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Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
”I mean, in a world without God, aren’t mothers the new god? The last sacred unassailable position. Isn’t motherhood the last perfect magical miracle? But a miracle that’s impossible for men ( Read more... ) -
Paint it Black by Janet Fitch
"On the modeling stand, flame-haired Callie moved through her gesture poses. She caught Josie's eye over the art students' self-barbered coiffures, not moving her head, but her eyes speaking sympathy. Josie didn't want anybody's pity. Why wouldn't they just let her get on with it, become an inert shape in space? She liked Callie, though, the way ( Read more... ) -
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
"She walked from room to room, still drunk but charged with purpose, framing windows, light fixtures, the swirling grain of the floor. It seemed vitally important that she record every detail. At one point, in the living room, a spent and blistered bulb slipped from her hand and shattered; when she stepped back, glass pierced her heel. She studied ( Read more... ) -
1001 books i apparently need to read
Of course, this was stolen from Michelle (poetadoctusAs I was going through the list, I realized how few of the books I have actually read. It's not because I don't read, because I do whenever I have a spare minute. Honestly, I don't know why it is. All I know is that it was really boring going through the list and having spaces of nearly 100 books that I ( Read more... ) -
Lucky by Alice Sebold
”He did not comprehend what I had been through, or how it could have happened without some complicity on my part. His ignorance hurt. It still hurts, but I don't blame him. My father may not have fully understood, but what was most important to me was that I left the room knowing how much it had meant to him that I took him upstairs and tried, as ( Read more... ) -
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
"She couldn’t stop the memories slamming into her. Every one had a brutal report. Buckley riding piggyback on my shoulders down the stairs. Our mother steadying me as Lindsey looked on, jealous that I could reach, with the silver star in my hands, the top of the Christmas tree. Me sliding down the banister and asking her to join. Both of us begging ( Read more... ) -
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
"Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time."
Loosing her mother ten years prior to when the story takes place, 14-year-old Lilly is left feeling completely empty and alone. She fantasizes about the type of relationship her and her mother could have had ( Read more... ) -
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
”And yet the ride home was a somber journey, as if something had gone badly awry. But what? As far as Todd could determine, the only shadow on the whole experience had been cast by his cryptic half-remembered dream about the flashlights. Rather than offering some specific commentary about his romantic and professional dilemmas, the dream seemed to ( Read more... ) -
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
”Cecilia, the youngest, only thirteen, had gone first, slitting her wrists like a Stoic while taking a bath, and when they found her, afloat in her pink pool, with the yellow eyes of someone possessed and her small body giving off the odor of a mature woman, the paramedics had been so frightened of her tranquility that they had stood mesmerized.”
I ( Read more... )
