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White Oleander by Janet Fitch
"I liked it when my mother tried to teach me things, when she paid attention. So often when I was with her, she was unreachable. Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun".
White Oleander is my number one favorite book, hands ( Read more... ) -
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
"Did she perform at least eight or nine cycles as my mother said, or four or five as Asa recalled? That is the sort of detail that was disputable. But at some point within minutes of what my mother believed had been a stroke, after my mother concluded the cardiopulmonary resuscitation had failed to generate a pulse or a breath, she screamed for Asa ( Read more... ) -
The Thursday meme
Booking Through Thursday- How many books would you say you read in an average month? Depends on the length, but on average it's about one every week (so four).
- In a year? Well, if it's one a week then it's 52.
- Over the last five years? I have no idea. I have an awful memory, plus there are the books I had to read for school and the re-reads.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
”When I was done reading the poem, everyone was quiet. A very sad quiet. But the amazing thing was that it wasn’t a bad sad at all. It was just something that made everyone look around at each other and know that they were there. Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. Trhey just knew ( Read more... ) -
Rose Madder by Stephen King
”Her name don't matter. Her state of mind does. She a mighty important lady these days, along with all her other woes.”
I really do regret reading this book. For the past couple of years I had always meant to read it, because it seemed like I would really enjoy it, so finally I sat down and read it ( Read more... ) -
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
”Her happy remembrance of that long-ago day strengthened her voice, animated her gestures. The past, the old pictures, the sudden brilliance of the morning sun through the front windows: the mix made her joyful and took away, I think, a little of her pain.”
While reading Fight Club, I read other books because I knew it would take me awhile to get ( Read more... ) -
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
"What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. Only now the fingers were Nosferatu-long and the thumb was too short, but he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. The giant shadow hand was perfect for one minute, for one perfect minute Tyler sat in the palm of perfection he'd created himself ( Read more... ) -
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
"I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know noting more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, he say, the more I love."
I have 120 pages left, and so I decided I would ( Read more... )