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Forever grateful for the women who’ve helped me in my journey Especially my mother whose unconditional love and guidance has always been the light brightening my path #internationalwomensday

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I've missed you, bookstagram and all my bookish friends! If I've been quiet of late, it's only because I was gifted with wonderful reads over the holidays and have been caught up in a reading spell. (Bookworms that you are, I'm sure you know the feeling!) . . . Anyway, I thought I'd start the year on a joyful note with this quick book review. I normally don't enjoy self-help books, or books of the gimmicky sort, but I read this when I was going through some major career decisions and it struck a chord -- the author was a lawyer herself who realized that her career wasn't as fulfilling as she'd hoped. I liked that the author gave specific, doable advice and not just preachy cliches. From decluttering, to getting to bed early, becoming more physically active, even becoming more prayerful, I found this very helpful and continue to apply some of her concepts ☀ . . . From the website -- Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. “The days are long, but the years are short,” she realized. “Time is passing, and I’m not focusing enough on the things that really matter.” In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project. In this lively and compelling account, Rubin chronicles her adventures during the twelve months she spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific research, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier. Among other things, she found that novelty and challenge are powerful sources of happiness; that money can help buy happiness, when spent wisely; that outer order contributes to inner calm; and that the very smallest of changes can make the biggest difference.  #TheHappinessProject #GretchenRubin

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"It occurred to her then that life was conical in shape, the past broadening beyond the sharp point of the lived moment. The more life you had, the more the base expanded, so that the wounds and treasons that were nearly imperceptible when they happened stretched like tiny dots on a balloon slowly blown up. A speck on the slender child grows into a gross deformity in the adult, inescapable, ragged at the edges." . . At its core, this is a love story; it documents a marriage spanning several years. But Groff doesn't leave it at that -- she takes each character apart and exposes their flaws, and shows all the tumults, ugliness and lies that go into an otherwise perfect pairing. Those who've read One Day and Gone Girl may feel like this is a lovechild of those two novels. . . . From the website -- Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years. At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. #FatesandFuries #LaurenGroff

One of the rare instances where I caught the movie first and then decided to read the book. (In fact I wasnt even aware there was a book version, and that it was part of a series). And having seen the screen adaptation first, I could not get Sir Anthony Hopkins' distinctive drawl out of my head as I was going through the pages All told, I thought that the movie version did justice to the book, and the characters were perfectly cast. . . . Have you enjoyed the movie counterparts of your favorite literary characters? . . . From the website -- As part of the search for a serial murderer nicknames "Buffalo Bill," FBI trainee Clarice Starling is given an assignment. She must visit a man confined to a high-security facility for the criminally insane and interview him. That man, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, is a former psychiatrist with unusual tastes and an intense curiosity about the darker corners of the mind. His intimate understanding of the killer and of Clarice herself form the core of Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs--an unforgettable classic of suspense fiction. #TheSilenceoftheLambs #ThomasHarris

This is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful books I've read this year. I must confess, I didn't particularly enjoy this when I read it as a teenager, and I'm so glad my adult self decided to give it another go. I feel I was now able to grasp the complexities of each character -- an abortionist who devotes his life to care for orphans, an orphan who is torn between his best friend and the love of his life, a girl who worships a man to the point of self-destruction. The story moves at a glacial pace sometimes, but I appreciated such pauses because it gave me time to sink myself into each character's life. . . . Rating - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ . . . From the website -- Raised from birth in the orphanage at St. Cloud's, Maine, Homer Wells has become the protege of Dr. Wilbur Larch, its physician and director. There Dr. Larch cares for the troubled mothers who seek his help, either by delivering and taking in their unwanted babies or by performing illegal abortions. Meticulously trained by Dr. Larch, Homer assists in the former, but draws the line at the latter. Then a young man brings his beautiful fiancee to Dr. Larch for an abortion, and everything about the couple beckons Homer to the wide world outside the orphanage. #TheCiderHouseRules #JohnIrving

#Commonwealth was undoubtedly a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ read for me. It was magical and truly spellbinding, and I devoured it in two days!I cannot wait to discover #AnnPatchett 's other works . . . From the website -- The acclaimed, bestselling author—winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize—tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families’ lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny’s mother, Beverly—thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them. When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another. Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories. It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility that bind us together.

This collection of short stories about time is dreamy yet thought-provoking. Each story is bite-sized so the reader is able to process a concept without feeling overwhelmed. Einstein is a background figure in the book, and the stories are not scientific but more fable-like. Have you read this? How did you find it? . . Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ . . From the website -- A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar. Now translated into thirty languages, Einstein’s Dreams has inspired playwrights, dancers, musicians, and painters all over the world. In poetic vignettes, it explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence. #einsteinsdreams #alanlightman