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    • read me

      Posted at 6:03 pm by jasminedesirees, on January 2, 2014

      Now that the holidays are over and I’m back from vacation, I’m kind of excited to do nothing. This time of year always makes me reflective, and I tend to want to stay home, make plans, and focus on projects and things I’d like to accomplish over the upcoming year.

      We just got back from Mexico last night, and with only two days until the weekend, there isn’t really anything that sounds better to me than snuggling up under my new fuzzy blanket with a mug of hot tea and reading a good book.

      Here are some that I am excited to read in the next little while. I wish I was patient enough to try and wait my turn and get them from the library, but since patience isn’t among my many virtues, I will likely end of paying $10.00 each and downloading them onto my Kindle.

      Instant gratification may be expensive, but it is oh so sweet.

      The Summer We Read Gatsby– Danielle Ganek

      We are Water– Wally Lamb

      Manuscript Found in Accra– Paulo Coelho

      I am Malala– Malala Yousafzai

      Ordeal– Linda Lovelace

      Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy– Helen Fielding

      Posted in books, life | 0 Comments | Tagged books, bridget jones, Gatsby, reading
    • the fault in our stars

      Posted at 12:42 am by jasminedesirees, on August 13, 2013

      I’m reading The Fault in our Stars by John Green, and I’m pretty much obsessed with it. I’ve basically given up eating, bathing and talking to my husband because I can’t put it down.

      I’ve always loved to read, but a lot of the time, books are somewhat predictable. You can tell right away what’s going to happen, or else it starts out really well and you start to get excited, and then the ending feels rushed and contrived, and it’s really disappointing.

      I should probably finish reading it, I suppose, before I write something about it, but writing a book is hard. Like really hard. It’s easy to get distracted, or to get pulled away from your original idea, and before you know it you don’t have any idea who your characters are, or why they are doing what they are doing.

      A lot of the time I will read a book and think “That’s not how I would have done it” or “I could definitely write a better novel than this.” It’s easy to criticize when it’s not your work.

      But sometimes I read a book like this one, and instead of being filled with questions or criticism, I am just utterly content because somewhere out there is someone writing the story exactly the way you would do it, and it gives you hope that it is actually possible to do, and to do well.

      It seems like all of the good stories have already been told, every movie you see is a sequel or a remake, every book you read follows the same plot lines and has the same type of character. But this one is special. I almost don’t want to finish it because either it will not be as good as I thought it was and that will be sad, or it will be, and then it will be over and that will be even sadder.

      Posted in books | 0 Comments | Tagged books, john green, novel, reading, Shakespeare, the fault in ours stars
    • i was trying to describe you to someone…

      Posted at 5:55 pm by jasminedesirees, on January 29, 2013

      Saw this on StumbleUpon the other day. Love.

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      Posted in inspiration, loveliness | 0 Comments | Tagged books, inspiration, loveliness, quotes, reading
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