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Hmm will have to look for this..I enjoy these types of books
Hi Kate good to see you back here and I have both the locke books on my wait list at the library ... thanks so much you and dawn and ketchaba always give me good reccomendations on books .
I've started reading Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho.
I've read another of his books and it was excellent.
Here's the deal, though:
He writes so beautifully and I'm not sure how to express this but his writing makes me sad because it is so beautiful. That Japanese saying of "Cry for Happy" comes to mind. I have been so happy at times that I cry. That is the way Coelho's work affects me. He manages to lock onto me like radar. So, I am reading this with a rubber band around my wrist and if I feel like crying I will just snap it and it will bring me back to earth.
Oddly, that is sort of what the book is about. Everything is okay in Veronika's life. She wants to die because she dreads that all she has to look forward to is "okay" forever.
I'm not giving anything away. All this is in the preface of the book.
I've started reading Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho.
I've read another of his books and it was excellent.
Here's the deal, though:
He writes so beautifully and I'm not sure how to express this but his writing makes me sad because it is so beautiful. That Japanese saying of "Cry for Happy" comes to mind. I have been so happy at times that I cry. That is the way Coelho's work affects me. He manages to lock onto me like radar. So, I am reading this with a rubber band around my wrist and if I feel like crying I will just snap it and it will bring me back to earth.
Oddly, that is sort of what the book is about. Everything is okay in Veronika's life. She wants to die because she dreads that all she has to look forward to is "okay" forever.
I'm not giving anything away. All this is in the preface of the book.
This sounds great - thanks to Amazon's 1-click it is now next on my list after I finish "The Cutting Season"
I stayed up all night and finished Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho.
It's an unusual book and not everyone would enjoy it. It's a mix between Girl, Interrupted and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with a touch of Kahlil Gibran thrown in.
It's sad, funny, lusty in places and quite gentle but emotionally violent, too. Basically it is about how we individuals see ourselves and how filters are applied to our behavior beginning in early childhood and how these filters can often cause us to act out in later years when we realize the damage the filters have done. I have to add that I identified strongly with this story.
I stayed up all night and finished Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho.
It's an unusual book and not everyone would enjoy it. It's a mix between Girl, Interrupted and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with a touch of Kahlil Gibran thrown in.
It's sad, funny, lusty in places and quite gentle but emotionally violent, too. Basically it is about how we individuals see ourselves and how filters are applied to our behavior beginning in early childhood and how these filters can often cause us to act out in later years when we realize the damage the filters have done. I have to add that I identified strongly with this story.
I really liked this book.
This and your other post sold me! Like Pinetreelover, I 1-clicked and it's next after The Missing Shade of Blue. Usually I'm not so impulsive when it comes to spending my gift card balance but, I've never read him and figured now's the time . Oh, or should that be Thanks for the rec and comments, Ketabcha!
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This and your other post sold me! Like Pinetreelover, I 1-clicked and it's next after The Missing Shade of Blue. Usually I'm not so impulsive when it comes to spending my gift card balance but, I've never read him and figured now's the time . Oh, or should that be Thanks for the rec and comments, Ketabcha!
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I'm 10% in on The Missing Shade of Blue by Jennie Erdal. I. AM. LOVING. IT.
It just confirms what I already suspected: I love those "quiet" stories, where nothing much needs to happen, it's all about the characters and real life.
I'm 10% in on The Missing Shade of Blue by Jennie Erdal. I. AM. LOVING. IT.
It just confirms what I already suspected: I love those "quiet" stories, where nothing much needs to happen, it's all about the characters and real life.
I wonder if you'd like Diane Schoemperlen? She writes like I think. And Joan Barfoot writes quiet kind of books where it is about the characters. I am thinking of Abra.
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Thanks for the rec and comments, Ketabcha!