Jojo writes in the introduction to this one that she never really intended to write a sequel to Me Before You, but the fans demanded one so here it is. I’m not sure that Me Before You really needed a sequel, but I’m glad she provided one — even if it’s not quite as good as the first (when are they ever, really?). “You know what makes me feel down? The way you keep promising to live some kind of a life, then sacrifice yourself to every […]
The Giant in the cargo bay
And so I’ve reached the (current) end of Orson Scott Card’s Shadow Series. Allegedly, he has another novel called Shadows Alive in the works — but no idea when that will be released. I enjoyed Shadows in Flight, but it definitely feels more like set up for the next book than a novel in its own right. “What I want,” he said softly, “is to stand in this meadow and walk in the light of the sun.” After the events of Shadow of the Hegemon, Bean and his three […]
“Push yourself. Don’t settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.”
Like my sister warned me — get your tissues ready for this one. “All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine. You make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.” Louisa Clark has been sort of muddling through life — she’s dated the same guy for 7 years without it really […]
“…an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit.”
“In 1938… the year’s #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 wasn’t even a person. It was an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit.” I really liked Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken — not just the story (probably one of the most depressing things I’ve read all year) but the way she told it. I liked it enough to bump up another of her biographies on my TBR shelf: Seabiscuit: An American […]
“A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.”
“The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high… but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.” And so I’ve finished my second visit with the Dark Tower series. I read the whole series for the first time in 2006, I think. The seventh book had just been released and my best friend insisted […]
“I AM GOING TO BE FURIOUSLY HAPPY, OUT OF SHEER SPITE.”
Ah, Jenny Lawson. You magnificent unicorn. I loved Let’s Pretend This Never Happened when it came out (and I recently revisited it on audiobook, which made it even funnier) and while Furiously Happy touches more on Lawson’s depression and anxiety, she still manages to infuse it with that special Bloggess touch. “It’s about taking those moments when things are fine and making them amazing, because those moments are what make us who we are, and they’re the same moments we take into battle with us” Lawson […]
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