where you launch.

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

#an American marriage #tayari jones

[rasparagus]

just started reading a new book and wow its refreshing to read good writing after reading a bunch of books that just didnt hit for me

#the book is leaving atlanta by tayari jones #it has a lot of heavy topics but its written so so well #even with the really heavy topics there’s still points that make me laugh bc the main character is so endearing #ro’s.chats

[mynameismalin]

"When she knew you weren't by yourself, she could finally let go." - Celestial, An American Marriage

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Omg. This is good. Good reason too. Man.

#an american marriage #tayari jones #celestial #celeste #georgia #roy #idk man