A good read, interesting characters. ..fate versus free will.

Life! Like the warm life in my arms. But then there can suddenly be too much of it, too much life, and different breathlessness, different danger...

This book will forever inform my writing

Stegner relays through brilliant, simple, and subtle details the dynamic relationship between two very different couples and their life-long friendship. A character study of loyalty, love, fear, envy, and the bonds of friendship. Relationships and friendships change us, teach us about ourselves, and ultimately make us stronger. How does one measure success at the end of one‘s life? Leaves the reader with many questions about life to ponder.

“I like to think I know what death is. I like to think that it‘s something I could look at straight,” says thirteen-year-old Jojo, and by the end of the story, he and the reader have come full circle. With richly drawn characters, Ward links an iconic, multi-generational, present-day story of addiction, shame and guilt drawn with the inherited burden of American history. Ward‘s lyrical prose is a haunting and magical work of art.

“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. - Sam to Frodo, The Lord of the Rings

You need to surrender yourself to death before you ever begin, and accept your life as a state of grace, and then and only then will you be good enough.

Gabriel Tallent, My Absolute

What's gone before you, and what will come after,' I said instead.
'Beg pardon?'
'The past ahead. Time is like a river and you float with the current. Your ancestors set off before you did, so they're far ahead. Your descendants will sail it after.

Natasha Pulley, The Bedlam Stacks

“There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt. ...Whatever the mood ... It is a soundless echo.” West with the Night – Beryl Markham

The person one loves first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another. --- Stoner by John Williams
#autumn #love #thesleepingserpent #time #age #beauty #quotes

Just starting this now. Found an old copy, long overdue. Congratulations #KazuoIshiguro on winning the Nobel.

October is domestic violence month. My novel The Sleeping Serpent is about narcissistic abuse. Relationship abuse is more common that you expect. I hope my book elucidates the characteristics of narcissists, and the inner wounds of their victims.

A thoughtful gift from a friend... I love #thewritinglife

"We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment."

Starting this book, long overdue...

My inspiration, Jim Harrison 💜 My favorite, Legends of the Fall, for the stark beauty of his sentences. They make me weep.

A darker more deeply etched Big Little Lies
#relationships #abuse #narcissist #psychological #mustread #erotic

Blessed with great reviews. Thank you.
Wickedly dark and addictive. Enticingly sinful & sexy as hell ❤ An immensely erotic, deliciously dark, and psychologically captivating new novel that dips into the dark seedy side of yoga. Proof this can happen to anyone!
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My first Elizabeth Strout read. I love it, and wonder why it took me so long. ☺

Ian McEwan never fails. He takes you on a journey inward. Another masterpiece, McEwan is an author's author.

One of the best books on guilt and redemption. And the inspiration for my work in progress

A woman's struggle to break an obsessive bond with her yoga master
#psychological #erotic #narcissist #yoga #mustread #drama #relationships