![]() ![]() Admittedly, their father did think we were being a bit strange. The whole book is very chatty, for instance early on she discusses her favourite print fonts which was exactly what my family and I had been talking about just a few days before, my favourites are Johnston (the London Underground) and Gill Sans (the BBC). To that end, she decided that for a whole year she wouldn’t buy any new books and would only read those that she already owned, unless it was a book which a publisher sent to her for reviewing purposes or something which she needed to read for research. There were hundreds of such volumes and she decided that she needed to re-acquaint herself with her own books. Whilst looking for that book she discovered books that she had forgotten about and others that she didn’t even know that she owned. ![]() I always think that I know exactly where it is and I’m sure I saw it only a few days ago, but it doesn’t seem to be anywhere. ![]() Susan Hill suffers from the same problem that I have which is that I often spend a lot of time looking for a particular book. I requested this book from the library because I had read about it on the internet and it sounded interesting to me. ![]()
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In April of 1862, London publisher Alexander Macmillan issued Christina Rossetti’s first volume of poems, Goblin Market and Other Poems. ![]() ![]() ![]() I need a moment, or a thousand moments, to adjust to this new role. I’m gazing at him walk to me down the hall of the White House residence, both of us ready to attend a social dinner. He’s the first to move, prying his hands from his pockets, eyes flaring, inhaling visibly-his inhale stretching the fabric of that black tux.ĭisbelief and a punch of longing to have all of this man, his love and his name and his babies, hits me as he approaches. His hair is combed back and oh, how I love every chiseled inch of his face. The part where I lost my heart to Matthew Hamilton? It was only the beginning… ![]() But it seems like history wasn’t done with me. Normalcy will be gone from my life, privacy forgotten. Now the man I love is the President of the United States of America. 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