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For a missed connection in Raleigh-Durham, NC: “The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
- W.B. Yeats -
Penguin paperback from the mid-2000s. Slightly worn cover, but still in good condition. A delightful bit of fantasy.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/27712.The_Neverending_Story?f...
“For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.”
- Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/embodiment
- two previous versions completed in Dec. 2013 embedded in the comment fields below
Massive thanks to Pauline aka Mrs Doyle from Father Ted, for this amazing donation to my raffle, raising funds for children's literacy. www.oceansproject.com
Hosted by Goodreads Indonesia at Pasar Festival, Kuningan. Great event, me, Nulisbuku.com and other writers + book lovers are having a great time!
A visit to the library yields: All Families Are Psychotic, Microserfs, and Generation X. Here's to a schizophrenic July...
"We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locked into being the person we used to be, or think we are."
- Allan Lokos (Pocket Peace) -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/mindfulness
"Make a photograph dominated by dark tones today."
A page from The Girl from the Sea by Molly Ostertag (2021). Reviewed here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/4039400602
Lou Habash | Metaphysics | 8/22/2013 | Image source: www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1354897-we-are-open---the-me...
...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 -
...I’d carry that around instead of a driver’s license for ID. You are what’s named after you.”
- Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title -
"We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath."
- Lawrence Binyon -
From Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/1314332.Before_I_Die?ac=1
Tessa has just a few months to live.
Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It's her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is sex.
Released from the constraints of 'normal' life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up.
Tessa's feelings, her relationships with her father and brother, her estranged mother, her best friend, her new boyfriend, all are painfully crystallized in the precious weeks before Tessa's time finally runs out.
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My review - This was a hard book to read knowing what was going to happen at the end. I saw quite a bit of criticism of the book and wondered how anyone could really know exactly what they would do if they were in this situation. Being told your dying is one thing, but being only 16 years old and being told your going to die is pretty heavy. Tessa did some crazy things, but I can'y in good faith say I would have never have done the same. People deal with death in their own ways. You don't have to agree with it, but you should understand why they do the things they do. It's a powerful novel and it draws you straight in to her world.
...that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.”
- Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception -
...fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
- Honoré de Balzac -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/solitude
[thank you @peeii for the photo]
2016 Project 365 (366?) Day 7.
Not a great picture today. It's hard to think of something to photograph when it's been a really busy day.
I've challenged myself to read 50 books on Goodreads. I read a lot anyway, but I have my last year of Uni and Teacher Training to worry about this year!
by Pasi Saarelma (washboard, voc.), Jarmo Nissinen (bj.) and Alvi Leppälä (cl.)
“Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.”
- W. Somerset Maugham -
“Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.”
- Epictetus -
What I'm reading tonight...
a old favorite.
This book's cover is a particular favorite of mine-- Jody A. Lee is an amazing artist and usually any book illustrated by her has at least a 50% or better chance of being right up my alley.