Writer. alterna-chick. introspective GenXer. feminist. dilettante. vegan. indie film and music fan. avid reader. Prefer cultural activities to sporting events. Indoors to outdoors. City to suburbs.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
now reading
reading now and loving it. Perfection.
“I hope I was conditional. Everything intelligent is conditional.”
—The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
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Maybe that was why she was alone in her old age: all the men she had felt closest to loving were absorbed by something else. She doubted that the men themselves knew this—either that she’d loved them, or the lack of threat her love posed to their greater concerns.
What They Do in the Dark by Amanda Coe
“There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection to your former life is like a dream or delirium, and that person you were once is merely a fond acquaintance, or a beloved character from a storybook. This is how memory becomes nostalgia.”
Something bad has been looking for him for a long time, he thinks, and now, at last, it is growing near.
“The Bees” by Dan Chaon
