Category: Books
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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…
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2022 in Book Quotes
As the year comes to a close, I picked one favourite quote from each of the 52 books read and organized them by theme. Be my friend on Goodreads so we can peep each other’s reads throughout the year:) A small tweak on this for next year – I will start a working document to…
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2021 in Book Quotes
Here are the lessons I learned from all the books I read in 2021! On Ignorance: The truth is we don’t know what we don’t know. We don’t even know the questions we need to ask in order to find out, but when we learn one tiny little thing, a dim light comes on in…
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Us Against You – Fredrik Backman
Rating: Backman does it again! He skillfully develops and divides his eccentric characters between two rival towns. Their shared similarity is their passion for hockey. As the story progresses you build sympathy for each misfit. The overall theme of the book is everything is not as simple as it seems while at the same time,…
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Evicted – Matthew Desmond
Rating: 4.8/5 Evicted is a story about the dire state of the housing crisis in America. Through eight family narratives, Desmond retells the dignified stories of struggling tenants in Wisconsin. The ethnographic research uncovers deep topics like structural inequality, racial segregation, and the sexist nature of eviction – all topics that make you think deeper about…
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information – Edward Tufte
Rating: 4.6/5 Graphical representation of data is the closes thing to art I have at my day job so this topic always interests me! In the age of information overload, we need to be meticulous in the data we present and understand what it means. Tufte’s book is a clean read about the organization and design…