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The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
slow-paced
4.0
"April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain."
Stunning imagery, great use of irony, and oh so powerful verse-craftmanship! Just stunning!
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain."
Stunning imagery, great use of irony, and oh so powerful verse-craftmanship! Just stunning!
The Only One Left by Riley Sager
4.0
This was good: fast paced, with a nice set of characters and a creepy house as its background.
Some of the twists were pretty obvious but others kept me guessing through the book
Some of the twists were pretty obvious but others kept me guessing through the book
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
emotional
lighthearted
slow-paced
I can't believe that I've never read a Sanderson book.
But I do know that I will read many more, for sure!
This was charming and magical and oh so beautifully written. I mean, just look at this:
“Memory is often our only connection to who we used to be. Memories are fossils, the bones left by dead versions of ourselves. More potently, our minds are a hungry audience, craving only the peaks and valleys of experience. The bland erodes, leaving behind the distinctive bits to be remembered again and again. Painful or passionate, surreal or sublime, we cherish those little rocks of peak experience, polishing them with the ever-smoothing touch of recycled proxy living. In so doing—like pagans praying to a sculpted mud figure—we make of our memories the gods which judge our current lives.”
I highlighted so many parts of this book, it's uncanny.
It is such a great story of love, found family, fulfillment and adventure.
6/5!!!!!
But I do know that I will read many more, for sure!
This was charming and magical and oh so beautifully written. I mean, just look at this:
“Memory is often our only connection to who we used to be. Memories are fossils, the bones left by dead versions of ourselves. More potently, our minds are a hungry audience, craving only the peaks and valleys of experience. The bland erodes, leaving behind the distinctive bits to be remembered again and again. Painful or passionate, surreal or sublime, we cherish those little rocks of peak experience, polishing them with the ever-smoothing touch of recycled proxy living. In so doing—like pagans praying to a sculpted mud figure—we make of our memories the gods which judge our current lives.”
I highlighted so many parts of this book, it's uncanny.
It is such a great story of love, found family, fulfillment and adventure.
6/5!!!!!
Caught Up by Liz Tomforde
emotional
lighthearted
fast-paced
3.0
Kai is ❤️
Yet the book as a whole is meh
Yet the book as a whole is meh