“Why the hell shouldn’t I run away with the circus?” ~ Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
Review: 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: 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
Review: Beloved
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
~ Toni Morrison, Beloved
Review: Dumpin’
“I don’t know. I think you gotta be who you want to be until you feel like you are whoever it is you’re trying to become. Sometimes half of doing something is pretending that you can,” Julie Murphy
Review: A Closed and Common Orbit
“If you believe you have control, then you believe you’re at the top. And if you’re at the top, then people who aren’t like you… well, they’ve got to be somewhere lower, right? Every species does this. Does it again and again and again.” ~ Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit
Review: Shopgirl
“He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.” ~ Steve Martin, Shopgirl
Team Review: The Two Towers
“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
Review: Touch
“Visually and audibly, the world of today was designed to distract. Before you could give a name to your own feelings, there was something telling you what to think and want.” - Courtney Maum
October TBR
We had a lot of overlap in books this past September, and both of us bit off a bit more than we could chew. But all in all, it was still a great month of reading!
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