REVIEW: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
I felt compelled to use the ampersand more than anything else, because Eleanor & Park, you know.
I haven’t been so struck by YA literature since I last read John Green’s Looking for Alaska, but Rainbow Rowell knew what she was writing about when she imagined a red-haired wonder and an Asian-Irish boy in high school.
REVIEW: Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
I did it. I read the next book by the genius behind Gone Girl, and it is far more twisted than the fuckery you witnessed in her debut novel.
Not even an exaggeration. That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
MUSIC MONDAY: I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)
I really have to thank Spotify for my new favorite songs. If I didn’t download that app, I’d be stuck with Air Supply all my life (although you have to admit that’s not bad at all).
Although Le Beau has already picked the world’s most perfect song as our first dance, he still asked me to give my own input. But really, there’s no competing with the song he chose; it was so us! I had to try though, the window of opportunity being there already.
So I stumbled upon Sleeping At Last’s cover of I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles), the original by The Proclaimers. This is one of those Super Bowl songs, and I never really listened to it till now. My effort of not being too mainstream.
I am just so in love with it. I’ve always loved that song, but thanks to that episode in How I Met Your Mother, I feel like the meaning of the song was somehow diluted to a mere driving ballad.
This song is just abundant in love, devotion and commitment.
Of course, it still lost to Le Beau’s selection, being too slow to slow dance to. But now, we have another song to add to our playlist.
And so far, it’s our best find yet.
S/HE SAID: Killing them a second time
For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
— Elie Wiesel, Professor, Author, Nobel Laureate, Holocaust Survivor
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