pick"And maybe I can let go of the sting and resentment of the path not taken, because the path not taken isn't just the inverse of who I am. It's an infinitely branching system that represents all the permutations of my life between the extremes of me and Jason 2."
Another great selection from Crouch that explores the idea of a multiverse, infinite versions of ourselves and our lives, and reads much like watching a big budget thriller.
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pickMy first 5 star read of the year...something a little outside my normal reading box...I really enjoyed the questions this book raises about memory, time, destiny, and human behavior. I will definitely pick up Crouch's previous novel Dark Matter in the future.
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Omg...Like Gwen, I have thought it was Berenstein Bears my entire life. I didn't know until I looked it up that this is an actual "thing" with memory conspiracy theories surrounding it! ?
pickUsually if I'm going to read a book associated with a TV series or a movie, I read the book first. In this case, I watched the Netflix series first and found it is only very loosely based on the book. I am honestly not sure which I preferred, but I have to say I liked Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle better, but I enjoyed this one as well...a slow burn to an unexpected end.
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I got about half way through this one months ago and ended up abandoning it even though I love Shirley Jackson. Trying to finish it up today before a couple library holds come in, but summer weather doesn't seem as appropriate as fall weather would for reading it...
pickI read and loved You way before the Netflix series. Hidden Bodies has met with mixed reviews here and while it was not as good as You, I liked it. Mostly because I enjoy Joe's head...the witty, humorous, narcissistic voice Kepnes gives this character. Does Joe finally get his undeserved, happily ever after now that he has transplanted from NY to LA? If you read it, what did you think of Love?? 😕
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"My healer, my Bactine beauty. "
Anyone else remember Bactine as a kid? My Grandma thought it could heal anything, especially a sunburn. ?
*Bookmark colored by and compliments of my 7yo daughter Emmalyn!
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so-soI enjoyed this selection, but I wasn't blown away. A fun premise highlighted some important issues facing Indian women in their communities and I was invested in some of the characters despite what I felt was a lack of depth in the writing style.
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My library holds have been arriving in a steady stream. While picking up two more today, I discovered my library has a yearly teen book mark design contest. They print the winners for patrons to take and use. Pictured here are the second and third place winners...
"I do believe something really magical can happen when you read a book. " - JK Rowling
Love this analogy regarding how someone can get under your skin.
"Billy was like a splinter."
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pickI liked the interview style of the book...it made for a fast 2 day read & also highlighted how one single reality can't exist as each person's perception & memory of the same event are different. I was drawn in by the story & couldn't wait to find out how it ended. I do wish there was an actual Aurora album in existence! I don't do audio books, but I almost wish I had for this one...I hear it was excellent.
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"I think you have to have faith in people before they earn it. Otherwise it's not faith, right?"
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I am so proud of the great readers both Eli and Emma have become...especially Eli. The Easter Bunny brought them their first chapter books. Junie B. Jones for Emma and Magic Tree House for Eli. They both dove in and Eli finished his in a weekend! Eli doesn't like to take too many pictures, but he was so proud of himself he agreed.
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream."
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I am actually reading again. I hit a slump so to speak. My mind was not in the right place until now I suppose. Hopefully the comeback lasts. I am loving the mind of Eleanor Oliphant, but I do have a very dry sense of humour.
A book haul from this summer that I have been meaning to post.
I have been in a terrible reading slump...still working on A Secret History...
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A birthday card from Eli...the highlight of being in the hospital on my birthday...
Happy Birthday card from Emmie...the highlight of being in the hospital for my birthday..
It isn't much, but...yay 500!
pickI absolutely loved being inside Joe's head...your lovable neighborhood stalker and serial killer. 😅 I am looking forward to the sequel.
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pick"You know, you can start all kinds of relationships in your life, Nadine continues. But you only start life once. And you start it with a limited number of people. Those people, they do something to you."
"It's maddenly painful not to be able to speak with the dead. But maybe what Zelda was trying to tell me is that it's nearly as difficult to speak with the living."
Slower moving mystery, but I luxuriated in the slow unwinding of this family.
Interesting setting...I am from the N.Y. Finger Lakes region...
Emma Watson on books...in Vanity Fair.
pickMaria: "Why do you say those things. Why do you fight?"
Carter: "To find out if you're alive."
This was my first experience with Joan Didion's fiction. The prose is sparse, but it packs a big punch. The story is dark, but moving. Maria is empty, but alive. It reminds me of Yate's Revolutionary Road in some ways. Read it...it could be read in one sitting!
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"It was something people did when they did not know what else to do, they went to New York for a few days."
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My current life while in SC...
This is the last of my quotes posts for My Life on the Road...I promise!
Also: "No wonder oral history turns out to be more accurate than written history. The first is handed down from the many who were present. The second is written by the few who probably weren't. "
"...and even the supposedly enlightened idea that there are two sides to every question. In fact, many questions have three or seven or a dozen sides."
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"I'll see you on the other side of the mountain."-Native American goodbye upon death...
"Anyone who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts."
"You cannot think yourself into right living. You live yourself into right thinking. - Native Elders"
"You're always the person you were when you were born, she says impatiently. You just keep finding new ways to express it."
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"Not even in a movie had I ever seen a wife with a journey of her own. Marriage was always the happy end, not the beginning. It was the 1950s, and I confused growing up with settling down."
"I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was an endemic among female beings. Anger is supposed to be unfeminine, so we suppress it-until it overflows."
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pickNo matter your gender, class, race, politics, etc...this is a book you should read. It's really a look at how the road can teach us about community and about how a circle rather than a pyramid hierarchy is a better paradigm for society and our own lives. I especially enjoyed her experiences with Native American women and culture.
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"Laughter is an orgasm of the mind."
"...and given us all a shared meeting place: the simple truth."
"Only food and water are more important than music and privacy, he says seriously. I'm a rescuer." -private car service driver
"There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, as Ursula Le Guin wrote, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories."
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I am already wishing I had bought my own copy of this one rather than checking it out at the library...so many great quotes and thoughts and ideas to mark up!
Like:
"If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye."
"I began to see that for some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn't criticize."
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Also: "His body in the bedroom filled the small square in the corner of the screen. Amazing how his world could be compressed in this way-how small it was, how insignificant."
"It came from the mountain or it came from within herself. There was no meaning in lying down. There was no explanation, no relief ... She wanted to die for what she had done, but she was 18 years old: she wanted to live. There was only the decision to get up."
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pickIf you are a YA fan, I would definitely check out Johnson's new novel that looks at high school life in this age of social media. It is beautifully written and I liked that the story is presented through the lens of various interconnected characters. I may have especially enjoyed it because one of the characters is a high school English teacher...something I studied to be...and I could relate to her struggles and where her mind set was.
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