"He tried to convince himself that love is about giving, not taking. It should be okay to simply be a giver. To love without expecting anything in return. But he finds that difficult. He wants her. He wants her for himself. 'I think I love her,' he says to Tintin. 'How the hell did that happen?'"
I've discovered that I'm on a Scandinavian Kick, and Asa Larsson is a great writer. The library has requested her other books for me on inter-library loan.
I started this blog before facebook as a way to comment on friends' blogs and over the years I've used it for different purposes. To share my reading list, to muse, but now, after 8 years as a single mom to most incredible boy, I've remarried and I thought I'd share our story of becoming the "Waki Family."
10.24.2013
"Blackwater" Kerstin Ekman
"He decided to ask some people to dinner because he realized he was drifting into something he would have jokingly diagnosed as paranoia in anyone else."
"He himself could not have borne to see Annie. But he had to. And, he thought to himself afterward, 'bear' is an empty word. Just a kind of exclamation. You bear it. You put two fingers on what has happened and feel it."
"It's true I walk in the forest every day and I am the only woman here who goes walking outside the berry-picking season. And who dares to walk alone. But that does not make me feel at home in the forest. I think the timber company's men or the Brandberg men on their road-making machines feel much more at home. I walk her as Rosseau did in the woods of St. Germain, dazed by fantasies, scents, and visions of beauty. The point is, my visions are the opposite of the civilization I live in. I'm seeking an alternative...You know quite a few bachelors and lumberjacks have ended up like him in a cabin or surplus company hut...The difference between the loner in his cabin and me is that I always go back to school on Monday morning. I know my attempts at finding an alternative are imperfect, and that my job is to teach schoolchildren to think." (pg 343-344)
The above is from a long passage that is one of the most beautiful passages I have ever read, and something we should all discover.
"He himself could not have borne to see Annie. But he had to. And, he thought to himself afterward, 'bear' is an empty word. Just a kind of exclamation. You bear it. You put two fingers on what has happened and feel it."
"It's true I walk in the forest every day and I am the only woman here who goes walking outside the berry-picking season. And who dares to walk alone. But that does not make me feel at home in the forest. I think the timber company's men or the Brandberg men on their road-making machines feel much more at home. I walk her as Rosseau did in the woods of St. Germain, dazed by fantasies, scents, and visions of beauty. The point is, my visions are the opposite of the civilization I live in. I'm seeking an alternative...You know quite a few bachelors and lumberjacks have ended up like him in a cabin or surplus company hut...The difference between the loner in his cabin and me is that I always go back to school on Monday morning. I know my attempts at finding an alternative are imperfect, and that my job is to teach schoolchildren to think." (pg 343-344)
The above is from a long passage that is one of the most beautiful passages I have ever read, and something we should all discover.
10.07.2013
"Say Nice Things About Detroit" Scott Lasser
" "Look," he said, "I've got a white family, and I've got a black family, so I can tell you this: black people are pretty much like white people, except for one thing- black people got to deal with white people. And that changes you." "
10.03.2013
"The Interestings" By Meg Wolitzer
“Part of the beauty of love was that you didn’t need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain. With love, apparently you didn’t necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.”
-Had to quickly return this book to the library, but really enjoyed it.
-Had to quickly return this book to the library, but really enjoyed it.
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