Tuesday, August 9, 2016

48-Hour Book Challenge finish line

In total, I read/listened to audio books for 24 hours and 43 minutes.

  • I read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, and Alexander Hamilton.
  • I listened to Gone Girl and Small Victories.

Saturday, August 6, 2016

Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn

He Giving Treed me out of existence.
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, by Wendy Mass

"A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. "It is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves...This same fight is going in inside you--and inside every other person too."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"
The old man replied simply, "The one you feed."
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith

Suddenly, the right word about mama came to Francie. "Mama never fumbles."
No, Katie never fumbled. When she used her beautifully shaped but worn-looking hands, she used them with surety, whether it was to put a broken flower into a tumbler of water with one true gesture, or to wring out a scrub cloth with one decisive motion--the right hand turning in, and the left out, simultaneously. When she spoke, she spoke truly with the plain right words. And her thoughts walked in a clear uncompromising line.

Friday, August 5, 2016

Mary's 48-Hour Reading Challenge

I'm getting started on my time, planning to use 48 hours without a pause. I'll start with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and move on from there...