📸: Typorama
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Midnight Library
pickThis was a boy and his dog story, and I didn‘t know if I‘d like it (not a dog person). It was the best thing about the book.
The real world section develops the characters and story very well. The fairy tale section swaps in a whole new cast that mostly falls flat. And the adventure had no real stakes.
But maybe that‘s the point - fairy tales aren‘t all they‘re cracked up to be.
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pickThe message is simple enough - yet quite profound if you truly grasp its full potential. Your story - as it is - is important. Almost a year later, I finally finished this book. Amidst a pandemic reading slump, the monotony of daily life, and my own suffering, this book of big and small questions was important, though never easy, for me to read.
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pickSimple enough idea - the end was obvious from the start; not a lot of surprises. But while the idea is simple, the execution - not so much. That‘s the value of this book for me. Life is scrutinized through the lens of comparison, and the photo taken often times develops into criticism, doubt, anger, fear - you know, all the good stuff that keeps a body healthy. 😳
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pickAt the heart of this time travel book that spans 500 years and explores bigs questions like the nature of reality, the meaning of life, and the end of the world, is an intimate portrayal of loneliness, grief, and the connection we all seek.
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pickThis one really got me thinking about what it means to be human. How do our experiences and expectations impact our relationships and responsibilities to those we love and the world writ large?
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pickOverall, Gwendy‘s story for me was about creativity, construction vs. destruction, secrets, fate vs. free will, and man‘s efficacy in his own life and the world.
The Button Box was full of magic and wonder. The story should have been left here.
Magic Feather was written sans King and lacked any magic whatsoever. It was forgettable.
Final Task is dark and somber, highlighting the price paid for such a power as that contained within the box.
pick“[I feel like] I‘m losing my mind but in a slow, achingly beautiful sort of way.”
That quote sums up what it is like to read this book. The plot is ridiculous, the narrative frames are bonkers, the prose is beautiful, and the experience is wonderful - unless it isn‘t.
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“I‘ve been trying to stay real
and true and proud of who I am
All those ideals of how to look
I‘ve been trying not to care
But I‘m still holding my breath
I‘m still watching every step
I‘m still tip-toeing away
when I‘m getting too ashamed of myself
Though I‘m mostly quiet
I‘ve got a lot to say
but nothing seems to please you
so I‘ll keep it to myself 👇
#QuotsyApr20 | 21: #Transform
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“All your life you‘re told you‘re unique. An individual. That no one on the planet is just like you. It‘s humanity‘s anthem.”
#QuotsyApr20 | 20 #Alike
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“Imagine a summer night. It's warm enough to not wear a hoodie and you're biking with no shoes on. Your friends are laughing and joking, biking next to you. If you're biking fast enough and keep your eyes focused in front of you the traffic lights turn into golden shooting stars above and beside. It reminds you of magic.”👇
#QuotsyApr20 | 19: #Bicycle
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“What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry.”
#QuotsyApr20 | 13: #Thoughtful
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pickThis book is one of the most difficult books to explain, but also difficult to stop reading. I‘m still not sure what I just read. Was it comedy, horror, metafiction, satire? Yes. And because of that it is also it‘s own thing. I think. One sentence, I‘m like 😊👍 “OK this is good”. Next, I‘m like 😉 “Yup, I see what you did there”. A few sentences later, I‘m like 🤣. And then - 😳 or even 🤢. The book on the whole left me 🤯. 👇
📷: Libby
“Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you‘ve done, you‘ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.”
#QuotsyApr20 | 12: #Egg
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“My liege, and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is,
Why day is day, night night, and time is time,
Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief.”
#QuotsyApr20 | 11: #Vocabulary
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“Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That‘s hardly athletic. Phallic and sexy, yes. But hardly athletic.”
#QuotsyApr20 | 07: #First
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“Expression that comes from the deepest, darkest place that most of us would rather hide from the rest of the world is the substance that will most likely also deeply affect others.”
#QuotsyApr20 | 04: #Tangible
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“You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.”
#QuotsyApr20 | 03: #Walk
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“Do a loony-goony dance
'Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain't been there before.”
#QuotsyApr20 | 01: This might be #Vital 02: #Choreograph(y) advice for navigating today‘s weird weird world.
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“Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly. Be yourself. [W]hatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.”
#QuotsyMar20 | 31: #Necessity
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pickReview || Wanderers | Chuck Wendig
A mysterious sleepwalking sickness has hit the United States, starting with a young girl. And it seems to be spreading. What it is and how it spreads, no one knows. Terrorists? Disease? Apocalypse? 👇
📷: Audible
“I ordered a chicken and an egg from Amazon. I‘ll let you know.”
#QuotsyMar20 | 30: #Funny
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“Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity, but it can be a resource for creativity. Long before the modern obsession with efficiency precipitated by the Industrial Revolution and the Protestant work ethic, civilizations recognized the benefits of procrastination. In ancient Egypt, there were two different verbs for procrastination: one denoted laziness; the other meant waiting for the right time.”
“One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until this point, always just existed. And now it's a finite resource, constantly in danger of extinction, that must be carefully tracked and monitored, like pandas?”
#QuotsyMar20 | 28: #Demand
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“[M]emory...is everything. [I]t‘s the filter between us and reality. You think you‘re tasting this wine, hearing the words I‘m saying, in the present, but there‘s no such thing. The neural impulses from your taste buds and your ears get transmitted to your brain, which processes them and dumps them into working memory - so by the time you know you‘re experiencing something, it‘s already in the past. Already a memory.”
“I am always saying ‘Glad to've met you‘ to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
#QuotsyMar20 | 25: #Welcome
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“Here is what Tom Paine wrote: ‘Time makes more converts than reason....I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.‘”
#QuotsyMar20 | 24: #Mutual
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1. Much less. My school year is over. Losing about one-fourth of my salary. Health insurance is up in the air. No commute (audiobooks). No routine (reading before/after _____).
2. YouTube
Sorry. But you asked. Hopefully some motivation and purpose return. For now, it is what it is.
#Two4Tuesday
“Quidquid latine dictum sit altum sonatur.”
#QuotsyMar20 | 23: #Formal
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“Whatever is said in latin sounds profound.”
“From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: they sparkle still the right Promethean fire; they are the books, the arts, the academes, that show, contain and nourish all the world.”
#QuotsyMar20 | 22: #Sight
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“‘Say kids! What time is it?‘
‘It‘s Howdy Doody time!‘”
#QuotsyMar20 | 21: #Gallery
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“Left behind? Why, that‘s a horendemous thing to do to a guy.”
#QuotsyMar20 | 20: #Spring
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Quote || मलाई जिन्दगी नै दुख्दछ | Suman Pokhrel
“My heart itself is a wound, no medicine can cure it. It deepens further if stared at, and hurts more if touched.”
#QuotsyMar20 | 19: #Medicine
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“When you substitute ‘we‘ for ‘I‘ even ‘illness‘ becomes ‘wellness‘.”
#QuotsyMar20 | 18: #Team
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“A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.”
#QuotsyMar20 | 17: #Island
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“A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That‘s what I like about coincidence.”
#QuotsyMar20 | 16: #Miracle
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“Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.”
#QuotsyMar20 | 15: #Control
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“Everyone‘s got their own ideas and they push them and say to hell with everyone else. That's the history of the human race. It got us on top, only now it‘s pushing us off. [P]eople will put up with any kind of discomfort as long as it‘s always been that way. Try to get them to change and they fight you, even while they‘re dying, saying it was good enough for grandpa so it's good enough for me.”
#QuotsyMar20 | 10, 11, 12: #Hell #Nutrition #Guide
“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
#QuotsyMar20 | 09: #Miserable
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“[Proofing sourdough begins with] yeast, which is a fungus, and lactobacillus, a bacteria. They eat flour - its sugars - and poop out acid - thus, sour.”
#QuotsyMar20 | 08: #Proof
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“I'd rather have my blood sucked out by leeches (leeches). Shove an icepick under a toenail or two.
I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you”
#QuotsyMar20 | 07: #Grand
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“[S]avor language and words because no matter what anyone tells you, words and ideas have the power to change the world.”
#QuotsyMar20 | 06: #Society
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“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don‘t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don‘t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what‘s behind the words.”
#QuotsyMar20 | 05: #Education
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“The famous tooth [Buddha‘s tooth] which is made so much of in this moldy old temple is far too large to have ever come from the mouth of a human being and is probably that of some defunct elephant or crocodile.”
#QuotsyMar20 | 04: #Relic
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