Mischief & Miscellany Quote Blog

Quotes from books I'm reading. Review blog here.

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Mini reviews of everything I read in May: https://debbiekinsey.wordpress.com/2016/06/07/may-reads-2016

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A cosy, enjoyable sci-fi that’s not quite up to the hype, but perfect when you’re feeling a bit under the weather. Full review here: https://debbiekinsey.wordpress.com/2016/05/29/the-long-way-to-a-small-angry-planet-by-becky-chambers

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WIN this shiny unread copy of a brilliant book! Open worldwide, just leave a comment by 25th May on my review over here: https://debbiekinsey.wordpress.com/2016/05/15/a-brief-history-of-seven-killings-by-marlon-james-review-win-a-copy

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Well, at some point you gotta expand on a story. You can't just give it focus, you gotta give it scope. Shit doesn't just happen in a void, there're ripples and consequences and even with all that there's still a whole fucking world going on, whether you're doing something or not. Or else it's just a repot of some shit that happened somewhere and you can get that from the nightly news.

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

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I hate nostalgia, nostalgia is not memory and my memory is too damn good for it.

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

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And if people say jump and you manage to jump high, do they stop telling you to jump, or disrespect you forever because you didn't act like a man and say, Fuck you, bad man don't jump for nobody. The problem with proving something is that instead of leaving you alone people never stop giving you new things to prove, harder things. Bullshit things until it become a TV comedy. Or just a joke.

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

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This is the first mistake God make. Time. God was a fool to create time. It's the one thing that even he run out of. But me beyond time. Me in the now, which is now which is also then. Then is also soon and soon might as well be if.

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

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My April reading wrap-up with mini reviews: https://debbiekinsey.wordpress.com/2016/04/30/april-reads-2016

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I hate politics. I hate that just because I live here I'm supposed to live politics. And there's nothing you can do. If you don't live politics, politics will live you.

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

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But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness.

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

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On (not) being a reading snob

It’s okay not to read books. It’s okay not to identify as a ‘reader’. This might seem like an incongruous thing to be talking about on World Book Night – the day when …

Slightly incongruous blogpost for World Book Night - why it’s okay not to read regularly, or even at all.

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PETER: There are no simple childhood memories, Mrs Hargreaves. I told you, it's complicated. Everything's occluded.

Peter and Alice by John Logan

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PETER: Grown men do not "return home and go on with their lives". That's what children do. Children pass gaily through life with no sense of the weight of events...Grown ups look in the mirror, and then look at the clock...They walk into an empty house that feels emptier every day that passes, for it brings them ever closer to the final and inescapable loneliness: that last echoing room where you are truly alone.

Peter and Alice by John Logan

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Yes, he was back, but not to reinhabit that imperfect silhouette in a seamless return to his past. He was back, and he was a newcomer.

The Weaver Fish by Robert Edeson

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A review of The Weaver Fish by Robert Edeson. Part fictional non-fiction, part crime thriller.

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New blogpost: mini reviews of everything I read in March: https://debbiekinsey.wordpress.com/2016/04/03/march-reads-2016 (Spoiler alert: I recommend everything)

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A review of Shaun Tan's stunning The Red Tree