I like big books and I cannot lie
98% complete! Eivind (like the Terrible) has read 98 of 100 books.
In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But America, as the …
"Richard Mayhew is an ordinary young man with an ordinary life and a good heart. His world is changed forever …
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers …
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers …
"Richard Mayhew is an ordinary young man with an ordinary life and a good heart. …
“He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me."
Door stopped. The steps dead-ended in a rough brick wall. "Mm," she agreed. "He's a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur.”
— Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
"Richard Mayhew is an ordinary young man with an ordinary life and a good heart. His world is changed forever …
Flight Behavior is a brilliant and suspenseful novel set in present day Appalachia; a breathtaking …
So she was what Hester called a 911 Christian: in the event of an emergency, call the Lord. Unlike all those who called on Jesus daily, rain or shine, to discuss their day and feel the love. Once upon a time she’d had her mother for that. Jesus was a more reliable backer, evidently, less likely to drink himself unconscious or get liver cancer. No wonder people chose Him as their number-one friend. But if the chemistry wasn’t there, what could you do? Dellarobia scrutinized life too hard, she knew that. For a year she’d gone with Cub to Wednesday Bible group and loved the sense of being back in school, but her many questions did not make her the teacher’s pet. Right out of the gate, in Genesis, she identified two completely different versions of how it all got started. The verses could be a listen-and-feel kind of thing, like music, she’d suggested, not like the instruction booklet that comes with a darn appliance. A standpoint that won no favors with the permanent discussion leader, Blanchie Bise, cheerleader for taking the Word on faith. For crap’s sake, the first rule of believable was to get your story straight. Hester let Dellarobia stop coming to Wednesday Bible.
Flight Behavior is a brilliant and suspenseful novel set in present day Appalachia; a breathtaking …
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture. Or so it seemed for now, to a woman with flame-colored hair who marched uphill to meet her demise
— Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (Page 1)
This is the first sentence of the book.
Møt Alba. Singel språkviter med fast jobb på universitetet. Bereist og belest med livet på stell.
Eller?
Da …
Flight Behavior is a brilliant and suspenseful novel set in present day Appalachia; a breathtaking parable of catastrophe and denial …
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front …
Halfway through and it's so, SO bleak
@funkel Merka meg også det avsnittet da jeg leste boka.
Eivind (like the Terrible)
boosted
Over fjorden går han. Over fjorden utan å nøle. Over fjorden som så mange gongar …
For byfolk var fjorden ein illusjon, eit rekreasjonsområde, ein stad som knapt eksisterte før dei sette seg i bilen fredag ettermiddag, og som dei forlét igjen søndag kveld for å returnere til liv der dei resten av veka skrytte av roa og det enkle livet. Også Aud Haver skrytte, for ein fabelaktig natur dette var. Nils forklarte at dei ikkje sa natur her, dei sa skog og stein og fjell og elv og fjord, det var ting ein kunne peike på og vere nær og bry seg om, det var ikkje natur.
— Den dagen Nils Vik døde by Frode Grytten (Page 123)
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the …
