The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
I was disappointed by this novel. I had high hopes and while it was fairly entertaining overall I would not recommend it.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Page Sixty-Three
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?
- Mary Oliver "The Summer Day"
"It was the thing that had compelled them to fight for the trail against all the odds, and it was the thing that drove me and every other long-distance hiker onward on the most miserable days. It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B.
It had only to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles for no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always let like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way. . . . It was what I knew before I even really did, before I could have known how truly hard and glorious the PCT would be, how profoundly the trail would both shatter and shelter me" (207).
Highly recommended.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?
- Mary Oliver "The Summer Day"
"It was the thing that had compelled them to fight for the trail against all the odds, and it was the thing that drove me and every other long-distance hiker onward on the most miserable days. It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B.
It had only to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles for no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always let like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way. . . . It was what I knew before I even really did, before I could have known how truly hard and glorious the PCT would be, how profoundly the trail would both shatter and shelter me" (207).
Highly recommended.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Page Sixty-Two
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
A troubled girl finds work in a flower shop and thinks back to the events that lead to her present-day life. Victoria uses her gift for flowers and arrangements to battle her inner demons and help others. A good read.
A troubled girl finds work in a flower shop and thinks back to the events that lead to her present-day life. Victoria uses her gift for flowers and arrangements to battle her inner demons and help others. A good read.
Page Sixty-One
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Narrated by Enzo, a dog, this book is sad and heartwarming. A light read.
Narrated by Enzo, a dog, this book is sad and heartwarming. A light read.
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