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...you take it in and let it out.”
- Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone -
www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3505.Wally_Lamb
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Screenshot of the last 14 books I read in 2014.
See domesticat.net/2014/12/year-books-came-back-me for more explanation.
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.
“It's written, 'seek and ye shall find'. But first, 'imagine what you seek'.
Otherwise, you will end up searching everything everywhere forever.”
- Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut -
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!
When I saw "short" I had plans for very short people next to tall people, or a plug not reaching an outlet. But it's December 31 and all I can think about is how I fell SHORT of reaching several goals this year (hopefully 113 in 2013 won't be one of them! 5 more to go!)
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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...
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.
...my heart is held forever by this place," she said. "I cannot leave.”
- Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea -
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.
وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا الْقُرْآنَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِنْ مُدَّكِرٍ ..
****سورة القمر
طهرو مسَآمِعكم َ .. ~
“I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.”
- Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin -
MPoC on Twitter: because you never know when you might need Saint Augustine’s thoughts on musical farting. Medieval Farts On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages, Valerie Allen: www.goodreads.com/book/show/1488073.On_Farting The Stag Fart song: [Bulluc sterteþ, bucke uerteþ, ~The bullock stirs, the stag farts, Murie sing cuccu! ~Merrily sing, Cuckoo!] #InterdisciplinaryFartStudies
...stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.”
- Siri Hustvedt, The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/dreaming
Colour my week: Red, post it then Tag it with #TP755
...is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”
- Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/fragility
- Visualizing the quote... - the canvas version of my encounter art assignment under construction arrived.
- The sky looked surprisingly similar today (see the comment field):
Fragility conveys tension or balance, illustrate a person or object in a fragile state., post it then Tag it with #TP416 - Environment Emotion; convey a feeling or state of mind either in the subject or something that you are emotional about. How best to deliver an image that shows us the emotion or the activity leading up to or after the crunch point or the thing that is making you emotional such as filling the frame perhaps.
“Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.”
- Meister Eckhart -
“Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart.”
- Marguerite Duras, Summer Rain -
...obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles -
“We are our choices.”
- Jean-Paul Sartre -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/choices
Colour my week: Light Gray/Grey, post it then Tag it with #TP748
Romantic suspense with BDSM subplot.
Meet the first in the Fareious brothers. Men who will do anything to save their woman.
Celebrating Todaysposting #300 :)
“Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.”
- Epictetus, The Discourses of Epictetus -
This week's quote is "A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know." attributed to Diane Arbus.
I’ve gathered some of my previous images in Rolling Along...
Quote 29 of 40.