“The visionary language of the doomed reaches heights of linguistic ardor with which language of the blessed and saved cannot compete.” ~ Toni Morrison, Paradise
Review: Paradise
Top Ten Tuesday: Cozy Reads
As it’s just getting to be winter here, this week’s Top Ten Tuesday couldn’t come at a more perfect time. Thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl for another great TTT!
Review: Impostors
“Freedom has a way of destroying things,” Scott Westerfeld
December TBR
November was a fairly hefty month of reading for both of us. Somehow, we both managed to get through our TBRs! This month, we’re making a last push to hit our yearly reading goals.
Review: Water for Elephants
“Why the hell shouldn’t I run away with the circus?” ~ Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
Team Review: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and and frightened and weak is amazing.” ~ Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Review: Gulliver’s Travels
“He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting “it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce.” - Jonathan Swift
Review: The Dispossessed
"There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities." ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Top Ten Tuesday: Books We’re Thankful People Made Us Read
For this week’s Top Ten Tuesday, we’re looking back at the books that were either assigned to us for school or that a friend or relative insisted we read. Thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl for another great Top Ten Tuesday!
Review: Every Day
“If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough,” David Levithan
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