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Autora: #DorisLessing ✒️📖✒️
«¿Aún conservas tu espacio? Tu espacio único, propio y necesario donde puedan hablarte tus propias voces, sólo para tí, donde puedas soñar. Entonces, sujétate fuerte, no te sueltes.»

“A veces resulta difícil ver algo bueno o esperanzador en un mundo que cada vez parece más horroroso. Basta con oír las noticias para que una piense que está viviendo en un manicomio”.

#DorisLessing en uno de los ensayos de “Las cárceles que elegimos”.

https://lecturassumergidas.com/2018/08/30/cuadernos-doris-lessing/

Sipping a word like brandy. New post on Sentence First:
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/sipping-a-word-like-brandy/

#books #metaphor #DorisLessing #words #language #ShortStories #literature #reading #writing

Sipping a word like brandy

In Doris Lessing’s story ‘A Road to the Big City’, published in her 1957 collection The Habit of Loving (my Penguin paperback edition, pictured, is from 1960), two young women, sisters, are travelling by train in Johannesburg.

Marie, the younger, and Lilla sit at a table with a middle-aged man and allow him to buy them drinks. Lilla, who considers her sister unworldly, chooses brandy for them both. It’s Marie’s first time drinking it.

The three get to talking about their plans and backgrounds:

‘Mom is old-fashioned,’ said Marie. She said the word old-fashioned carefully; it was not hers, but Lilla’s; she was tasting it, in the way she sipped at the brandy, trying it out, determined to like it.

It’s common knowledge that we can eat our words (they’re tasty!). It’s less well known that we can drink them too, sampling their flavour on our tongue, testing their effect on our sense of self.

Do you remember trying out a word like this for the first time, wanting to make it your own? What word will you be sipping like brandy today?

#books #brandy #DorisLessing #drink #food #language #literature #metaphor #reading #shortStories #words #writing

Penguin paperback copy of Doris Lessing's book The Habit of Loving. It's off-white with a black-and-white illustration of a woman and man dancing, the woman facing away with her hands on his shoulders, his hands clasped behind her back. He's in a dark suit; she's in a light dress with spaghetti straps and a rose on the back. Her hair is tied up; his eyes are closed. Two thick orange bands run vertically down either side of the cover, and two thin black lines run horizontally, framing the illustration. The book's cost is given as 2'6 in old UK money.

Today's reading: short stories by Doris Lessing

#books #reading #DorisLessing #ShortStories #BookCovers #BookDesign

"Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”

~ Doris Lessing

#DorisLessing #Quote

Les agents sentimentaux de l'empire volyen : langage et politique en science-fiction

https://video.lavolte.net/w/ojYHU59SLLhv2z2zWkvZ2k

A busca apaixonada de Martha Quest, mulher determinada e militante dedicada, dá sentido a sua vida no século 20 e ao século.

R$ 35.

Compre com cartão de crédito, débito, boleto ou pix.
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#romance #dorislessing #historia

Literarischer #22Oktober

„There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”

#DorisLessing #UnderMySkin Geburt 1919

Exciting writer with captivating quotes:
https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/17/doris-lessing-golden-notebook-reading/

Thank you, another great article. (just helped me how to handle a huge book I think I might not be into)

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the very best site ever, seriously!

#dorislessing #TheMarginalian

“Deberíamos encontrar las maneras de educar a nuestros hijos en el sentido de fortalecer a la minoría y no, como hacemos por regla general, de venerar al grupo, a la manada”.

Leyendo “Las cárceles que elegimos” de #DorisLessing

https://lecturassumergidas.com/2018/08/30/cuadernos-doris-lessing/

#FinishedReading this surrealist psychological novel, in which a delusional amnesiac is hospitalized, with a narrative flicking back and forth between his elaborate fantasies and the attempts of doctors to treat / pacify him. This strange novel swings widely in tone and sometimes has very strong 'person describing their dream to you' energy. At its best, as in the 'briefing' of the title, it is a weirdly compelling blend of environmental panic, mysticism, extreme scepticism about science, and many more things that #DorisLessing throws into the mix. I didn't love it and it is not exactly a book that tries to be loved - at times deliberately repetitive, alienating, or deflating - but it was definitely interesting. #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Briefing for a Descent into Hell, by Doris Lessing

Os invitamos a entrar en este artículo sobre la escritora y a bucear, “huronear”, en las páginas de Lecturas Sumergidas, en busca de lecturas que os parezcan cautivadoras, que tal vez acaben tocando un resorte profundo dentro de vosotros.

#DiaDelLibro #DorisLessing

https://lecturassumergidas.com/2018/08/30/cuadernos-doris-lessing/

“Nunca leer algo por sentido del deber o porque forme parte de una moda… Recuerde que el libro que le aburre cuando tiene 20 o 30 años le abrirá perspectivas a los 40 o a los 50, o viceversa. No lea un libro si no es para usted el momento oportuno”.
#DorisLessing #DiaDelLibro

https://lecturassumergidas.com/2018/08/30/cuadernos-doris-lessing/

“Solamente hay una manera de leer, que es huronear en bibliotecas y librerías, tomar libros que llamen la atención y leer solamente esos, dejándolos a un lado cuando aburren, saltándose las partes pesadas…”

Sigue 👇 🧵

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#DiadelLibro2025

https://lecturassumergidas.com/2018/08/30/cuadernos-doris-lessing/

#Bales2025FilmChallenge of April 20: eggs for #EasterSunday

Memoirs of a Survivor (David Gladwell, 1981)
https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gmk1

#DavidGladwell #DorisLessing #JulieChristie #LeonieMellinger #NigelHawthorne #PatKeen #MarkDignam #MikeThorne #WalterLassally #Easter #cinemastodon #film

On first reading Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” (1988). #111Words #DorisLessing #TheFifthChild #UniversityOfPennsylvania #ComparativeLiterature #LiteraryTheory #Dissertation #Novel #Fiction https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/on-first-reading-doris-lessings-fifth.html

“A veces resulta difícil ver algo bueno o esperanzador en un mundo que cada vez parece más horroroso. Basta con oír las noticias para que una piense que está viviendo en un manicomio”.

Leyendo a #DorisLessing Siempre motivador.

https://lecturassumergidas.com/2018/08/30/cuadernos-doris-lessing/

Não podiam ser mais ignorantes.
Qualquer uma delas se mostrava pronta a afirmar que não fazia ideia de que os russos haviam combatido ao lado dos Aliados no decorrer da II Grande Guerra.

#literature, #DorisLessing, #books
https://octaviolima.substack.com/p/nao-podiam-ser-mais-ignorantes

“No conozco a nadie que no sea incompleto (…) Todos estamos atormentados y luchamos… Lo mejor que puede decirse de cualquiera es que lucha”.

"El cuaderno dorado", de #DorisLessing

Nuestra #AutoraSumergida de Hoy.

https://lecturassumergidas.com/2018/08/30/cuadernos-doris-lessing/

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