Category: Books
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Review: The Book of Goose
Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Think My Brilliant Friend en France OR if you haven’t read it…this is the story of girlhood, growing pains, and the importance of fictions in a cold, hard world. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 The world has no use for who we are and what we know. A story has to be…
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Review: Betty
Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Based on the true coming-of-age story, Betty Carpenter is born in 1954 rural Ohio to her white mother and Cherokee father; she navigates life on the social fringes of mixed heritage and poverty. https://www.tiffanymcdaniel.com/the-real-betty Notes/Thoughts📝 Questions “Quotes”🗣 Times will never be the same, so we give time another beautiful…
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Review: The Courage to be Disliked
Book Specs 📖 One sentence Synopsis🔖 A young man and philosopher engage in an intellectual conversation about the question of happiness and how we can obtain it using Alderian psychology. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 To feel lonely, we need other people. that is to say, it is only in social contexts that a person becomes an individual…
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Review: Minor Detail
Book Specs 📖 One sentence Synopsis🔖 Two part narrative based on the true story of the Nirim Affair, a 1949 gang rape and murder of a young Bedouin-Palestinian girl by the Israeli Defense Force , followed by a fictional account of a Palestinian woman who tries to investigate this incident. Notes/Thoughts📝 This will require a second…
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Review: Widow Cliquot
First book review on the blog! Woohoo~~🎊 This year’s goal is to review every book I read (excluding any graphic/audio books) for a deeper reading experience. The format will be refined as I continue this habit. Book Specs 📖 One sentence Synopsis🔖 Started from the bottom… or erm “affluent upper-middle-class-bourgeoisie-family”, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot (the “Widow Clicquot”) cleverly…
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2025 in Book Quotes
hey there👋 Thanks for stopping by~ This is the 5th consecutive year I’ve continued the tradition of reading (at least) a book a week! I stopped book counting this year to stay more aligned with the practice of enjoying books vs. quantifying them. I’ve continued Virtual Book Club (hovering around 100 members on a rolling…
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2024 in Book Quotes
Yo-ho! If you’re reading this, we made it to the end of the year! What an accomplishment it is to be alive 🥳 Just like last year, I’ve categorized all my 2024 reads into categories (includes at least one quote from each book). Hopefully you get enough of a teaser to pick up a book…
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2023 in Book Quotes
Oh hey there, I took at least one quote from every book I read this year and organized them into themes that made sense to me. Hope there’s at least one quote in here that inspires you to pick up a book:) Follow me on Goodreads here. Enjoy~
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The Choice
I finished reading a book by Dr. Edith Eva Eger yesterday. She is a Holocaust survivor, divorced and married the same man, had three kids, started going back to school at 32, and eventually obtained a doctorate in clinical psychology when she was 50-something. It’s one of those books that changes your worldview. When you…
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How Someone Makes You Feel Can Change You
I finished reading The Placebo is You by Dr. Joe Dispenza yesterday and it was another one of those books that jolts you out of your normal patterns of thinking and forces you to look at the world through a different lens. The premise of the book is how you can manifest your ideal future…