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Medium sized Viking holding a large coffee*.
*https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29415186-beautiful-wreck?ac=1&from_search=true
Ruby made "Yet Another World" which features prominently in "Chronic City", a book you MUST READ coz it references SL !!! www.goodreads.com/book/show/6085191-chronic-city
2015ean zehar GoodReads.era gehitutako liburuen eta irakurketen laburpena. GoodReads aplikazioak automatikoki ateratzen duen infografia xinple baina adierazgarria.
From Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/12913325-between-shades-of-gray
It's 1941 and fifteen-year-old artist Lina Vilkas is on Stalin's extermination list. Deported to a prison camp in Siberia, Lina fights for her life, fearless, risking everything to save her family. It's a long and harrowing journey and it is only their incredible strength, love, and hope that pull Lina and her family through each day. But will love be enough to keep them alive?
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My Review:
I had to sit and think about what I wanted to write for a day before I actually tried to write this review. I am familiar with most of what happened during the era this book was set in, but I will have to admit that I knew absolutley nothing of what Russia did to those from Lithuania and the other Baltic States. It was absolutley horrifying how these people were treated. I will never be able to understand how another human being can treat another human being like they are nothing more than a common insect. I can't even fathom the scope of atrocities these people suffered at the hands of those who wanted to extinguish them from existance.
The book was quite captivating and held my intrest. The only thing I did not like was the ending. I really wanted to know more on how she got out of the camp and how she got back in touch with Andrius. I felt it lacked complete closure.
For a missed connection in Brooklyn, NY:
“you can take this mouth
this wound you want
but you can't kiss
and make it
better.”
See the child lift his arms up to the beauty of the sky. Glad I caught that on film. Refreshing view!
Goodreads quote:
"Imagine that the whole world belongs to you. The birch trees in New Hampshire's White Mountains are yours, and so are the cirrus clouds in the western sky at dusk and the black sand on the beaches of Hawaii's big island.
You own everything, my dear sovereign - the paintings in all the museums of the world, as well as the internet and the wild horses and the roads. Please take good care of it all, OK? Be an enlightened monarch who treats your domain with reverent responsibility. And make sure you also enjoy the full measure of fun that comes with such mastery. Glide through life as if all of creation is yearning to honor and entertain you."
— Rob Brezsny
Dailyshoot Challenge: Make a photograph today that features the sky.
...not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams.”
― Ray A. Davis www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/dreams-inspirational
A page from The Girl from the Sea by Molly Ostertag (2021). Reviewed here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/4039400602
...you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.”
- Joseph Campbell -
...my heart makes its way
however it can over the rough ground
of uncertainties, but only until night
meets and then is overwhelmed by
morning, the light deepening, the
wind easing and just waiting, as I
too wait (and when have I ever been
disappointed?) for redbird to sing”
- Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings -
For a missed connection in Brooklyn, NY: “The mouth is made for communication, and nothing is more articulate than a kiss.”
...that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.”
- Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking -
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
- W.B. Yeats -
...to both art and life. Neither can be made. I try to act in that gap between the two.
- 1959, from a catalogue”
- Robert Rauschenberg -
...and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.”
- Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone -
“A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.”
― Shannon l. Alder www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/mom
Dubey ji Bounces Back
by Vivek Atray (Goodreads Author)
Synopsis:
Meek and morose is what Raghav Dubey has been all his life but when Sarla Koppikar wallops him on his head and almost kills him, Dubey ji decides to undergo a complete makeover. He shaves off his moustache, sheds his reticence in female company and even learns to play the guitar! His career graph now rockets skywards with his newfound zest and energy enabling him to work wonders at Mumbai's Bonny Bank. The beauteous Avni Singh bowls him over and he is left utterly lovestruck. Even the very charming Paulomi Bose fails to distract him. Dubey ji's bête noire is found dead and our hero is in deep trouble. Will he be able to bounce back again?
Vivek Atray, the Author
Vivek Atray is an Author, Advisor, Motivational Speaker, Formerly of the Indian Administrative Service, IAS and Mentor. He retired voluntarily from the IAS in 2017. He is an ex-under 19 cricketer. He speaks all over India on topics such as Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, People Skills and Behavioural Issues. He has over 20 Lakh (2 million) views on YouTube.
He is the founder of SUVICHAR Think Tank, Professor at Shoolini University, member of the CSR Advisory Board of ACTION AID and a member of the Governor’s Advisory Council for Chandigarh. He is also a founder of the Vibrant Networking Forum and the Chandigarh Literary Society, and Co-Convenor of INTACH Chandigarh. ncairways.in/amazon-books/
...song of September begins to whisper in my ear, my passionate spirit yearns for the splendor of its promise.”
― Peggy Toney Horton www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/september
—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
― Henry James www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/summer
...have the warmth of summer in their briefer hours, but in their lengthening evenings a prophetic breath of autumn.”
― Rowland E. Robinson www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/september
“Use your natural powers - of persistence, concentration, and insight - to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems, make art, and think deeply”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/deep-thinking
...strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss.”
- Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/opposites
One word Tuesday: Split , post it then Tag it with #TP735
[akvarel monotype prints by me today]
This book is pure genius. I am obsessed with the hippie counter-culture so this explains my obsession even more.
New group: Dead Poet's Society.
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
- Albert Einstein -
My paperbacks I packed away when I graduated from high school. Ever since I started an account on GoodReads.com, I've been trying to remember when I stored it away. I was sure it was in my parents garage, but several attempts turned up nothing. Finally, a couple weeks ago, I took a few days off work with the soul purpose of turning the garage inside out. Thankfully the weather cooperated, and after a scraped knee and a few nicks and bruises on my hands and arms, I finally found it. It wasn't in an old computer/monitor box as I originally thought, but instead was in my old stereo box. I had forgotten I lined the box with garbage bags in case it ever got wet from the bottom, which it slightly did. I was thrilled to open it and find them all in as good a condition as the day I packed them.