Lara Marshall

@laramarshall.bsky.social

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Bibliophile, library-lover, braille-student and cat-lady. Fond of hyphens and interrobangs. Treasurer for Share the Vision @ReadingSight and Libraries Engagement Manager @RNIB ❤️

An image of a dark crime scene with yellow and black tape going across it. The headline text reads Hillingdon Libraries Crime Festival. The the subheading lists all the authors names involved - Rev Richard Coles, Mark Billingham, Fiona Cummins, CL Taylpr, Nicci French, Elly Griffiths, Kristen Perrin, Orlando Murrin and S J Bennett.
Lara sitting on a beach lounger at a hotel in Greece, reading "I found a body" by Becky C Brynoff
Dirge without music by Edna St Vincent Millay I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind; Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned. Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you. Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust. A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew, A formula, a phrase remains, - but the best is lost. The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love, - They are gone. They have gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled In the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve. More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world. Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
The front cover of Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley. The top half of the cover has an image of a young man wearing nothing on the upper half of his body, looking at his reflection in a body of water, potentially a lake. There are green shoots coming out of the lake and a bare tree with no leaves behind him. The bottom half of the book is the title and author text on a black background.
Front cover of "The autobiography of Kathryn Janeway: The history of the captain who went b further than any had before." There is an image of the starship voyager from a birds eye view with the Starfleet emblem on top of it. Both of these are on a purple background.
Front cover of "Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck. There is the silhouette in the image of a Shark made up of yellow, orange and red flowers.
Front cover of "I am enough: mark your mirror and change your life" by Marissa Peer. With a picture of Marissa peer looking into the distance. She has a wide brimmed hat on and is wearing a black top.
The front cover of The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher. You can see half of her face and iconic "Danish pastry" side bun hairstyle from Star Wars with a pen speared through her side bun in her hair.
The front cover of Exquisite by Sarah Stovell. There is a picture of what looks like the outline of a woman's body with a house in the middle where it dips.
Front cover of "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood. There is a simple image of a woman in a red dress with a white hood. You can see the woman at all.
The front cover of Helen Keller's autobiography "The Story of my Life". There is a picture of Helen on the front cover sitting down with one hand on a braille book and another hand holding and smelling a rose.
The front cover of "Geek Love" by Katherine Dunn. The word Geek is written in big red letters on a green background on the top half of the book and Love is written in green letters on a red background on the lower half of the book. At the very top in small print is a quote from author Audrey Niffenegger that reads "The strangest and most marvellous of American novels".
The front cover of the book "Mermaids: Lusts and legends of a rebel sisterhood" by Sophia Kingshill. The front image shows a painting of a mermaid with red hair holding a mirror in which has the picture of a skull on it, in one hand and in her other hand she's holding an anchor. She's coming out of the sea and perching on a rock.
The front cover of the poetry collection "Joyriding the Storm" by Vanessa Kisuule. The image of the cover shows a pair of open hands holding with water that's running out of them and a red boat made of paper floating on top.
The front cover of the book "Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf" by Catherine Storr. It has an orange cover with an illustration of a young blonde girl holding a saucepan and nice smells coming out of it, next to a large wolf who is enjoying the smells.
The front cover of the book "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula LeGuin. There is a subtitle underneath that reads "A Classic of Science Fiction". The cover is completely blue, showing two medieval looking cities connected by a bridge.
The outside the Swiss Cottage library, which was called a masterpiece of civil engineering when designed by Basil Spence in 1964. It's a large concrete building shaped like a cigar laying on it's side with two rounded ends.
"Lara" in text with a visual representation of the braille above, separated by a pink line. "Remember - braille is read by touch, this is just a visual representation" and the Braille 200 logo is in the corner, with a visual representation of braille, and RNIB and EBU logos.
Onion bhajis laid out on a dining table respecting the braille code spelling Brl 200.