Sometimes I Read

A visual way for me to keep track of the books I read because my memory is garbage

[teenagerunazayn-blog]

“If chocolate were a mandatory part of breakfast, people wouldn’t be so grouchy in the morning.”

— Joanne Fluke

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[isabooni]

Currently reading <3

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[books-without-words]

Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder, by Joanne Fluke.

This is one of my favorite mystery series :)

[the-smell-of-books-blog]

[read-this-now]

Matteo Alacran was not born; he was harvested with the DNA from El Patron, lord of a country called Opium. Can a boy who was bred to guarantee another’s survival find his own purpose in life? And can he ever be free?

Read in this order:

The House of the Scorpion

The Lord of Opium

[books365]

Wow hey so I’ve just been hoarding this blog since like 2013! It’s 2018 now, I’ve graduated college, and I actually have time to read again? Diving back into keeping track here... but without the commentary aspect from before (because let’s be honest, that shit’s embarrassing)

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My second observation was that the degraded setting we identify as American urban civilization was in fact merely another form of nature itself: amoral, unpredictable, buzzing, florid, frenzied, terrifying. A place where men die the same useless deaths as did the tortoises and finches noted by Charles Darwin. A gridded battle-ground where I stood to the side with my paper and pen, watching the cannon fire and the flash and roar, recording who fell, how they writhed, and when they died.

Colin Harrison, Manhattan Nocturne

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This book is obscenely amazing!!! Chalk full of intrigue and real characters with real flaws and questions and beautiful descriptions and asdfjkl; so good I can't do it justice! I'm afraid the movie (TBA 2015) won't be able to either, but my fingers are crossed.

[bookhangovers]

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A sequel that totally lives up to the original! I highly recommend both Something Borrowed and Something Blue.

[literarythought]

Maybe it was like that with life, too. Sometimes you just didn’t see the potential in an ugly day.

Beth Harbison; Shoe Addicts Anonymous (via unoriginal-thinking)

[books365]

Way better than I anticipated!

[a-thousand-words]

You don’t have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.

Jane Green, Bookends (via a-thousand-words)

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Follows the twists and turns of an adult friendship group in Britain. Hard to start but once you get into it it's pretty good. I really liked the quirky bunch of characters.

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Who do you love? It's a question anyone should be able to answer. A question that defines a life, creates a future, guides most minutes of one's days. Simple, elegant encompassing. Who do you love?

Lisa Gardner, Love You More