flynn's bookshelf
By popular request, we've created this space as a cozy nook to share books, poetry, and other literary odds and ends that Flynn loves and learns from in some meaningful way. It's an evolving project and is in no particular order. Please support your local libraries and independent bookstores, essential cornerstones for literary culture, activism, democracy, and community.
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Grab a cup of tea and enjoy.
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“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it. ”
“Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”
“Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.”
“The story — from Rumplestiltskin to War and Peace — is one of the basic tools invented by the human mind for the purpose of understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
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