Living Juicy: Daily Morsels for Your Creative Soul by
S.A.R.K.
My rating:
5 of 5 stars
Readers are supposed to read one page a day of this book, because in each page the author talks abut something that should be thought about and practiced. But I couldn't, and kept reading until I finished it, in approximately half a month. Now I can reread it as it should be read.
Living juicy is about finding the right and most delicous juice to nourish our creative souls, as the author says, and start seeing life differently. As a matter of a fact, it made me look at it in the innocent way I used to when I was a wee child, and eveyone can guess how delightful is that.During my read, I had to bear the wisdom tooth's dreadful pain, and the blissfully dear book made me forget it for few moments and relax. Yes! It can be that powerful!
All of its pages are ornamented with simple and beautiful drawings that inspired me to include some in my diary, and it turned out to be a very great idea.
S.A.R.K. offers in her book 52 lessons, to fit the 52 weeks of the year, and each page provides one part of the lesson of the week in question (I hope it makes sens for you), just so you get an idea about the book's curious structure.
I'd like to conclude with one of my favorite quotes that sums it all up:
"A day can shift into a profound place by the reading of a single perfect sentence, at the perfect time."
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Emily's Quest by
L.M. Montgomery
My rating:
5 of 5 stars
With this book, I was able to figure out what Lewis's famous quote "We read to now we are not alone" actually means.
Emily is 20, and she realizes that she's in a painful, one-sided love with her childhood friend Teddy. Teddy is a famous artist now, and he seldom visits Blair Water. Her dearest friend Ilse is also in Montreal, building her successful career and our poor heroine found herself alone and distressed over her friends' neglect and had many white nights because of this. She has her own successful career of an author, but that was not enough to feel supported and balanced.
Emily's pains were so real to me that I wondered if Montgomery was describing her own, and so were all the characters of the book, in the back of my head they are real poeple who lived once in this world.
To sum it up, Lucy Maud Montgomery is, and will always be the one for me!
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Emily Climbs by
L.M. Montgomery
My rating:
5 of 5 stars
This second book, as the reader may predict, continues to tell of Emily's story of life.
Emily goes to high school in Shrewsbery, and does well there in terms of study. She meets up with friends and fiends, rejects many proposals of marriage (partly because of her dreams and ambitions, and partly because of being in love with here childhood friend), gets humiliated at times and had to bear poeple's dreadful injustice.
All in all, she's "got a bit of bitter worldly wisdom" as she had mentioned in her diary.
That, again, as I had said in my previous review of the first book, might sound very common, but it really is written in a style that will make you think you had never read anything like it before.
Well the novel cast its spell on me, and I think that anyone with a sensible taste (not that I accuse any reader of anything other than that) would indulge its monotonousness and only enjoy the beauty of its style and ideas.
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