Tag Archives: My 2012 Book List
Before I Go To Sleep
“It’s so difficult, isn’t it? To see what’s going on when you’re in the absolute middle of something? It’s only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.” – Before I Go To Sleep, S.J. Watson
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.” – Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs
Wish List: Books
Yes, a book wish list, as if the 2012 Book List wasn’t enough. (Speaking of which, I am doing such a bad job with that list. I keep squeezing in books not on the list! And yet here I am, with another book list. Anyway.) No, this doesn’t double up as a Christmas wish list […]
The Virgin Suicides
“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she’d fly.” – The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides I don’t know why I put off reading The Virgin Suicides for so long when it’s managed to become a household name. To not have read it would be […]
The Beach
“There’s this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn’t exist… If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant to use as a comparison then nothing seems strange.” – The Beach, Alex Garland Yay! Here’s another book off of my 2012 Book List, Alex Garland’s The Beach. This is my second […]
Love, Stargirl
“Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she’s gone. I’m not me anymore.” – Love, Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli
Stargirl
“On the contrary, she is one of us. Most decidedly. She is us more than we are us. She is, I think, who we really are. Or were.” – Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli
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