Isla McKetta
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A lesson in when withholding does not work for a novel, distancing the reader from what should be a deeply moving story. I liked her other books much better. | |
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How can you not love a book that starts with a note about how much culture changes even as the author herself is growing and changing? Grace is one of the voices I miss most from my Twitter days, and I loved traveling with her as she explored her exp ...more | |
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“And, thinking of this judgment I would no longer be able to change, I suddenly felt a kind of relief, as if peace could come to me only after the moment when there would be nothing to add and nothing to remove in that arbitrary ledger of misunderstandings, and the galaxies which were gradually reduced to the last tail of the last luminous ray, winding from the sphere of darkness, seemed to bring with them the only possible truth about myself, and I couldn’t wait until all of them, one after the other, had followed this path.”
― Cosmicomics
― Cosmicomics
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“To fall in the void as I fell: none of you knows what that means… I went down into the void, to the most absolute bottom conceivable, and once there I saw that the extreme limit must have been much, much farther below, very remote, and I went on falling, to reach it.”
― Cosmicomics
― Cosmicomics
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“If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley: Guitar Chord Songbook
― Bob Marley: Guitar Chord Songbook
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Thanks, Icess! So excited!!!
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You're a doll, Helen! I am a very fast reader (sometimes, on a great day, I can read three shortish books), but I never remember ANYTHING. I envy slow readers who absorb and enjoy. My process is more of a driving obsession. Some books, like those on my physical to read shelf, will eventually be dispensed with. Others will serve as reminders of things I meant to think about. And the rest will haunt me until I read them and check them off the list.