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Really Random Tuesday is hosted by Suko.






It's Tuesday and I'm in the middle of reading When No One is Watching
by Joseph Hayes which is a political thriller that has me good and hooked. My review will be up later this week.





On another note, I found this quote and I can totally relate to it.

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag — and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty — and vice versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.


-Doris Lessing

Isn't that a great quote? Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

It got me thinking of what books have 'opened doors' for me at certain times in my life. Wuthering Heights was on the summer reading list when I was in high school, and so I checked it out of the library but I only made it through about 10 pages before giving up on it. When I chose to start reading the classics in my late twenties, I picked it up again and it's become an all-time favorite. Same goes for Austen's work, I don't think I would have enjoyed Pride & Prejudice or Persuasion if I read them as a teenager, yet now these are among my favorite books. I enjoy my beloved classics as an adult, as a teen I found these types of books boring.
I was more into Stephen King (still am), lots of Agatha Christie and cozy mysteries as a teenager.


What about you? What books have become favorites now as opposed to years ago?
Do you still read the same kind of books now that you read back then?



Enjoy your Tuesday! We've got some beautiful weather here, it's been in the 70's all week.

Happy Friday everyone. I'm reading two books at the moment. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, which is really funny, and A Circle of Souls, which is a very interesting thriller. What are you reading?




Enjoy your weekend. I'll leave you with another of my favorite Godward paintings.

Within you I lose myself...

Without you I find myself

Wanting to be lost again.

~Author Unknown

artwork by john william godward.org and is titled 'Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder'

I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.

To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one. ~Chinese Saying

Have a great Friday everyone, I may not get online till very late today, but I will be visiting my blogging friends as soon as I can :)

Thanks for all your sweet comments.

'How to be at peace now? By making peace with the present moment. The present moment is the field on which the game of life happens. It cannot happen anywhere else.'

-Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth : Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

'Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back. They bruise and bake and come back to haunt you.'
Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen

'Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.'

-Nora Roberts

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

~Abraham Lincoln

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

~Franz Kafka

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?

It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,

Who is already sick and pale with grief,

That thou her maid art far more fair than she:

Be not her maid, since she is envious;

Her vestal livery is but sick and green

And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.

It is my lady, O, it is my love!

O, that she knew she were!




William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

art by http://www.josephinewall.co.uk

"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."

-- Abraham Lincoln

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

J. K. Rowling

Audrey Hepburn on "beauty tips":

"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair,

let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day.

For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived,

reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,

you will find one at the end of each of your arms.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands;

one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others."

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

art by http://www.jwwaterhouse.com/

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

art by http://www.jwwaterhouse.com/

This week's Weekly Geeks theme is 'A Quote a Day'.
Here is today's quote:

A room without books is like a body without a soul.
-Cicero

When roses cease to bloom, dear


and violets are done,

When bumblebees in solemn flight

Have passed beyond the sun,



The hand that paused to gather

Upon this summer's day

Will idle lie, in Auburn.--

Then take my flower, pray!



-Emily Dickinson






beautiful art by j. wall

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words,

And never stops at all,



And sweetest in the gale is heard;

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little bird

That kept so many warm.



I've heard it in the chilliest land

And on the strangest sea;

Yet, never, in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.


-Emily Dickinson



art by j.wall

When roses cease to bloom, dear

and violets are done,

When bumblebees in solemn flight

Have passed beyond the sun,



The hand that paused to gather

Upon this summer's day

Will idle lie, in Auburn.--

Then take my flower, pray!

-Emily Dickinson


art by http://www.josephinewall.co.uk

Heart, we will forget him!

You and I, tonight!

You may forget the warmth he gave,

I will forget the light.



When you have done, pray tell me

That I my thoughts may dim;

Haste! lest while you're lagging.

I may remember him!



-Emily Dickinson


art by j.wall