The longer that dreams remained mere dreams, the more difficult it was to mold them to reality.
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The longer that dreams remained mere dreams, the more difficult it was to mold them to reality.
If this night has taught you anything it must be that a life lived halfway is the deadliest thing on earth. You must be fully born.
I am too old to turn back and too young to forget my brilliant hopes.
…the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.
Perhaps, not only to attain her but also to conjure away her dangers, all that was needed was a feeling as primitive and as simple as that of love, but that was the only thing that did not occur to anyone.
Everyone else seems to have a blue copy of Rumo and I‘m over here chilling with my green one!
It is time, yet again, to settle down with a book by my very favorite author. 🐰
Weakness are listed as gluttony, drooling, & grumpiness. I feel attacked! That was basically my Christmas Day nap! 😜
Idk what it says about my stress levels that I had to dip out of Midnight in Chernobyl, even though I desperately want to read it. I picked a different path to travel down that includes zombie cows...
Sometimes you need to relax with a story that really burns it all to the damn ground
Woo boy do we need to talk about this book! I have questions! Where are the adults? How do they get things from the Outsides? What about their former lives? When do they phase out? Where do they go?
The fact that he couldn't get the tune of ”The Lonely Goatheard” out of his head 😂😂 #relatable
Grady Hendrix‘s new book got me like:
so-soThis is such a sweet book. Precious, precocious, and honest. It was a feel good read.
pickOof. This was a hard read. As an Alabamian, I am both embarrassed and saddened. It‘s made worse by Lee not shying away from the exact thing that was going on in small southern backwoods at the time. Humanity has come so far, but still has so far to go.
The turning point. The point where Atticus falls from grace. The point where Scout realizes something ugly about the one person she‘s always thought could do no wrong. I think this will ultimately be as important a read as To Kill A Mockingbird, because people are not always what they seem, because even a seemingly good person can harbor ugliness.
I have mixed emotions about even reading this book. I know there was a great controversy over it even being printed. TKAMB was brilliant, but I haven‘t read it since high school. As a fellow Alabamian and avid reader, I am excited. Knowing that she didn‘t want it to see the light of day makes me curious and sad.
This is the second in the triology, and I‘m one chapter in and it isn‘t disappointing. Same sass, same humor. I love this mans writing style.
“Steel blades such as you and I do not measure against the standards for ordinary women.”
A fantastic study of the effect of Stockholm Syndrome on African wild life. Perfectly worded, so that even the youngest aspiring psychologist has full clinical understanding of the trauma that precedes the condition.
My husband wanted to know which part of waking up a woman and that causing her to be violent was fictional. Smartass
She doesn‘t understand why I am yelling at this book and she doesn‘t care for my attitude right now
Waiting on new brakes, because having a car is much better when it‘s able to stop. Also my sweater matches my book.
Let's talk about self-aware book characters. I first stumbled upon this particular part of my wheelhouse with Jasper Fforde and I haven‘t found anything quite up to the speed of Thursday Next until this book. I love a good character that knows they‘re a character. Is there anything else along these lines that I can delve into? How do you feel about characters that know they‘re characters?
From the description this will be Fforde-esque and I am totally down for self aware fictional characters.
“But I was beginning to learn that your life story is a story told about you, not one that you tell.”
As someone working in the medical field, I‘d like to point out how totally fucked up the OD scene is. But I do like the phrase “jumped off the cap of a pillbox”. Literally treating ODs like a plumbing issue freaks me out a bit, but at the same time, I GET IT. Which is a horrifying thing to say about yourself. Thanks Bradbury. I‘m confirmed fucked up.
My favorite reference to the book in pop culture has to be this song. This song was my jam long before I read the book.
I love this book. I‘ve taken a while to read it because it is one of those books that needs to be absorbed. It‘s beautiful, well written, and endearing. You need to read this book and take the time to savor it.
People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair cut, and getting born. And in some of those houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered.
“Posthumously declassified” is my new favorite thing to call what my family likes to do a funerals.
“... suffering the the anxiety that modern conveniences would induce in her over the years...” perfectly describes my mother.
Kids playing, gumbo simmering, overcast sky, comfortable 85 degrees. I‘m in my happy place.
If you don‘t get a sense of the family being dysfunctional by page 4, you haven‘t been paying attention. The brother isn‘t named as of yet, only referred to as “Chapter Eleven”. 😂😂
Starting this with breakfast and noises kids and Scooby Doo.
I actually pegged the plot pretty early on. But the ending was a twisty ride. Easy read, fast read, good and suspenseful.
