"There have been suggestions of a revolution in Russia for months past, and everyone hoped and prayed that a catastrophe might be averted, as people here naturally feared [...]"
middle sentence of "Testament of youth" by #VeraBrittain on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-0-349-00592-8-middle-sentence.php

Useless quote for 26 April:

"Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity."

~ Vera Brittain, 1964

#UselessQuote #VeraBrittain

@geekaren @bookstodon
2022 was a slow reading (for fun) year for me, for a number of reasons, but here are a few I loved (in no particular order):
• #BeastsOfALittleLand by #JuheaKim
• #TestamentOfYouth by #VeraBrittain
• #ThereThere by #TommyOrange
• #UnderTheWhisperingDoor by #TJKlune
• #BeastsOfPray by #AyanaGray
• #HowToStopTime by #MattHaig
and
• #SolutionsAndOtherProblems by #AllieBrosh

What a quote from (unmarried, childless) Winifred Holt on the demands of a partner and family:

"We have to choose between barren ease and rich unrest."

It's true for me - life's draining but I will miss this stage when it's gone.

Link to the #Guardian article on the letters between #WinifredHoltby and #VeraBrittain

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/10/between-friends-review-the-letters-of-vera-brittain-and-winifred-holtby

'If people can be divided, roughly speaking, into drains and radiators, then [Vera] Brittain is the former, still complaining about her highly privileged lot even as her dearest pal struggles with the illness that will shortly kill her. [Winifred] Holtby, on the other hand, is the latter: warm, encouraging, ever-optimistic.'

Between Friends: Letters of #VeraBrittain and #WinifredHoltby, ed. Elaine and English Showalter. Virago (£25)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/04/between-friends-letters-of-vera-brittain-and-winifred-holtby-review-a-strange-sisterhood