Read a debut novel. #readharder2017

#readsharder2017 #technology

Next up!

The vacation I needed!

#readharder2017 book 2!

"Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and focus only on that which we want to perceive."

Nothing like a relevant #truthbomb to start off my #readharder2017.

Sunday Morning Bliss.

Onto the next one.

Interesting look at how women in history influenced the author; however I was looking for more of a modern take.

Too soon? Not soon enough? -- How is it that books find you when you need them?

"I've always known that a book will find you when you need it to be found; in New York I learned that so does history."

How relevant to today!

"I could no longer outsource my problems to intimates, and I had to learn to keep my own counsel. It was not a pleasant realization. I felt very tired, like someone who'd been stuck mute and now had set about learning American Sign Language."

Yeah, I know that feeling. :)

"Grief is love's souvenir. It's our proof that we once loved. Grief is the receipt we wave in the air that says to the world: Look! Love was once mine. I loved well. Here's my proof that I paid the price."

"I am becoming less afraid of myself. I wonder if this is because I need to check my shame levels daily, like a diabetic checks her insulin levels. Truth telling becomes my shame checker and my relief."

"There is no way out of the imagined order. When we break down our prison walls and run towards freedom, we are in fact running into the more spacious exercise yard of a bigger prison."

I know, a bit of a downer, but it reminds me that everything is fake which can help when things get rough.

Just might be my favorite photo caption ever.

Before farming there was no reason for long-term planning because foragers lived from hand to mouth and it was hard to accumulate stuff. #mindblown