the.book.chat Favorite Quotes

*** Magical Thinking

“I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.” 

“I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.”  

*** Possible Side Effects

“Although my parents never attended church or mentioned Jesus except when they screamed at each other—and then they used his full name, 'Jesus Fucking Christ” 

“and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart.”  

*** I'm Sorry You Feel That Way: The Astonishing but True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut, Wife, Mother, andFriend to Man and Dog 

“No one would ever know it to look at me that as soon as I'm alone I am busy busy busy in the head.”  

 

*** When You Are Engulfed in Flames

“Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.” 

“It's safe to assume that by 2085 guns will be sold in vending machines but you won't be able to smoke anywhere in America.”  

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I love this visual prompt from Sweet Green Tangerine. Two of my favorite things, fun books and playing with my camera iPhone camera.

Are you ready for some photo overload?

 Cameras + Books = Love

This is one shelf to our built in desk/book shelf.

This is a future diy & I cannot wait to get started on it!

It's going to be sooo purdy when I'm finished with it :)

 Makeshift reading nook.

Purple little shelf that I painted. 

Oh and you see that ugly pink vase thingy, yep, 

made that baby in high school.

 {Poe}

 I have so many places marked.

I'm ready to get out and explore!

 A girls gotta have variety.

Am I right?!

 No home library is complete without a Zombie survival guide.

 My new specs and a view of one of my favorite random books.

 Another sneak peek.

Other People's Love Letters

This is a small small view of the daughters stash.

SNAKES!

This vintage beauty was a gift from a great gal pal :)

Thanks Jess!

And these two are my two kiddos favorites.

Humor Me- the.book.chat

Dear Authors, 

Humor me. Don’t just make me laugh, but make me snort and shoot Dr. Pepper out my nose simultaneously. - This is my court and you are my jester. Entertain me. Show me that you did not merely score high in your creative writing course, but you also have a personality.  I implore you, PLEASE make me laugh!

Full disclosure, I do not read near as much as I should or as much as I would like. My personal library is shabby in comparison to most mildly avid readers. 

The book:

I recently read Magical Thinking by Augusten Borroughs. Perhaps it is because its so fresh in my mind that I am picking it as my Funny book/memoir.

Augusten is a hilarious, self-loathing, gay man whom I now adore and would love to spend an entire day people watching & making snide comments with. Magical Thinking is not a fiction book, rather a memoir of his life. He takes a ton of essays and crams them into a book and somehow, it works. The way his mind works, the way he will share thoughts that some readers (not myself) might find off-putting, only makes me want to read more from him. He appeals to my dark side and makes me laugh out loud. He is my kind of author. Magical Thinking is worth reading just for the story of Debby the dwarfish house cleaner and the 'roid rage chapters alone.  See, you find this intriguing now, don’t you. My job here is done :)

"I myself am made entirely of flaws 

stitched together with good intentions." 

Surely you've seen this quote on Pinterest.
Now read the book and see why he says it.

 

 

I hear he is compares to David Sedaris a lot. So, 

I managed to get my hands on a copy of When You Are Engulfed In Flames & plan on starting it tonight. I'm pretty excited!

I’ll let ya know how it goes. 

Linking up with  -

Sweet Green Tangerine

BOOK CLUB

I did it, I finally joined a book club. It's online, but what isn't these days?

Drum roll please....

A landslide victory goes to The Book Thief by Markus Zusakus.
Tonight I am brushing the dust off my copy and will force myself to actually read it in its entirety this month. I've tried several times before, but there is just something that kept stopping me from completing it. I know it is a great book, every review I have read confirms this.

So here we go. Tonight I am cuddling up to a thief in my bed.

 source: myself