My favorite “anybody-can-relate-to-this” part:

“Sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them.”

Sooo good.

Watched the movie with family after reading the book.

My favorite “anybody-can-relate-to-this” part:

Betrayal…For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first. (Chap 9 pg 114)

I’m obsessed with this boy band.

Good stories/Good reads:

• Please – Alicia Aspinwall
• The King and His Hawk – Retold by James Baldwin: (It’s about Genghis Khan’s temper)
• The Vulture – Hilaire Belloc: (If you want to watch your food intake)
• Mr. Vinegar and His Fortune – Retold by James Baldwin
• The Fisherman and His Wife – Retold by Clifton Johnson
• George Washington’s Rules of Civility
• How Much Land Does a Man Need? – Leo Tolstoy
• Aristotle on Self-Discipline
• Etiquette in a Nutshell
• The Bell of Atri – Retold by James Baldwin
• The American’s Creed – William Tyler Page
• The Charge of the Light Brigade – Alfred Tennyson
• F Scott Fitzgerald to His Daughter
• A Devoted Friend

I started reading the Bible. I asked God to let His words speak to me and that I may have the understanding to know His words. This was the verse that spoke to me strongly.

Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God”

This album seems to be the soundtrack of my life right now esp. track Not Over You, Run Every Time, and Stealing. I probably listened to Run Every Time for about a hundred times. Love this album.

I’m not quite sure how I feel about this book or how it ended. All I know is that I needed more answers, more revelations. It felt like this wasn’t the end. I did like the symbolism of good and evil in reference to the python and the apple in an ironic way. I like how Lemony S. was faithful in including Beatrice till the end.

My fave “anybody-can-relate-to-this” parts:

“It is one of the strange truths of life that practically nobody likes to be stared at and that practically nobody can stop themselves from staring.”

“If you live among people… then every moment of your life is an incident of peer pressure, and you cannot avoid it… And if you try to avoid every instance of peer pressure you will end up without any peers whatsoever…”

I stop reading in the middle of chapter three. I guess I got tired of getting to resolution part of the story. After a week of just looking at the book on my desk staring back at me, I went back to reading it. As soon as I got to chapter four, I couldn’t put it down. I could kick myself for not continuing on when I was on chapter three. Anyway, to me this book is about moral corruption. Can good, decent people be corrupted morally?

My favorite “anybody-can-relate-to-this” part:

When someone has disappointed you, it is often difficult to decide whether to continue their acquaintance, even if the disappointers have done noble things in the meantime. (Chapter Eight)

(I love the mirror-written chapters since I do mirror-writing, too.)