“The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.”
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“The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.”
pickSo glad I finally made time to read this one! It was very good ❤️📖
pickI absolutely loved, loved, LOVED this book! This is such a well-written and enjoyable series. All the books have been wonderful reads, but this one in particular was nearly impossible to put down. I read for hours and hours and would have been happy with the ending if this were the end of the series, but there‘s another book coming out in May! I will definitely be picking it up.
“When you erupt, girl, make sure it is felt across worlds.”
❤️ this quote from Amren to Nesta.
My faithful reading buddy ❤️ #catsoflitsy
pickThis is the most bizarre book I‘ve read in a long time. It has left me breathless, and anxious to read everything Jeff VanderMeer has ever written.
I picked it up on a Barnes & Noble run with my sister. I was captivated by the beautiful cover, and when I opened it and found that a three-story tall bear was a central antagonist, what can I say? Take my money, Barnes & Noble!
Such a captivating story. I recommend it to my fellow weirdos.
“Once upon a time there was a woman who found a creature on the flank of a giant bear.”
“There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.”
pickI am enjoying this series so much! I love the characters and they worlds Sarah J. Maas has built for them. I can‘t wait to start the next book.
“Because when I am waiting in line, at the gym, on the train, eating lunch, I am not complaining about the wait/staring into space/admiring myself in reflective surfaces? I am reading!”
pickThis one has been languishing on my tbr stack for a long time. I finally read it and just loved it! Reading about Kaala and the Swift River pack was so interesting. I will definitely be picking up the other books in the series.
pickLoved this book so, so much! The author does a spectacular job of creating a beautiful, deadly world. I can‘t wait to start the next book in the series.
"The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us."
"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories."
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."
"Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."
"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book."
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
"You‘ve got to stay in the game. Your luck‘s bound to change. Be a shame to miss it."
"From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was. To the casual observer it looked very much like arrogance. Sometimes it was."
"Anna remembered her fifth grade teacher, Mr. White, telling her that hatred wasn't the worst of emotions. If one hated, one still cared. Indifference was the most inhuman."
"Now everything is sold on the Internet and anybody at all who doesn't know a thing can give their opinion."
From the back of the book: Fed up with early bedtimes and over-cooked veggies, a group of feisty seniors set out to regain their independence, improve their lot, and stand up for seniors everywhere. Their solution? White-collar crime.
Who among us can resist a description like that? #currentlyreading
"Ragnarok is coming. When the sky splits asunder and the dark powers of Muspell march out on their war journey, Frey will wish he still had his sword."
"Because,” said Thor, “when something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki‘s fault. It saves a lot of time."
My amazing family gave me my favorite book autographed by the late great Richard Adams for my birthday!
Got this one from the library today! I'm going to read it as soon as I finish "History of Wolves." This looks so funny!
"His gaze was lionesque and he was standing perfectly still. I felt a bit like a gazelle."
"It's only when the dreams lead you from your bed - from sleep - that the amusements become dangerous."
"This is a very ancient place, a bewitchment place, they say."
pickI fell in love with the characters in this book. The story is so well written and engrossing. It was difficult to put down. I highly recommend it!
so-soEh. I read this book in one day. Not because it was so amazing that I couldn't put it down, but more because I kept waiting for something to happen. The build up is painfully slow, and while some of the writing was mesmerizing, I just can't say that it was a truly enjoyable read. Great promise, but disappointing delivery.
"Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of love. How badly they need it, and how little most of them will ever get. The treacled pop songs, the dresses described in the catalogs with words like "sunset" and "Paris." Then the dreams are taken away with such violent force; the hand wrenching the buttons of the jeans, nobody looking at the man shouting at his girlfriend on the bus."
Jasper is very subtly trying to push my book off my lap so that he can take his rightful place! #catsoflitsy
pickSuch a strange and beautiful book! I don't have the words to do it justice in a review, but I really enjoyed it.
This book is bizarre... but in a good way 😉
