"If brains are houses with many rooms then I live in the basement."
Last one from this book. Have started the next one already.
"If brains are houses with many rooms then I live in the basement."
Last one from this book. Have started the next one already.
"If there could be only one of us it would be you."
Both haunting and loving.
"She has always known that houses are bodies and that her body is a house in more ways than most."
This was incredible. It has quite poetic prose. Definitely one of those books that stays with you.
Well, the first quarter of the year anyway. Sooooo much music, my music picks of 2025 playlist is already over two hours long.
January seemed to be country and girly pop inspired, interestingly.
Notable mentions (there is actually more than this!), mostly albums:
And then there is stuff I’ve not got to around yet and will have to roll over into April:
Probably said superb too much. Oh well.
"He dropped his arm over my shoulder and the fear slithered off me and dropped behind like a discarded skin."
From a prose point of view I wish that was the ending. Although Nora is probably lucky it wasn’t even if she didn’t think it at the time.
"My heart spread out and escaped from its hard embattlements."
"I fell in love with his long legs, saw him getting smaller in the distance, felt him pulling one of those long strings out of my heart."
Loved it. Has been on my list for some time. I didn’t know anything about it, but didn’t realise it’s a cross between Trainspotting and Normal People, but set in Australia (I’m sure people would hate me for saying that). And of course pre-dating either of those by years. I find anything “relationshipy” incredibly stressful and this stressed me to the max (but I still thought it was great).
"Remember: There is power in being in your 40s. Your body may have changed in the past decade, but so too have your budget and your confidence. This is the era in which you buy nice clothes that make you look good. It should be the best you've ever dressed."
Made me LOL and then stop reading the article. I had more of a clothing budget when I was a teenager. On a related note, I have just bought some running shorts from Vinted for £3. Mostly to go over the top of my worn leggings so I don’t get done for indicent exposure. Has taken me about 30 months to “save” for them.
A quote not from a book! I’ve nearly finished my next book though.
Maybe in my 50s?
"And, today, the snow did not look like a killing blanket but like a tender coverlet designed to keep the cold away from germinating seeds."
Sarah Walters says in the forward “it’s also the most engaging and accessible of her fictions” and I was going to say “but I can’t remember The Magic Toyshop being this bonkers”, and yet it turns out I did say just that.
"There are many reasons, most of them good ones, why a woman should want to murder her husband."
I mean, in the grand scheme of things, she’s not wrong.
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