Welcome to week six! I hope you are all still safe and healthy. After last week's relatively depressing fare I wanted to treat you this week to some of the most moving books I've read since I started writing this blog. Some of them are funny, others full of hope, yet others are tragic. What …
I hope you all had wonderful Christmas, that you managed to find time to relax, breathe and think, but also to be, fully consciously be, with your family and with yourselves. I have a feeling I'm late to the party on this one, or at least cutting it very fine, but here's my list of …
Like most people who did not answer a particular calling from an early age, you placed work beside yourself; any occupation would fill up your day but not your heart. I liked that about you. ...the orgy of eternal adolescence characteristic of the childless in the middle age. Rather, it [the list of downsides of parenthood] might …
Continue reading We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver – Quotes
I saw the movie probably six years ago and it left me speechless. It does not happen very often, probably happened less than ten times in my entire life, but I was speechless, there was nothing more to say, nothing to add, it was shattering. No surprise then that I dreaded the book, it's been …
Continue reading We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
September is gone and all pretending that it is still summer has to end. As much as I love summer, part of me is ready for autumn, for the smell of fallen leaves, a bit shorter days, more excuses to stay in and read. What I am dreading is winter, with its completely dark days, …
Just a quick selection of sentences that caught my attention, on family and on our relationship with food. Enjoy and let me know what you think in comments! Do you think we know how to eat or is it something we lost and need to learn again? How much do we owe to other members …
We Need to Talk About Kevin has been on my TBR for two years now, but I'm dreading it a bit, either I'll hate the epistolary form, or it will be an amazing book and devastating because of that. Stuck in this conundrum I decided to start easy and got on to Big Brother. Pandora and …
May is gone, no idea how that happened, because my mind still firmly believes we're somewhere in March. It got warmer and it got sunnier and I appreciate it, but my brain is clearly in denial, maybe because I really do feel I should start exercising again and cannot use short days as an excuse …
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