“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.” ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
“We All Complete”: Never Let Me Go Book Review
Category: 3+ Stars
Starting the Year with a Bang: What I Read January 2018
This year could not have gotten off to a better start! I read so many good, diverse books.... books that will stick with me for a long time. Fiction, nonfiction, YA, adult -- the gang's all here!
What I Read: December 2017
It's hard to find the time to review every book I read, and it's even harder to find the motivation when a book isn't spectacular or noteworthy or made me think or made me hate it. So, this mini-review roundup was born. (December 2017)
Book Review: The Good Daughter
“People were outraged. They were glued to their televisions, to their web pages, to their Facebook feeds. They vocally expressed sorrow, horror, fury, pain. They cried for change. They raised money. They demanded action. And then they went back to their lives until the next one happened again.” ― Karin Slaughter, The Good Daughter
What I Read: October 2017
I get a mild feeling of panic every time someone asks me to recommend books to them. I want to just direct them here, to the safe space where all of my thoughts and feelings are already laid out, where they can read my thoughts on the books before they pick them up.
Book Review: Turtles All the Way Down
“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.” ― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
Book Review: Ready Player One
“Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.” ― Earnest Cline, Ready Player One
Book Review: The Perfect Girl
“I believe that if you are lucky enough to have a child, then you should love them, whether or not society labels them as flawed, whether or not you label them as flawed.” ― Gilly Macmillan, The Perfect Girl
Book Review: Lost Lake
“She understood that the hardest times in life to go through were when you were transitioning from one version of yourself to another.” - Sarah Addison Allen, Lost Lake
Book Review: Let’s Get Lost
“It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.” ― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost