oh i love the war that saved my life / the war i finally won! heartbreakingly beautiful. there’s something so simple and comforting about well-written children’s literature, i think <3
Heartbreaking is right 😭😭 throughout both books, i was like THIS IS SO SAD. Thankfully it was also so hopeful. Lemme know of any other children's lit you've enjoyed recently!
😭😭 i think the author did a really good job of depicting ada’s healing process realistically though! it felt very real and maybe that’s why it was so sad. ooh you might enjoy « a place to hang the moon »? i’ve yet to read it but my sisters loved it!
I’ve also been reading Mary Oliver’s works lately and proverbs lately. Having read the black water poem several times she makes life appear so gentle and lowly. Just like Jesus :)
I’ve been reading ‘Devotions’ a collection of many of her works. When I have the book in front of me I’ll try to come back and share some of my favorites !
I remember hearing about The Last Cuentista a while ago, but never had a chance to pick it up. I'll have to make sure to add it to my to-reads list (now that I have a more formal to-reads list)
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by S.A. Chakraborty (I enjoyed her Daevabad trilogy, and was excited about the idea of a middle aged mom getting called back to adventuring)
The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu (I've listened to a few podcasts where he's talked about his worldbuilding and the cycle of how humanity shapes technology, which shapes humanity, and so on - not even usually in bad ways - and am curious to see how that plays out in his epic fantasy series). I also want to check out his short stories, for similar reasons, but without the thousands of pages.
Also some others, but those are the two big ones at the moment (quite literally. I do seem to be attracted to books that can double as a weapon in an emergency)
oh i love the war that saved my life / the war i finally won! heartbreakingly beautiful. there’s something so simple and comforting about well-written children’s literature, i think <3
Heartbreaking is right 😭😭 throughout both books, i was like THIS IS SO SAD. Thankfully it was also so hopeful. Lemme know of any other children's lit you've enjoyed recently!
😭😭 i think the author did a really good job of depicting ada’s healing process realistically though! it felt very real and maybe that’s why it was so sad. ooh you might enjoy « a place to hang the moon »? i’ve yet to read it but my sisters loved it!
I’ve also been reading Mary Oliver’s works lately and proverbs lately. Having read the black water poem several times she makes life appear so gentle and lowly. Just like Jesus :)
agreed! any other Mary Oliver you'd recommend? :-D
I’ve been reading ‘Devotions’ a collection of many of her works. When I have the book in front of me I’ll try to come back and share some of my favorites !
I remember hearing about The Last Cuentista a while ago, but never had a chance to pick it up. I'll have to make sure to add it to my to-reads list (now that I have a more formal to-reads list)
oooh what else is on your to-reads list?
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by S.A. Chakraborty (I enjoyed her Daevabad trilogy, and was excited about the idea of a middle aged mom getting called back to adventuring)
The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu (I've listened to a few podcasts where he's talked about his worldbuilding and the cycle of how humanity shapes technology, which shapes humanity, and so on - not even usually in bad ways - and am curious to see how that plays out in his epic fantasy series). I also want to check out his short stories, for similar reasons, but without the thousands of pages.
Also some others, but those are the two big ones at the moment (quite literally. I do seem to be attracted to books that can double as a weapon in an emergency)
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