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On bookshelves, summer & the unknown

I promised myself I won't get a new book until after I finish my thesis (one of my random superstitions). There were tempting and desperate times but now that I've graduated, nothing can stop me now! Time flies fast and one of the lessons of life is that do what you love, and do it often. Summer's here, the future is wide with possibilities (I'm one of the unemployed now), but I don't know where I'll be next month. I don't know what books I'll read next. The unknown is such a thrilling and scary place. And I don't know why I'm being sentimental in a supposedly short post about my new paperbacks.

A book is a good excuse for an escape.

The sun, the sand, sundresses, iced tea, YA and historical fiction. A good book will keep you company and lets you have something to daydream about. It's a summer escape on its own :)

I'd gladly have summer flings with these reads:

1. Breathing - Cheryl Renee Herbsman

2. A Map of the Known World - Lisa Ann Sandell

3. Sharing Sam - Katherine Applegate

4. Love You Hate You Miss You - Elizabeth Scott

Day 28 – Favorite title

The Sky is Everywhere


Poetry in one sentence.

Escape, travel, dream. Read.

Just keep on doing what you love doing the most.

Day 27 – The most surprising plot twist or ending

I really didn't expect the ending. It felt strange that after twenty long years of missed chances and fate bringing them back together would eventually lead to that. I was thinking along the lines of lovers becoming strangers That would even be bearable. It was surely unexpected.

Day 26 – A book that changed your opinion about something

It changed my perception on life and the future. This book made me feel infinite.

Life is a Great Perhaps.

“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”

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Day 25 – A character who you can relate to the most

I don't know how I relate to her but she's everything I want to be.

Lennie Walker from The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson. 

Writing poems on every flat surface available and leaving them anywhere. She writes to cope up with her grief, which I also do when I'm heartbroken. She road-reads, which I think is cool. She's a girl caught between nursing her sadness and wanting to break free.

"I'm crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly"

The Sky is Everywhere + me = misery loves company

Feeling a bit down. Reread excerpts from The Sky is Everywhere (it's not the champagne-in-my-veins-happy kind of book) but I'm good again. Just craving for heartbreakingly beautiful words that makes me want to cry my heart out and makes me feel alive at the same time.

I look into his sorrowful eyes and he into mine, and I think, He misses her as much as I do, and that's when he kisses me - his mouth: soft, hot, so alive, it makes me moan. I wish I could say I pull away, but I don't. I kiss him back and don't want to stop because in that moment I feel like Toby and I together have, somehow, in some way, reached across time, and pulled Bailey back.


Madly in love with the US edition hardcover.

My favorite parts are Lennie's "scattered poems". These full-colored pages comes with the UK edition.

Read my book feature for this book here. x

Day 24 – A book that you wish more people would’ve read

Presumption doesn't feel like a sequel, or even a presumption of what the sequel to Pride and Prejudice should be like. The writing style is so Austen, you'd really wonder if the author wrote it herself. It really is an indulgence.

I have a huge crush on P&P's Mr. Darcy. Then I met Persuasion's Captain Wentworth. His subtle ways, his feelings bottled up after 8 long years, his letter to Anne. I was really persuaded. The most romantic book Austen wrote.

I'd gladly lend my copy to anyone who's willing! x