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Here's another shot of the Antwerp train station..maybe not as cinematic in the architectural sense but rich with the human sense either way. This quote is taken from the novel Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo. This is an interesting reflection on marriage, polygamy, and the blaming of women in a patriarchal society when childbirth does not occur from a Nigerian perspective.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/32969150-stay-with-me
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March 19, 2018
Macro Mondays Theme: #OnceUponATime
Classic Fairytale
The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor
”As a young man, Sinbad foolishly squanders all his money. With no skills and no prospect of a job, he joins a merchant vessel and sets sail from Baghdad, to trade and seek his fortune in the world. But Sinbad soon discovers he has a taste for adventure and a love for the open water, and before long he has embarked upon seven incredible voyages - seven adventures full of terrifying monsters, enchanted islands, spectacular deeds and unimaginable treasures. So hop aboard with Sinbad and be swept away by tales of peril, heroism, shipwreck and survival. This has to be one of the greatest adventure stories of all time.”
source: www.goodreads.com/book/show/33377074-the-seven-voyages-of...
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A monster lives in my pool. I don’t know how it got there. It only comes out at night.
I first saw it when I went for a swim one night. There it was, lurking in the corner. I was scared witless. I ran away screaming. I did not call the police. Who would believe me?
One morning, I awoke to find my glasses on the back porch. The glasses I had lost in the swimming pool. Somebody had placed a flower beside my glasses.
Later that same day, I left some biscuits by the poolside. Nobody touched them during the day. In the morning, they were gone.
This all happened some weeks ago.
Now I lie awake at night, listening. Waiting and listening in the dark. I like listening in the dark. It’s wonderfully relaxing, to listen in the dark. Waiting for the monster.
I hear the garden door open, gently. I hear naked, wet feet tiptoe towards the kitchen. I hear the fridge door open. I hear the satisfying sound of munching. Isn’t it wonderful?
At night, I don’t bother locking my front door anymore. You’d have to be crazy to break into my house. I have a monster living in my pool. It's in the kitchen right now.
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(Inspired by ‘Mrs. Caliban’, by Rachel Ingalls, 2017)
For further info:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/34377087-mrs-caliban
Moderate safety level so I don't scare kiddies and grandma's.
The monster in the pool: Kangsom
(Kangsom is not a monster in real life, let me assure you, she is a very nice person. We’re just versatile).
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This quote is taken from a really strange book by a Croatian author, Olja Savičević Ivančević. The book is actually called Adios, Cowboy and it's postmodern and quite edgy. I had never read anything from a Croatian author and have never been so I thought it would be worth a read. Here's a link to more info:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/25777995-adios-cowboy
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Prague. Literature excerpt taken from the novel The Wanderers by Meg Howrey, an interesting book that uses some aspects of space as well as exploration of the character of different humans that might one day explore it.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/29966530-the-wanderers
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As I was saying before, Ottawa was really cold but there was also a strange energy when my parents first drove in because it was Boxing Day, which is the day after Christmas when there are the most amount of sales...and so, most people were out and about even when they would have rather probably been cozy at home watching a film.
Today, I finished Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury Inside the Trump White House and started a book that has been on my list for awhile where the excerpt is from. Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Japanese Author Yōko Tawada. Here's a link to the Goodreads page for it in case you're interested...but anyway, some of these quotes fit in right with my recent real life experiences.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/29082575-memoirs-of-a-polar-bear
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January 15, 2018
Macro Mondays Theme: #MyFavouriteNovel(Fiction)
Terminal Alliance (Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse #1) by by Jim C. Hines (Goodreads Author)
"When the Krakau came to Earth, they planned to invite humanity into a growing alliance of sentient species.
This would have worked out better for all involved if they hadn’t arrived after a mutated plague wiped out half the planet, turned the rest into shambling, near-unstoppable animals, and basically destroyed human civilization. You know—your standard apocalypse.
The Krakau’s first impulse was to turn their ships around and go home. After all, it’s hard to establish diplomatic relations with mindless savages who eat your diplomats.
Their second impulse was to try to fix us.
A century later, human beings might not be what they once were, but at least they’re no longer trying to eat everyone. Mostly.
Marion “Mops” Adamopoulos is surprisingly bright (for a human). As a Lieutenant on the Earth Mercenary Corps Ship Pufferfish, she’s in charge of the Shipboard Hygiene and Sanitation team. When a bioweapon attack by an alien race wipes out the Krakau command crew and reverts the rest of the humans to their feral state, only Mops and her team are left with their minds intact.
Escaping the attacking aliens—not to mention her shambling crewmates—is only the beginning. Sure, Mops and her assortment of space janitors and plumbers can clean the ship, but flying the damn thing is another matter. As they struggle to keep the Pufferfish functioning and find a cure for their crew, they stumble onto a conspiracy that could threaten the entire alliance."
I've been meaning to build something from my favorite fantasy series The Stormlight Archive out of LEGO for quite some time. If you haven't read the series, I highly recommend it. The books are full of magic, mystery, spellbinding fight scenes and wonderful characters and a perfect escape during the time of COVID!
It's hard to believe that the last build I posted was over a year ago! So much has happened since then. Globally with COVID, lockdowns and living through a pandemic and personally, with a job change and getting engaged recently. Needless to say, my have hands have been full and kept away from LEGO more than I would like. But I'm still here, building when I can and enjoying watching the community continuing to thrive and grow from a distance - and I look forward to going to an in-person LEGO convention at some point in the future when they return!
For those who are interested, You can find a couple more pictures of the build on my Website
“These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.”
― Rabindranath Tagore
www.goodreads.com/quotes/587557-these-paper-boats-of-mine...
(#3)
Novel by Yōko Tawada
www.goodreads.com/book/show/29082575-memoirs-of-a-polar-bear
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Apple crisps
Lately Im busy with Spring Challenge on Goodreads, You know finding new books for each task take lot of time and I love reading ... but I will explore your photostreams at this weekend :)
I promise.
Anyone fancy take a part in challenge is very welcome :)
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Historical image - cultural show. Shot in 2014 at the Golden Karaweik Palace, Yangon, Myanmar.
You may better know Yangon as Rangoon. The old name for Myanmar is Burma.
Today the country is ravaged by civil war. Myanmar has a tragic history and is one of the poorest countries in SE Asia. I have many fond memories of Myanmar, I have visited several times during peaceful, much more hopeful times. Millions of Burmese work in neighboring countries, mostly as unskilled laborers at minimum wage, supporting their families back home to the best of their abilities. The country is rich in natural resources and has tremendous potential for tourism.
Recommended read: Miss Burma, by Charmaine Craig (2017).
www.goodreads.com/book/show/32508630-miss-burma
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Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree Translated by Daisy Rockwell
the story begins in northern india with two women and one death.
gradually the story's path unfurls, more characters are introduced, they come and go, borders, doors and walls are characters as much as the people in this story ... the grandmother 'ma' is in deep depression after the death of her husband, she turns her back on her family and refuses to leave her bed, the writing is witty and detailed. i'm on page 184 and 'ma' has gone missing ... i'm hooked
thebookerprizes.com thebookerprizes.com/sites/default/files/2022-04/tomb-of-s...
reviews www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58703758
background fabric a charity shop find
if you have any book or reading recommendations a discussion page by tong www.flickr.com/photos/tongkm/ has been posted www.flickr.com/groups/a_personal_viewpoint/discuss/721577...
The "Ransom Gillis" house after the tower fell off and before being mothballed.
This is my first view of this famous house. I was saddened to have never seen the tower intact as that was the most distinctive feature. It has since this time been mothballed by developers and is, at least, no longer in danger of being torn down.
The house has a long and sometimes very sad history. It was designed by Henry Brush, a talented and successful architect who, nonetheless, took his life at age 29. The Ransom Gillis family only lived in the house for a year and then built another house next door and settled there for many years. Recently a book was written of it's history by John Kossik. Information about the house and book here:
www.63alfred.com/ransomgillishousepics.htm
And a youtube clip here:
www.goodreads.com/videos/10553-ransom-gillis-house
Scenes from the interior in ruin:
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
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5/80 (days left in 2011)
Any of you on goodreads?
I would love it if you 'liked' my Facebook Page
and... I started a Tumblr
Dewey~Book about the small-town library cat who touched the world. Both of us can appreciate this book.
Appartengo, fin dal principio, al cielo?
Se non v'appartengo, perché
mi ha fissato così, per un attimo,
con il suo sguardo infinitamente azzurro,
e mi ha attirato lassù, con la mia mente,
in alto, sempre più in alto,
e senza tregua mi seduce e mi trascina
verso altezze remote all'umano?
Da ICARO di Yukio Mishima, in "Sole e acciaio"
il testo completo qui:
it.netlog.com/DarkRulez/blog/blogid=2002835
Do I, then, belong to the heavens?
Why, if not so, should the heavens
Fix me thus with their ceaseless blue stare,
Luring me on, and my mind, higher
Ever higher, up into the sky,
Drawing me ceaselessly up
To heights far, far above the human?
From ICARUS by Yukio Mishima, in "Sun and steel"
www.goodreads.com/quotes/549375-do-i-then-belong-to-the-h...
"Angeli" è il titolo della mostra di Igor Mitoraj tenutasi a Pisa tra il 2014 e il 2015. Il manifesto della mostra è una splendida foto in bianco e nero di questo angelo con la cattedrale e la torre come sfondo. La posizione effettiva in cui la statua è stata esposta (proprio sotto la Torre) rendeva impossibile la prospettiva del manifesto.
“Angeli” is the title of Igor Mitoraj’s exhibition at the Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa between 2014 and 2015.
(#2)
Novel by Yōko Tawada
www.goodreads.com/book/show/29082575-memoirs-of-a-polar-bear
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"They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming."
— Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)
Classic Raven Series #1
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Kentucky's freedom of religion
A glimpse from the second floor onto the first floor of the Cane Ridge Meeting House. Constructed in 1791, this building was part of a famous Kentucky revival of 1801 that contributed to the Second Great Awakening in America. The book Dr. Thomas Clark's Kentucky Treasures points out, "Events at this log church in Bourbon County more than 200 years ago, helped change the course of religion in America."
Wikipedia describes this building and the importance of its 1801 revival as follows:
"The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the Churches of Christ (non-instrumental), and the Christian Churches (independent) of the Stone-Campbell movement trace their origins here. This movement is often noted as the first one indigenous to American soil."
The Cane Ridge Meeting House is one of eleven Kentucky treasures that University of Kentucky historian Prof. emeritus Thomas Clark said that every Kentuckian should visit in order to better appreciate their state.
4/365
Be proud and stand out from the crowd. I feel like that should be a slogan for something. Maybe it already is. It is an important message, whether it is already a slogan or not.
Today has been kind of pointless. I did not really feel like reading, which surprised me. There was nothing I wanted to watch on television, which did not surprise me. Two out of three photos did not go the way I wanted. I drove Kieran sixteen miles to his trampolining lesson, only to find the gates locked and the lights off because they do not start back until next week, so we drove straight home again, and other than about four olives and a couple of chocolate biscuits, I have not eaten today, mainly because I keep forgetting and I am simply not hungry.
One thing I have done today is set my Goodreads 2018 reading goal to 40 books, which is always my yearly book goal. Some years I surpass 40 books, other years I fall short either because I run out of book money or I run out of time. Or, as happened last year, because I decide to reread a lot of the books that I have already read to save money and to remind myself of how great they were.
Issue 2.7 - Never judge a book by its movie...
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Unashamedly taking inspiration from the Colin Walker book of the same name, I looked out of the north portal of Catesby Tunnel in an attempt to recreate the cover scene on one of my favourite books on the demise of the former Great Central Railway.
It's difficult to put an exact date on the photo which is a scanned slide, other than a best guess of mid 1970s.
Americans doing what is right in this moment and fighting for the rights of all humans including immigrants within our borders. This novel is actually considered juvenile fiction but I found it to be really well written. It is by the Jamaican-American author Nicola Yoon and is about a girl who is from Jamaica living in NYC and, on the day that she is to be deported, falls in love with a second generation Korean American boy. It had me laughing and crying...recommended.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/28763485-the-sun-is-also-a-star
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"Art that speaks to any of us always comes from a very particular place, and then we find ourselves in it in some kind of way." - Elizabeth Alexander
I recently - just today, stumbled upon Elizabeth Alexander's poetry and I like the way she writes so I'm jumping into her collection.
Actually, according to my Goodreads 2017 Reading Challenge, I've read 158 books so far this year. Ha ha ha, now we all know where my time for sleep goes and why the never disappearing eye bags. I'm no scholar or anything. I read a few children's book and a handful of poetry books. They're pretty easy reads which I do for the brain visuals. But MOST of the time I read the really mediocre novels. loll And the occasional science books that I enjoy but makes me sleep after 3 pages so yeah.
Okay, there's no point to this post. Goodnight.
If your memories aren't too bad then you'll remember last week that I posted my review for Chris Abani's Song For Night, a novella which centres on the wartime experiences of boy soldier My Luck.
So impressed and moved was I by Abani's fictional story that I wanted to read a bit deeper into the lives of boy soldiers, especially those embroiled in the trouble hotspots of Africa. Enter Ishmael Beah with A Long Way Gone (Harper Perennial), a true account of his time spent as a boy soldier in the war torn country of Sierra Leone. Here's the cover blurb:
This is the story of Ishmael Beah's childhood - how, aged just 12 he fled from rebels attacking his village to wander a violent land, before being conscripted into the army - where he learnt that he too was capable of terrible acts. Once he emerged he decided to tell his story, a story of the loss of innocence and the power of redemption.
Having read Song for Night this cover blurb could almost read as a carbon-copy for that book. But then I remember that A Long Way Gone is a true story, and that chills me to the bone. I'll let you know sometime in the future how I get on with it.
Harper Perennial | January 2008 (UK) | £7.99 | PAPERBACK | 250 PP | ISBN 9780007247097
You are not the last dream of my soul.
27/52
Well, Clockwork Princess came out on Tuesday. I woke up at 4 in the morning to start reading it and did not finish until 9 at night.
It was so perfect. Such a beautiful conclusion to such a perfect series. I adore all of Cassie Clare's books, but this may just be my new favorite by her. You can read my review of it on my Goodreads if you're interested, but Isabella and I are planning to start doing video book reviews and this one will be our first, so stay tuned.
I go to Florida on Tuesday. Yay spring break!
“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
This photo is from the book, "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan," which is a series of black and white photographs depicting the demolition of that part of the city in the late 1960's for urban redevelopment. (Though it is not mentioned in the book this was primarily for the construction of the World Trade Center) There are numerous photos like this one showing views of the architecture as it was disappearing as well as the people involved in tearing it all down and the interiors of empty buildings that would soon be gone.
This photo is captioned,
"174 Chambers Street at Bishop's Lane. This lane was nine and a half feet across at the widest point."
"What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one."
— Virginia Woolf (To the Lighthouse)
Day 54 - Best Viewed Large On Black
The light reveals itself from behind a passing cloud...
"Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they're also what tear you apart."
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
Quote taken from the startling and brilliant novel of the same name by Nicola Barker. Really fantastic read if any of you are looking for recommendations.
Here's my full review on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/237843379
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We are all filled with our own stories.
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino is one of my favorite novels.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/374233.If_on_a_Winter_s_Night...
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