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Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “Love in the Time of Cholera” Review: Giving this […]
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January Reading Wrap Up!
My Monthly Calendar of Reads: January Reading Stats: Books Completed: 21 Books Completed! (That may be a personal record) Pages Read: 6,955 pages total! Five Star Reads (Check the links for reviews!): If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich Ground Zero by Alan Gratz Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman […]
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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. ” – Joan Didion, “The […]
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Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
“I did not know that there are miles between running out of things to say, and running out of the strength to say them.” – Ashley C. Ford, “Somebody’s Daughter” Review: I wanted to love this book. When I read the synopsis of Somebody’s Daughter on Book of the Month Club, I was immediately drawn […]
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In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
“You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn’t. It’s the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn’t require a future.” – Rebecca Serle, “In Five Years” Review: In Five Years by […]