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I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
“This never knowing, it weakens us,” Bunu would say. “It’s a form of control. They know exactly what they’re doing.” – Ruta Sepetys, “I Must Betray You” Review: I Must Betray You is Ruta Sepetys’s newest historical fiction novel marketed for young adults. I absolutely love how Sepetys manages to take a little known (at […]
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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
“You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.” – Chris McCandless, in a letter to […]
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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 […]