“Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars…Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
what nonsense is this?
How fun, Laura had a link on her blog to this cool site with a Catalog Card Generator where you can make your own library catalog cards. You’re probably wondering, what’s the point? Well, there is no point, it’s just one more thing to do rather than work on my third book or talk to my husband!
january snow
We haven’t had much snow yet here in Michigan this winter, but here’s a little reminder of the beauty of winter. The artist’s name is Cat and you can see her work on her cool blog, The Odd Neighbor.
anatomy of grief
An adaptation of Joan Didion’s touching memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking, will open on Broadway March 29th starring Vanessa Redgrave for a limited twenty-four-week run.
That I was only beginning the process of mourning did not occur to me. Until now, I had only been able to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention. ~Joan Didion
street art
what not to read
Library Thing is a fun website where you can catalog your books, get suggestions based on what you like, or get unsuggestions on what NOT to read based on your entry, you can also join or create book groups to share and discuss your favorite book genre with. It’s easy breezy to use and free unless you want to catalog more than 200 books (my mom has 1,000 books on her excel file!) but it only costs 25 bucks for a lifetime membership and the ability to enter as many books as you want. You can even access your book catalog by cell phone while you’re book shopping (well some people can, I can’t even retrieve my cell phone messages). So check it out, it’s a great place for individuals or bookclubs to track their books and find new authors to try out!
Cat Reading print by Helga Sermat
spirits
Isabel Allende has written many books, but The House of the Spirits is still my favorite. There is something for everyone in this book, politics, murder, mystery, and romance and even though it was written in 1986, the writing and subject matter are timeless.
writer’s words
“My confidence comes from the belief that all human beings resemble one another, that others carry wounds like mine and that they will therefore understand. All true literature rises from this childish, hopeful certainty that we resemble one another. When a writer shuts himself up in a room for years on end, with this gesture he suggests a single humanity, a world without a center.”
That is a quote from Orhan Pamuk’s Nobel Lecture, My Father’s Suitcase, that I read in The New Yorker last week. Check it out…
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