Women by Charles Bukowski My rating: 3/5 stars “Pain is strong. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire… Pain arrives. BANG, and there it is , it sits on you. It’s real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you’ve suddenly become an idiot. There’s no cure for it unless you… Continue reading September Wrap-Up 2019
Titans Vol. 3: A Judas Among Us by Dan Abnett My rating: 3/5 stars This volume was..okay Volume 2. left off with HIVE stealing Karen (Bumblebee’s) memories. In this volume, the Titans’ efforts to bring down HIVE to retrieve those memories, results in a discovery that something much bigger and dangerous than HIVE is coming.… Continue reading January Wrap-Up 2019
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion My rating: 3.5/5 stars “It is the blight man was born for. We are not idealized wild things. We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses… Continue reading July Wrap-Up 2018
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin My rating: 4.5/5 stars “Life isn’t about defying death. It’s also about defying yourself, about insisting on transformation. As long as you can transform, my friends, you cannot die.” This is a book about death but it’s also a book about life. Simon, Klara, Daniel & Varya are siblings. As… Continue reading April Wrap-Up 2018
February was a slow reading month for me but I thoroughly enjoyed everything that I read 🙂 The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas My rating: 4.5/5 stars “Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.” What a book. Honestly, I don’t know… Continue reading February Wrap-Up 2018
New Year New Books! Love, Freedom and Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships by Osho My rating: 3/5 stars “It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory. When you are enjoying others, enjoy and enjoy to the full; there is… Continue reading January Wrap-Up 2018
The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy My rating: 4/5 stars The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy is definitely one of the most interesting memoirs I’ve read thus far. It is also quite a contrast from the sort of memoirs I am accustomed to reading. See, typically, I read memoirs of people… Continue reading September Wrap-Up!
The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig My rating: 2.5/5 stars The Girl from Everywhere follows the story of Nix who sails across centuries with her Dad, crew mates and friends. The ultimate destination of all their sailing adventures is to find a legitimate map that would take her Dad back to 1868 Honolulu where… Continue reading March Wrap-up!
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