“Love like this wasn't what he'd planned or wanted or expected, surely it was indeed a trap, for even when you tried to run away, it followed you through the grass and lay down beside you, it overtook common sense and willpower.” ― Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things
Category: Adult Fiction
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
Book Review: Attachments
“There are moments when you can't believe something wonderful is happening. And there are moments when your entire consciousness is filled with knowing absolutely that something wonderful is happening.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
Book Review: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
“Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf.” ― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
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: The Alchemist
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Book Review: Sharp Objects
“See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.” ― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Two Thought-Provoking Books I Loved
I didn't have much time to read this summer, with school and working full time. But I did manage to pick up two books that really blew me away: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Orphan Master's Son.