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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.
...be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
- Susan Sontag -
...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 -
وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا الْقُرْآنَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِنْ مُدَّكِرٍ ..
****سورة القمر
طهرو مسَآمِعكم َ .. ~
...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]
Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace
Fox News Contributor
Sunday Panel
www.goodreads.com/book/show/1005906.Cooking_with_Grease?a...
or her newer book Hacks:
amazon.com/Hacks-Inside-Break-ins-Breakdowns-Donald/dp/03...
“Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.”
- Eugene S. Wilson -
...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
I try to document 15 books a year on my Goodreads app. So thats a little over a book a month. But I am already falling behind this year. So I am trying to catch up this month.
The books I read in 2014, a screenshot of the middle section.
See domesticat.net/2014/12/year-books-came-back-me for more explanation.