This well researched novel about the culture of the strong amazing Haenyeo, sea women, of Jeju Island in Korea is quite powerful and heartbreakingly emotional.
“Her house is a nest where she hides the joy, laughter, sorrows and regrets of her life.”
**Can you believe that I still have my copy of Heidi from when I was a very little girl!!!**

“His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.”

“I sit there and read on my Kindle while I wait for a fare. Hard to read a regular book once it gets dark, but the Kindle‘s just fine. Great fucking invention, if you‘ll pardon me for lapsing into my Native American tongue for a minute.”

“And for the millions of other smart, strong, courageous women doing heroic work around the world.”

“Scooby Dooby Doo where are you?”

“You‘ve been told too many stories,” said the old man, “and that‘s the truth in nutshell.”

“Their pasts were a mess. Their futures were uncertain. So, somewhere along the way they decided to live in the present with no regrets. Life could be worse. They could be studying for the bar exam.”

“According to the Blackfeet Indians, brown moths bring sleep and dreams.”

I was torn between a 3 and 4 but I thought a 4 was more appropriate because, good lord, Danielewski definitely tried to make a uniquely experimental book of fiction.

You have to wade through a lot to get to the underlying story of a complex 12 year old girl's life. Is it really worth the effort? Could this book be so popular because of name recognition only or because it is really a good book?

You'd have to be the judge of that.

"The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home." - Stephen King (stepping back to 1991)

"He walked out of nowhere toward nowhere, a man from another time who, it seemed, had reached a point of pointless ending." - Stephen King (the last time I was drawn here was in 1989)

"Go then, there are other worlds than these." Rereading this great series.

Almost to the end

Because parents need to laugh!!!!

“Before that she hadn‘t realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could knock it over and shatter it.”

"They took away her beautiful clothes, dressed her in an old gray smock, and gave her wooden shoes."

" 'ey yooooou, don't start to cry if you fry now it will be shiiiiiity, A pity! If you turn into a heap! Cos it's my turn to sweep! And take out the ashes."

New short story, "Bookshots" by James Patterson

"Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft."