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ITS REP DAY FEB 24, 2022
SWAN DAY HERE AT Zetapisigma
WHERE SWAN LIFE IS THE BEST LIFE
IM SWAN QUEEN CAPTIVATING CO-FOUNDER.........
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"... and probably as old as someone who attended nursery school many years ago. She was entirely dressed in articles of clothing, and have nothing on her feet except a pair of socks and two shoes." -The Unauthorized Autobiography of Lemony Snicket.
I wanted to do a picture with my books. The I realized I hardly own any books that aren't textbooks. Seriously this is it.
I have been reading "Dead Men Do Tell Tales- The strange and fascinating cases of a forensic anthropologist" for about 6 months now. It's not that I don't enjoy reading or am bad at it. I just am so busy and get so distracted that I can't.
Photo 63/365: "May be who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we are capable of when we least expect it" ~ Jodi Picoult, in My Sister's Keeper Such a beautiful book. #emotional #jodipicoult #quote #mysisterskeeper #reading #books #earlymorning #understandingpeople #understandourselves #365project #project365 #photo63 #canon #canon600d #eos600D
on 07/1709 i went to the movies with my friend, Nathan.
& we say Harry Potter.
then we snuck into My Sister's Keeper.
this is the theater for My Sister's Keeper.
it was completely empty.
the whole time.
we had a whole theater to our selves.
it was ton of fun <3
oh & both movies were really good.
"The earth's axis wobbles. Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be." -- Brian Fitzgerald (My Sister's Keeper)
The night I decided that I can't resist to put this book down and finished it at midnight, I cried myself to sleep, had palpitation, scarred heart and thoughts keep on popping on my mind.
You guys know that awesome moment when you read about an amazing moment and you have to breathe in and read it all over again to let it sink in? even though you completely understand what it said?
Abigail Breslin
WARNER BROS. PICTURE Presents the
World Premiere of MY SISTER'S KEEPER
AMC Lincoln Square Square 13, New York
June 24, 2009
While Zelda and Josie played, and Juan catapulted unhappy birds into wooden structures, I sat under a tree and picked up where I started.
Chris was so sweet and bought me all these books I told him I wanted to read this summer.
One of them is My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult.
Oh my gosh.
It's just so....
Let me put this in an understandable way.
Relatable. Minus the lawsuits Anna is putting her parents through. Or the relationship between Campbell and Julia (which I also find intimate). But the effects everyone's actions have on each other.
First of all, the older brother, Jesse. My older brother Zack could be his twin. Zack doesn't live with us anymore but he lives about six blocks away in a gang ridden neighborhood. I worry about him so much. My dad doesn't like me visiting him, because its so dangerous. The reason Zack moved away was because of mom. I cried when he left. I miss him so much, but sometimes I see him around town, with a beer in his hand, or a needle. But he doesn't set stuff on fire.
Beside's the brother situation, I remember when my mom was diagnosed with cancer. Me waking up one night and seeing take chunks of her hair out. It scared me, because I though only boys were bald. I remember I made my dad shave my hair off, so I could be just like my mom. Some of the girls in my classroom didn't know my mom had cancer, and they called her a freak and made fun of me.
All the nights I spent in the hospital waiting room. I went there so often, everyone knew my name. My brother kept telling me she was going to die, but I told him God would never let mom die because she loved Him so much.
But then one night, mom stopped breathing. We were in the room with her. I was about to fall asleep and then a loud, continuous beep sounded. All these doctors rushed in and me, my dad, Zack, and baby Juan were forced out.
When my dad told me she had gone to Heaven, I thought he meant that she went to Heaven and will be back. So I waited. And I waited. And I waited, until it finally hit me she was dead.
I promised myself I wouldn't ever care for anyone else. I hated those people who had cancer, and survived. Why couldn't my mom survive? She wasn't a bad person. She never lied. She was always there for me. I tried to avoid the topic of cancer, or illness.
Lucky for me, I made a friend, named Claire, who's brother has been battling cancer since he was three. It annoyed me he was still alive. As I spent more time around Claire, and Jake, I realized that some people come and go, regardless of their past. Emma, just nine years old, died in a fire. A life with so much potential, just taken away. But you know, that's life. We all die eventually, some sooner than others. The important thing to remember, is that if you truly love someone, no matter whether they are with you, six blocks away, or looking down on you from Heaven, they are always with you.
If I could, I would marry Jodi Picoult. I'm not kidding. Although I prefer Chris, but you know.
If you read all this, you are crazy, because I'm pretty sure you have been killed mentally by my annoying life story paragraphs. But you are so awesome, and in the future, I think things will be less confusing, hopefully. Because if they aren't then that's just a waste.
1 jun
The Archivist by Martha Cooley
"An insightful look at the psyche of an institutionalized woman, her husband and her family, interspersed with beautiful poetry, jazz and bossa nova.
Mathias, a Christian, gets his Jewish wife committed to a mental asylum soon after the end of WWII. Judith commits suicide while in the asylum, and leaves behind a journal. The book looks at how various characters deal with their grief, guilt and fears, and find a way to go on."
3 jun
Riot by Shashi Tharoor
"A broad look at the hows and whys of communal strife in the behemoth that is India, this book is as relevant today as when it was first published in 2001, a few after the Babri Masjid demolition. A fictional account of a Hindu-Muslim riot in a small town in India, this book is largely based on facts, containing stories within stories - of a bereaved Sikh grandfather who never loses courage, of a lonely educated IAS officer who fights with himself to retain his integrity, a Muslim woman who discovers the courage that comes from utter desperation, an American woman who comes to India to work for a social cause she believes in, a Hindu fundamentalist who acts on his convictions.
In today's India, with its aggressive Hindutva, its divisive politics and its legacy of horrors committed in the name of religion, Tharoor maintains an impartial and non-judgemental attitude in his writing. This is a splendid book, and the author is now on my to-read list."
4 jun
Strange Bedpersons by Jennifer Crusie (e-book)
Started out as a fun chic lit… and then rapidly degenerated into a mill & boons type romance.
13 jun
Devices and Desires by P D James
Really good, in fact much better than most of the other Adam Dalgliesh mysteries. Most of the characters come to life and catch hold of the reader's emotion and imagination.
15 jun
The Proposition by Judith Ivory (e-book)
"Ugh!
What at first glance promised to be a gender reversal of Shaw's Pygmalion, turns out to be an insipid magical happy ending Regency romance. A lady professor of phoenetics catches hold of a professional rat catcher and turns him into a cardboard ""gentleman"", then proceeds to fall in love with him. And the happy ending was clearly written more for the convenience of the writer than for the entertainment of the reader. Not a book I'd ever want to read again."
18 jun
The Alchemy Of Murder by Carol McCleary
Another good whodunnit. Old Paris comes alive in McCleary's writing. The intrepid lady investigative journalist gets a bit monotonous at times, but this is a good mystery novel nonetheless. And no, I didn't guess who the murderer was.
19 jun
Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World by Louis de Bernieres
Lovely! Adorable! Horridly short. Just 50 pages or so. But I fell in love with all the characters, and actually felt homesick for the neighbourhood.
23 jun
The Bodies Left Behind by Jeffery Deaver
Definitely not one of Deaver's best. True, there are twists in the tale. But the tale itself is very very monotonous most of the time. I mean, the leading characters spend almost the entire novel chasing each other in a forest, with guns. Way too long for a chase-catch-and-kill sequence, Deaver!
30 jun
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (librarywala.com)
My second Picoult novel. And I really loved this one. Could actually feel a lot of sympathy for all the characters. And since the novel is in the form of chapters in the voice of all the main characters, it never gets monotonous.
I always get a lot of books for Christmas (and then for my birthday in the summer). It is a safe bet for my gift givers and if I don't like a book someone in the family probably will!
This little lot will keep me busy for quite a while. 'Where the hell have you been?' is a book I bought for Nick after hearing about it on Breakfast TV on the BBC. Nick had read it within 24 hours of him unwrapping it, it was an 'easy read' apparently. So now it is in my pile.
- I was flying; I was locked in a chocolate factory; I was queen of a Carribbean Isle. I would wake with the smell of frangipani in my hair or clouds caught in the hem of my nightgown until I realized that I was somewhere different. And no matter how hard I tried, I might fall asleep again but I could not will myself back into the fabric of that dream I'd been having.
Ótimo filme! Ótimo! Ótimo!
A história emociona bastante. E a Abigail Breslin é uma das minhas favoritas! :)
the last ten pages messed me all up... God i was so pissed...
this is going to be a feature film this year!!!!
A family is rocked by a sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their daughter’s life.
"I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move."
"the Lord is my rock and my fortress"
-psalm 18:2
as IB exams approach, (quickly, I might add,) something that'd been comforting is reading the Bible in times of emotional distress. :)
however, there was something i read today that i liked, and doesn't correlate with the Bible, but i like it nonetheless.
in the beginning, there was nothing at all but the moon and sun. And the moon wanted to come out during the day, but there was something so much brighter that seemed to fill up all those hours. The moon grew hungry, thinner and thinner, until she was just a slice of herself, and her tips were as sharp as a knife. By accident, because that is the way most things happen, she poked a hole in the night and out spilled a million stars, like a fountain of tears.
Horrified, the moon tried to swallow them up. And sometimes this worked, because she got fatter and rounder. But mostly it didn't, because there were just so many. The stars kept coming, until they made the sky so bright that the sun got jealous. He invited the stars to his side of the world, where it was always bright. What he didn't tell them, though, was that in the daytime, they'd never be seen. So the stupid ones leaped from the sky the the ground, and they froze under the weight of their own foolishness.
The moon did her best. She carved each of these blocks of sorrow into a man or woman. She spent the rest of her time watching out so that her other stars wouldn't fall. She spent the rest of her time holding on to whatever scraps she had left."
--Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
such lovely imagery. :)
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My Sister's Keeper was banned for homosexuality, language, religious viewpoint, sexism, sex, violence, and being inappropriate for the age group.
Eh. Boring and lame again. But this was taken last Friday, and after I took it I literally passed out in my bed and slept for 12 hours. It was much needed - I barely slept all week.
This part of my bookshelf has all my American Girl books from childhood on it, haha. The more "mature" ones (meaning actual novels and such) start at My Sister's Keeper.
That book made my cry, by the way. And by cry I mean sob and sob and get the pages all wet. A book has never made me cry before - if you haven't read it, I don't care what age you are, go out and get it and read it.
Currently listening to: The End - My Chemical Romance