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Practicing my sketching.
“It is impossible to be lonely when you’re zesting an orange. Scrape the soft rind once and the whole room fills with fruit. Look around: you have more than enough. Always have. You just didn’t notice until now.” #sketching #art #urbansketching #watercolorjournal #watercolors #drawing #illustration #artistsoninstagram #sketchbook #creativity #artwork #inspirationalart 
Practicing my sketching.
“Live in each season as it passes. Breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit. And resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” #sketching #art #urbansketching #watercolorjournal #watercolors #drawing #illustration #artistsoninstagram #sketchbook #creativity #artwork #inspirationalart 
Practicing my sketching.
“Then death sits you down at his table and lays a page in front of you and after all these years of what you should have been doing, whispers to you, save your life.” #sketching #art #urbansketching #watercolorjournal #watercolors #drawing #illustration #artistsoninstagram #sketchbook #creativity #artwork #inspirationalart 
Practicing my sketching.
“Let me keep my distance, always, from those Let me keep company always with those who say #sketching #art #urbansketching #watercolorjournal #watercolors #drawing #illustration #artistsoninstagram #sketchbook #creativity #artwork #inspirationalart 
Practicing my sketching.
“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.” #sketching #art #urbansketching #watercolorjournal #watercolors #drawing #illustration #artistsoninstagram #sketchbook #creativity #artwork #inspirationalart 
Practicing my sketching.
“I may not have gone where I intended to go but I think I ended up where I needed to be.” #sketching #art #urbansketching #watercolorjournal #watercolors #drawing #illustration #artistsoninstagram #sketchbook #creativity #artwork #inspirationalart
3.5 stars, interesting thriller. twists and turns but also not the ending i thought it would have. liked it!
I love Rachel Joyce. I love her rich and three-dimensional characters. I love her immersive stories. I love how when you finish her novel, you are left with a feeling of being full after a delicious meal. The Homemade God is full of adult children whose lives are stunted because they have continually revolved around their father. Their father who marries a very young woman that none of them have met and dies soon after. Now they travel to Italy to figure out what happened, who this woman is, and how their father died. And they each come undone one by one. The time on the island changes each of them in irrevocable ways. This is a story about family, and the roles we can slip into and stay stuck in for a long, long time. The hold our parents can have on us. The pieces of ourself that we give up along the way, never to realize how much of it we’ve sacrificed. It’s a beautiful story, beautifully told. That I grew to love each of those unlikable characters serves as a testament to the powerful storytelling and character building talent of Joyce. with gratitude to netgalley and The Dial Press for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review
This was an interesting story about what happens when a critic who loves giving terrible reviews (and is even more despicable for other reasons) finally gets his due when an artist decides to make her whole show about what he did to her. There’s a lot to unpack in this story about art, self-expression, payback, what’s ok to criticize, family, trauma, and one’s reputation. I felt that the story was both slow and the characters were all not-likable which made it hard to feel sorry for them and for what was happening to them. It created a distance between me and the story. It was still really interesting and a lot of food for thought. with gratitude to netgalley and Doubleday for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review
I am a huge Stiefvater fan and could not wait to read her adult debut. Even though this plot seemed a bit weird, I knew that I would find the writing enjoyable. And I wasn’t wrong. There was so much of Stiefvater’s attention to detail, her quirky characters, her unusual storylines. I loved June as a main character. I loved all the Gilfoyle stories and I loved each of the unique characters along the way and I really liked the twist. Even though this was historical fiction, it was more because it felt like a Stiefvater novel. I wasn’t crazy about the water under the hotel and never truly understood its significance to the story line. I am sure this is my miss but in my opinion it didn’t add much to the story. with gratitude to netgalley and Viking for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
There’s something magical in Wilson’s ability to tell a story. His characters are a little bit off, but they are so lovable, so real and so memorable. He then takes these characters and puts them in interesting situations. The dialogue is memorable, jumps off the page and fills you with joy even during a tragic scene. I love reading his novels and Run for the Hills is one of my favorites. I loved all the characters in this story, especially Mad and Rube. The yearning for belonging and family and finding a sense of grounding is at the root of this beautiful story. And of course life is never what we want it to be, it’s always both less and more. As in all his novels, Wilson makes you fall in love with his characters. with gratitude to netgalley and Ecco for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review
I have been wanting to read Boyne’s novels since I first found out about them. They were published in England individually over the last few years but never made it here to the US. Now that I’ve read it, I think having them published all together is actually so much more powerful than reading them one by one, a year apart. This was an incredibly powerful read. Boyne’s ability to create three-dimensional characters is incredible. In 170 or so pages, the reader gets to know the characters so deeply well that it can evoke all sorts of emotions. I loved how there’s always a tie-in from story to story, I loved how the lens changes with each story and you’re experiencing a totally different perspective and you feel frustration, sorrow, anger, despair and so much more for each character at different times. I love how much these stories stretch your mind and show you that people are complex, stories are complex, we are all flawed in ways big and small. It makes you think about your own boundaries with what’s forgivable and what’s not. About grief and it’s lasting impact. About trauma and it’s ability to stain all that comes after it. About forgiveness. And I love that the last story brings everything back full cycle. Boyne is an incredibly talented author. These are hard stories to read, all of them. And they are also really really powerful. with gratitude to netgalley and Henry Holt and Co. for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review |
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