Great book tours homes to see personal antique collections and how they are styled. Tons of color pictures.
This is the story of Allegra and Christian. It's not my absolute favorite, because they get together too easily at the beginning. Still, fun, like most of the Katie MacAllister books...
Not bad... such a memorable premise to be such a forgettable book. Best parts... the musician has his epiphany - it starts – “We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can’t have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we’re so desperate to pretend things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they’re not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want. Maybe not out loud, if it’s to going to get you in trouble: “I wish I’d never married him.” “I wish she was still alive.” “I wish I’d never had kids with her.” “I wish I had a whole shitload of money.” “I wish all the Albanians would go back to fucking Albania.” Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free. Either that or it’ll get you a punch in the nose. Surviving in whatever life you’re living means lying, and lying corrodes the soul, so take a break from the lies for just one minute.”
"I had wanted to kill myself, not because I hated living, but because I loved it. And the truth of the matter is, I think, that a lot of people feel the same way - I think that's how Maureen and Jess and Martin feel. They love life, but it's all fucked up for them, and that's why I met them, and that's why we're all still around. We were up on the roof because we couldn’t find a way back into life, and being shut out of it like that... It just fucking destroys you, man."
And show more Maureen's epiphany also has good moments - "Perhaps getting something you want is never a coincidence. If you want a cheese sandwich and you get a cheese sandwich, that can't be a coincidence, can it? And by the same token, if you want a job and you get a job, that can't be a coincidence either. These things can only be coincidental if you think you have no power over your life at all." So I had T on the brain when I read this book and I thought of him...
Final quote worth anything - and I've really felt it about this whole affair, which, of course, is the lens through which I read this book... "It's a currency like any other, self-worth. You spend years saving up, and you can blow it all in an evening if you so choose. I'd done forty-odd years' worth in the space of a few months, and now I had to save up again."
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"I had wanted to kill myself, not because I hated living, but because I loved it. And the truth of the matter is, I think, that a lot of people feel the same way - I think that's how Maureen and Jess and Martin feel. They love life, but it's all fucked up for them, and that's why I met them, and that's why we're all still around. We were up on the roof because we couldn’t find a way back into life, and being shut out of it like that... It just fucking destroys you, man."
And show more Maureen's epiphany also has good moments - "Perhaps getting something you want is never a coincidence. If you want a cheese sandwich and you get a cheese sandwich, that can't be a coincidence, can it? And by the same token, if you want a job and you get a job, that can't be a coincidence either. These things can only be coincidental if you think you have no power over your life at all." So I had T on the brain when I read this book and I thought of him...
Final quote worth anything - and I've really felt it about this whole affair, which, of course, is the lens through which I read this book... "It's a currency like any other, self-worth. You spend years saving up, and you can blow it all in an evening if you so choose. I'd done forty-odd years' worth in the space of a few months, and now I had to save up again."
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*spoilers*
Sue Grafton recommends on the cover... so I thought I'd give it a whirl... adequate, not special as a mystery... I am incredibly tired of the protagonist who's clueless... as if there weren't other ways to clue in the reader... protagonist claims to be a second-wave feminist... written in 1990, so I guess that's where feminism was, but strange and cardboard with Our Bodies, Ourselves and unshaved legs... how feminist is it for the protagonist to feel for a young, fairly stupid girl who was raped by her doctor, that now she was about to start the hard road of motherhood... um, maybe there are other options for her? ...and why is the abortion doctor a rapist/killer/child molester?
Sue Grafton recommends on the cover... so I thought I'd give it a whirl... adequate, not special as a mystery... I am incredibly tired of the protagonist who's clueless... as if there weren't other ways to clue in the reader... protagonist claims to be a second-wave feminist... written in 1990, so I guess that's where feminism was, but strange and cardboard with Our Bodies, Ourselves and unshaved legs... how feminist is it for the protagonist to feel for a young, fairly stupid girl who was raped by her doctor, that now she was about to start the hard road of motherhood... um, maybe there are other options for her? ...and why is the abortion doctor a rapist/killer/child molester?