I am so loving getting in to books, and recently have read some ones that I wouldn’t normally go for, so have decided to see if I can get to 52 this year…. I won’t be rating them, it is up for you to decide if you will try one or not, I may just share a quote if one particularly jumps out… Will update this blog as I go….
Auala
18 Little fires everywhere by Celeste Ng – “It confirmed something Elizabeth had long suspected: all these years, Elena had been building up credit. Perhaps she’d honestly wanted to help, perhaps she’d been motivated by kindness. But even so, she’d been keeping a runing tally of everything she’d ever done for Elizabeth, too, every bit of support she’d given, and now she expected to be repaid. Elena thought she was owed this, Elizabeth realised suddenly; she thought it was a question of fairness, about getting what she deserved under the rules.”
17 – Man’s search for Meaning by Victor Frankl – “In other words, as soon as they could fill their abundant free time with some sort of unpaid but meaningful activity-their depression disappeared although their economic situation had not changed and their hunger was the same.”
16 – All who live on islands by Rose Lu – “I looked at your reflection. Your shoulders were borad, much broader that I thought they were. Your expression was neutral, unafraid of the space that your frame occupied. And in your chest centre was your heart, open and ready.
15 – Where the crawdads sing by Delia Owens – “There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”
14 – For one more day by Mitch Albom – “Do you ever think while something is happening, about what’s happening someplace else? My mother, after the divorce, would stand on the back porch at sunset, smoking a cigarette, and she’d say, “Charley, right now, as the sun is going down here, it’s coming up someplace else in the world.”
13 – Mercy by Jodi Picoult – “I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought – that someone would affect you so deeply they’d always be a part of you….. This girl on the bus, she said that she couldn’t stop dreaming about this man. She said she wouldn’t be the person she was now if she hadn’t met him. Under the skin she said. And I started thinking.”
12 – Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom – “Don’t assume that it is too late to get involved.”
11 – The Rabbit Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington | Nugi Garimara – “For the three runaways, the fence was a symbol of love, home and security. “We’re nearly home,” said Molly.”
10 – My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult – “Pandora’s curiosity got the best of her and one day she opened the box. Out came plagues and misery and mischief. She managed to shut the lid tight before hope escaped. It’s the only weapon we have left to fight the others.”
9 – The Red Hat Club by Haywood Smith – “Any one of us, at any time, can ask for a fresh start and get it: change of subject, change of attitude-no matter how bad we might have scred things up.”
8 – On top of Everything by Sarah-Kate Lynch – “It was all on the list. You can laugh at lists – and the people who make them – but let me tell you this: some days, when everything else feels totally beyond your control, a few ticks on a piece of paper is about as good as it gets.”
7 – Building Online Communities by Tom Tenney – What it says on the tin!
6 – The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford – Think Downton Abbey. “The Radletts were always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair; their emotions were on no ordinary place, they loved or they loathed, they laughed or they cried, they lived in a world of superlatives.”
5 – Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley – The psychology within relationships. “You could not have everything: the whole wisdom of life amounted to that. Whatever you had was instead of something else.”
4 – Before the Coffee gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi – “water flows from high places to low places. That is the nature of gravity. Emotions also seem to act according to gravity. When in the presence of someone with whom you have a bond, and to whom you have entrusted your feelings, it is hard to lie and get away with it. The truth just wants to come flowing out. This is especially the case when you are trying to hide your sadness or vulnerability. It is much easier to conceal sadness from a stranger, or from someone you don’t trust.
3 – The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim – A really different style of writing to what I am used to…. “while this was the simple happiness of complete harmony with her surroundings, the happiness that asks for nothing, that just accepts, just breathes, just is….”
2 – Nine Lives by Danielle Steel – Bravery or stupidity? “Maggie kept telling herself to be brave the way her father had told her to be. And she was, braver than she ever thought she could be
1 – The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri – A fictional account of the journey of a refugee couple. “But in Syria there is a saying: inside the person you know, there is a person you do not know.”
