“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.” ― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Category: 4+ Stars
Three Reviews for the Price of One.
Summer school has ended, and so has my graduate assistantship. That means, after a week-long vacation to Colorado, I am currently unemployed and without classes for the next two weeks.Of course, I've already read THREE novels. (In 2 weeks. Success.)I must say, I had really forgotten what it was like to lose myself in a … Continue reading Three Reviews for the Price of One.
Book Review: Something Like Normal
“Maybe it’s time to find a new normal.” ― Trish Doller, Something like Normal
Book Review: Panic
“It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if you could predict or foresee everything that was going to happen, you’d lose the motivation to go through it all. The promise was always in the possibility.” ― Lauren Oliver, Panic
Book Review: Code Name Verity
“KISS ME, HARDY! Kiss me, QUICK!” ― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity
Scottish Romances and Kilts: Outlander Book Review
“But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it's as though knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.” ― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
Review: The Impossible Knife of Memory
“Having a friend made everything else suck less.” ― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
Book Review: Little Bee
“We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.” ― Chris Cleave, Little Bee
Book Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
"I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was." - Random Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Book Review: The Alchemist
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist