“How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.” Alexandra Fuller grew up in Africa, the daughter of a manic depressive alcoholic mother, and a father who scratched out a living on various farms while also serving in the army, fighting the rebellion in order to ensure white rule. She and her older sister Vanessa learned how to kill […]
“Gold is the corpse of value…”
This book is a marathon, not a sprint. I listened to the audio version, which was something like 48 hours long. It did take about eight or nine hours to really grab my attention, but once it did, I was hooked! “Unfortunately, this category of secret is itself so secret that it’s very existence is secret, and he can’t actually reveal it to anyone.” Cryptonomicon takes place in two different eras, with a collection of kind of related people occupying each. In the 1940s, we […]
“Of course I loved books more than people.”
A couple of you recommended this one, and I’m so glad you did! It was a great read — full of books, mysteries and secrets. “All children mythologize their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.” Reclusive author Vida Winter has tapped a young biographer named Margaret […]
“Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60’s. Or maybe I was just a girl… interrupted.”
I have seen the movie Girl, Interrupted once or twice, although it’s been a while. From my vague memories, however, it seems like they adapted the book pretty closely — with maybe some fleshing out/embellishments. The characters I remember, and even some of the lines, exist fully in this short book. Whether or not you’ve seen the movie, I definitely recommend reading this one. “Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into […]
Laura Moriarty < Liane Moriarty
I grabbed this one from the library’s free ebook site. I thought at first that it might be a Liane Moriarty book that I’d missed, but no — different author, and not nearly as good. While I’m Falling starts with a divorce — Veronica’s parents break up after not quite an infidelity, but some definite sketchy business on Veronica’s mother’s behalf. While Veronica struggles through her third year of college, her parents fight over money and the house and their own issues. Veronica’s boyfriend wants her to […]
“Your Mother is a hard act to follow. She will always be the love of your life”
Oh, this book is so sad. It has a happy ending, and a good message, and hopefully will spur some change within the foster system, but it still made me so, so sad. “I journeyed alone for almost ten years before I found home. Adoptions are like very delicate gardening with transplants and grafts. Mine took hold, rooted, and bloomed, even though there were inevitable adjustments to the new soil and climate. Yet I have not forgotten where my roots started.” Ashley Rhodes entered foster care […]
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