View allAll Photos Tagged GoodReads
“...every person has a star, every star has a friend, and for every person carrying a star there is someone else who reflects it, and everyone carries this reflection like a secret confidante in the heart.”
- Orhan Pamuk, Snow -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/connectedness
Part of me (any part of you, family friend please www.todaysposting.com/TPAssignment.php?TP=505
Goodreads Description - Another vampire novel? Really?
How about a vampire novel about single motherhood? And Otis Redding? And best friends? And how choose whom you kill? And what that costs? And whether there's ever a way back?
On a rare night out in Charlotte, North Carolina, Natalie and Sophie-best friends, single moms, music lovers- meet the Whistler at the Back Way Out. In the aftermath of that encounter, desperate to save their children and, just maybe, themselves, they flee together down the back roads of the Deep South, pursued by guilt, the Whistler and his Mother, and their own growing, terrible hunger
***********************************************************************************************************************************
My Review - I don't enjoy leaving negative reviews or not finishing a book, but I have to call them like i see it and I absolutley hated this book. I could only get to page 50 before I had to put it down. The story to me had potential, but the writing (to me) was horrible. It was strange and it made no sense as the direction it was headed. It seemed to be all over the place without a clear thought as to where it was headed. That is me though and I don't recommend you not read it based on what I said.
I was perusing Goodreads Quotes and came across this one from Jeanette Winterson that I like (so I made an image to go with it).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanette_Winterson
Created with fd's Flickr Toys
in vicinity of Swakop River
location on map is very approximate
from Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire -
There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount, a perfect ratio of water to rock, of water to sand, insuring that wide, free, open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the West so different from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here, unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.
reminds me of this book - www.goodreads.com/book/show/506097.The_Sheltering_Desert
collections of sets, e.g. mountains by range, lichens by genera - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections/
“Cactus, flower, fuck-off, love, roses”, explores and celebrates female identity. The piece is a follow-up to "Flower Girl". The title of the project comes from “tags” listed on the website Goodreads, for the quote “Roses may say “I love you,” but the cactus says “Fuck-off”, by J. Kintz.
The project presents in 2 parts: a multi-channel video installation, and a live performance where the videos become both backdrop and dance partner. Mark your calendar, the performance takes place, in collaboration with MaZi Dance Chicago, this October.
As with “Flower Girl”, a key component of “cactus, flowers, fuck-off, love, roses” resides with the symbolic connection between flowers and women. The piece includes multiple videos of women (of various ages, body types and ethnicity) who respond to the symbolic meaning of a flower of their choosing. In the videos each participant performs 2 distinct movements: one surrendering to her flower’s motif, and a second passage rejecting its claim. Each woman owns her flower, becomes her, moving with or against her flower’s nature, while at least 1 foot remains immobile, like a stem imbedded in soil. In the live performance the women break free, but they continue to struggle with long imbedded ideologies, their movements raw and personal.
Flowers in the piece were chosen for their floriographic name, based on the Victorian Era practice of communicating through flowers. Flowers have been a symbol for femininity and womanhood since ancient times, but the Victorians created an elaborate code and system for non-verbal communication. The nuances of the language are mostly forgotten, but the implications for women still linger – the perfect woman must still be pure (Lotus) of body, innocent (Daisy) in spirit, and a wildcat (Dahlia) in bed.
...a mirage. People, situations, and relationships sometimes change for the worst but inevitably clear a path for far better replacements. The continued journey will always find bliss.”
- Carl Henegan -
📚 The Need for Good Reads "YOUNG LOCS on the WESTSIDE Part I & II Still Locin Up!" by Legendary Ali Amazon & Over the Edge Books 📚 #beverlyhills #change #raw #thatsdarling #needtoread #readmore #bookstagram #exotics #moneyandviolence #bookmarket #goodreads #author #urbanlife #darkfantasy #kindlereading #ereader #legendaryali #Overtheedgebooks #younglocsonthewestsidepart2 #younglocspart2 amzn.com/1944082107
From Goodreads - www.goodreads.com/book/show/678673.Cold_Rock_River
In 1963 rural Georgia, with the Vietnam War cranking up, pregnant seventeen-year-old Adie Jenkins discovers the diary of pregnant seventeen-year-old Tempe Jordan, a slave girl. As "Cold Rock River" comes to its surprising, shocking, endings, questions of family, race, love, loss, and longing are loosed from the mysterious secrets that have been kept for too long and the depth of the mysterious connection between two women united by place and separated by race and a hundred years is revealed.
***********************************************************************************************************************************
My Review:
Where do I start? I'm not so sure. The plot was ok, but was not spectacular. The first 100 pages or so I wanted to bang my head against the wall wondering if the story was ever going to take off and why the hell the story was so disjointed. The next 100 or so pages I wondered when the hell Adie was going to grow the hell up and stop acting like some puppy whose owner kicks it daily. Talk about being slow. Bucks brother seemed to have more common sense than this girl. Finally the last 100 pages or so builds up, throws a curveball in, and then levels out. I think the only thing that saved the book was Tempe's diary and even that I had some issues with. I've never ever met an author who tried so very hard to write a black woman and fail miserably. I have read several books that have been written by those who had been slaves and the language flowed. The voice the author used for Tempe was just...strange, odd, and a bit unbelievable. The idea was there, but could have been written better.
...We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don't we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry!”
- C. JoyBell C.-
"The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page or follow me on tumblr:
www.facebook.com/pages/Dawn-Arsenaux/180288508725296
msarsenauxhere.tumblr.com/
msneauxneaux.tumblr.com/
“Cactus, flower, fuck-off, love, roses”, explores and celebrates female identity. The piece is a follow-up to "Flower Girl". The title of the project comes from “tags” listed on the website Goodreads, for the quote “Roses may say “I love you,” but the cactus says “Fuck-off”, by J. Kintz.
The project presents in 2 parts: a multi-channel video installation, and a live performance where the videos become both backdrop and dance partner. Mark your calendar, the performance takes place, in collaboration with MaZi Dance Chicago, this October.
As with “Flower Girl”, a key component of “cactus, flowers, fuck-off, love, roses” resides with the symbolic connection between flowers and women. The piece includes multiple videos of women (of various ages, body types and ethnicity) who respond to the symbolic meaning of a flower of their choosing. In the videos each participant performs 2 distinct movements: one surrendering to her flower’s motif, and a second passage rejecting its claim. Each woman owns her flower, becomes her, moving with or against her flower’s nature, while at least 1 foot remains immobile, like a stem imbedded in soil. In the live performance the women break free, but they continue to struggle with long imbedded ideologies, their movements raw and personal.
Flowers in the piece were chosen for their floriographic name, based on the Victorian Era practice of communicating through flowers. Flowers have been a symbol for femininity and womanhood since ancient times, but the Victorians created an elaborate code and system for non-verbal communication. The nuances of the language are mostly forgotten, but the implications for women still linger – the perfect woman must still be pure (Lotus) of body, innocent (Daisy) in spirit, and a wildcat (Dahlia) in bed.
Goodreads Description - As a teenager, Karena Jorge had always been the one to look out for her twin brother Charles, who suffers from bipolar disorder. But as Charles begins to refuse medication and his manic tendencies worsen, Karena finds herself caught between her loyalty to her brother and her fear for his life. Always obsessed with the weather-enraptured by its magical unpredictability that seemed to mirror his own impulses—Charles starts chasing storms, and his behavior grows increasingly erratic . . . until a terrifying storm chase with Karena ends with deadly consequences, tearing the twins apart and changing both of their lives forever.
Two decades later, Karena gets a call from a psychiatric ward in Wichita, Kansas, to come pick up her brother, whom she hasn't seen or spoken to for twenty years. She soon discovers that Charles has lied to the doctors, taken medication that could make him dangerously manic, and disappeared again. Having exhausted every resource to try and track him down, Karena realizes she has only one last chance of finding him: the storms. Wherever the tornadoes are, that's where he'll be. Karena joins a team of professional stormchasers-passionate adventurers who will transform her life and give her a chance at love and redemption—and embarks on an odyssey to find her brother before he reveals the violent secret from their past and does more damage to himself . . . or to someone else.
*****************************************************************************************************************
My Review - I really think Jenna Blum did an outstanding job on this book despite many negative reviews I have read. Of course this is not like her first book, it doesn't have to be. I really wish people would quit trying to compare apples to oranges and just enjoy this for what it is.
Now that I go that out of my system, I really liked the story line. I loved all the characters despite their issues. When you are dealing with someone you love and their bi-polarism life can and will be very difficult at times. Kudos to Karena for the love and devotion that she showed to her twin brother Charles. She may not have always acted in the correct way, but the motivation behind her actions were understandable. All she wanted ever was to help her brother deal with his issues. I could never really fault Charles for the way that he sometimes dealt with his bi-polarism. It really sucks when the meds you are on that are supposed to help you make you sicker than a dog and do things to your personality that make you lose who you really are.
My only issue with the book was towards the very end when Kevin learns what happened when the twins were 18 and he cuts off contact with Kareena and then calls her right before the twins turn themselves in. Then the book jumps a year and they are married. Well what happened in between? What made Kevin forgive Karena? How did he do it? What happened during that year? I really feel like that should have been explored and written about. It feels like a whole chunk of information was left out.
بعدما قرأت تلك الرسالة للرائع جمال الغيطاني لم أملك إلا صنع تلك اللوحة الصغير لأتذكر بها ما عشته خلال رحلة مطالعتلي لها
- a selfie on 13-10-29... (monotype print on paper by me today). Learning feeling like this I've experienced recently - in a productive way :)
“When you don't know where to start,
just go to a place you miss so much.”
- Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident - www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/confused
<= ideally, that place for making confusing learning less unbearable - is your personal learning environment / space / ecosystem!
📚 That 5-STAR TRIPLE BAR READ ☝BBD "EVERYTHING IS MENTAL" the Very Fly Story of BELL BIV DEVOE told by Jai Davis👑 Amazon & Over the Edge Books "The best bio I've read since Rick James dropped his" -Tray D #bellbivdevoe #neweditionmovie #happymonday #books #biography #memoirs #bestseller #goodread #lit
Hosted by Goodreads Indonesia at Pasar Festival, Kuningan. Great event, me, Nulisbuku.com and other writers + book lovers are having a great time!
so, i love to read. i read like, three books at a time, at least. i read quickly and i like to keep books instead of trading them in for something different. i've stolen at least one book from a library in three states. i pick up free local magazines and cut out pieces to make magnets with. and these are how i spend my nights. being a book nerd.
and the sad part? i am missing at least twenty books from this picture. i am too nice and i loan books out to people who never seem to give them back. so, next time? we're trading. that way either way, i don't lose a book.
photo © by juliette e. lacour
Got a cat condo last week. Great deal on ebay, less than 1/3rd of retail price, which is good because the more you spend on a cat the less they use it. So since I didn't spend much, they adore it. =) 1 point for cat staff, zip for cats.
Love his big paws. Polydactyl, aka Hemingway, kitties rock.
If you are interested in a print of this image, please email me and I will list one in My Store! I will also create custom products such as greeting cards for you.
© Julia Grace Arts
Do NOT reproduce, use, or distribute without permission. Check out my usage guidelines here.
Please DO Feature on Flickr, Pin, Share, or Tweet my work!
Quick Links
Photostream | Profile | My Website | Store | Blog | Twitter | Facebook | deviantART | Pinterest | Goodreads
In this remarkable memoir, a young lady confronts her autism and reconciles her world with the world at large, to become a "somebody somewhere," to define autism and not let it define her. My Goodreads review:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/18341648-kebnekaise
Kebnekaise är en lika personlig som fängslande skildring av vårt mäktiga fjällområde. Författaren känner detta massiv som få och låter oss i ord och bild uppleva det både vertikalt och horisontelt. Framställningen bygger på samspelet, motsatser och jämnvikten i alla de skiftningar, som årstidernas och dygnets växlingar erbjuder den som kan se, höra och lyssna till naturens eviga rytm, Hans språk blir lyriskt, nar han med sällsynt inlevelse skildrar de silvervita dagarna och de blonda nätterna, vars ljus "kan höras" och vars vind "smakar", eller den kala tystnaden i december, med "gryningsdager som en blåskimrande slöja, flor över stelnade bränningar". Ur hans fängslande färdberättelser, kompletterade av ett utsökt bildmaterial i färg och svartvitt, som ställer honom i främsta ledet av fjällfotografer, kan också utläsas väsentliga fakta om dalgångar, toppar, sjöar och jåkkar med deras fauna och flora. Härtill bidrager en specialkomponerad karat i ett nytt maner. Ett särskilt kapitel ägnas åt människan i Kebnekaise, vad man gjort där uppe och vad man bör göra i fratiden. Man behöver inte själv ha gått i Kebnekaisefjällen eller efter Kungsleden för att ha glädje av denna bok.- den vänder sig till varje fjäll- och naturvän
Spy... for Nobody!: Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence "
by Basel Saneeb
(Goodreads Syrian Author)
Happy Caturday!
Lilybelle - 4 months old
Whuli-Bear is finally up and running!! Yay!
S Jersey Grrl WordPress
Nature Of Alexander -- "The acclaimed biography of Alexander the Great." -- from www.goodreads.com
I enjoyed reading and learning more about Alexander. Renault's style can be a little long winded and this book was incredibly dense -- a great deal of information was compacted into a relatively short book -- which made it a little overwhelming to read. Her sympathy for Alexander was obvious and, at times, made it seem more as if she were talking about a high school crush rather than an ancient military/political leader. Despite her bias, the book was well researched and full of interesting information.
------------------------------------------------------------------
Dancer From Atlantis -- "An experiment in the future gone awry...and Duncan Reid, American architect of the 20th century, came out of unconciousness to find himself hopelessly marooned in the far distant past.
Bound to him were three of the strangest humans he had ever encountered... a medieval Russian, and a fourth-century Hun, and a sacred priestess who worshiped him as a god. And all shared the same fate--pulled through a hole in time to a present which was ancient history. Together the quartet formed a strange alliance which none dared break. For not only were their own futures at stake... but the very future of the world they had found..." -- from www.goodreads.com
I stumbled on this book by accident during an internet search about ancient greece, and I am very glad that I did. It was an interesting book, well-written and a different sort of story that I had assumed it would be. Most time travel stories seem to follow a formula of awkward out-of-time protagonist desperately searching for a way back to his/her own time. Whereas in this story, the out-of-place characters became very involved in the time period they landed in, giving the sense that they were meant to be there. An excellent book.
The Nature Of Alexander -- Started: May 19, 2013 Finished: June 3, 2013
The Dancer From Atlantis -- Started: May 23, 2013 Finished: May 27, 2013
25 Book Challenge 2013 Books #36 & #37