I write because I read. I read because I write.
My last Top Ten Tuesday was six months ago and I am grateful that The Artsy Ready Girl remains committed to this beautiful prompt. This week's theme is: Book Quotes that Fit X Theme (Pick any theme you want, i.e., motivational quotes, romantic dialogues, hunger-inducing quotes, quotes that fill you with hope, quotes on defeating… Continue reading 10 Book Quotes for a Writer’s Heart
I missed last week of The Artsy Reader’s Top Ten Tuesday so here I am catching up. 🙂 Given that I do not have much to share about books with fall covers, please allow me to post about: Favorite Book Quotes (these could be quotes from books you love, or bookish quotes in general). Suppose permission… Continue reading 10 book quotes from my recent reads
Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family by Mitch Albom Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought… Continue reading 6 Lessons I Learned from Little Fighter, Chika Jeune (perhaps a book review)
A 59-year old widower. Grumpy. Trying and failing to kill himself, many times. Here's an odd, funny, yet utterly moving story. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ The first novel by the Swedish author Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove is a balance between heart wrenching and thought provoking lines as well as chuckle-inducing… Continue reading 5 Quotes Why I Love A Man Called Ove
Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas by Ruskin Bond Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ As I remember that this blog is A Reading Writer, and as I want to fuel my reading pace again, I'll start to post quotations and wise words I loved from my recent reads, starting with Rain in the Mountains by India's… Continue reading Book Quotes: Rain in the Mountains
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ What is it about: At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live.… Continue reading Book Review: When Breath Becomes Air
"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily,… Continue reading history and poetry
I'm participating (finally) for the first time to my dearie Jade's Writer's Quote Wednesday (WQW) and my first quote is from the Still I Rise woman, Maya Angelou and her words that have been "the force" that pushed me to write this blog almost three years ago. (Woah! Time flies! :D) In my first post, Agony published… Continue reading ending agony (WQW)
You need not to be famous to become somebody. You are already a hero to the hearts you touched deeply. And remember He made you, wonderfully. --- ©2016 Rosemawrites@A Reading Writer. All Rights Reserved. Photo credit: Proverbs 31 Ministries For 3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge as tagged by devereaux frazier and Ladylee Manila. ❤ Please join if you… Continue reading On Being Unnoticed
Let's choose to forgive even if forgiveness isn't asked. Your heart is too beautiful to keep those ugly poisons inside. --- ©2016 Rosemawrites@A Reading Writer. All Rights Reserved. Photo credit: Proverbs 31 Ministries For 3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge as tagged by devereaux frazier and Ladylee Manila. ❤ Please join if you want. Let's spread some motivations? 🙂
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