❤️❤️❤️💔 A Tale For The Time Being is a magical realism, wherein the author herself is a protagonist, as is her husband, and a young Japanese girl who wrote a diary. The book switches points of view between Ruth, the reader of the diary, and Nao, the 15 year old girl who wrote the diary.…

It is quiet for the moment, so I took an hour to myself. I set myself a daily goal of 600 words, and am proud when I manage to smash it. I am really hoping to get this draft finished in the next 4 months, but I am only 42% of the way there…  The…

Shelfie Sunday – my corner of heaven. Built by my amazing husband (go check out @whiteknight_designs Instagram for his amazing woodwork), and stuffed with my treasures. What’s on your shelf?  #shelfie #shelfiesunday #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookshelfdecor #colour #colorful #color #colourful #book #books #booksbooksandmorebooks #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #booklove #bookcover #bookclubofinstagram #read #readallthebooks #readersofinstagram #reader #reading #readingnook #readinginbed #kalidesautelsreads 

❤️❤️❤️❤️ The Dinner by Dutch author Herman Koch is an intricate dark tale about two brothers and their families and the event that will undo them. Paul Lohman is a former teacher, his brother Serge is a famous politician, and they each have sons that have committed a crime, and they meet for dinner to…

“You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else responsibility for your life.” – Mary Oliver: Upstream (2016)#maryoliver #upstream #poetry #poet #poetess #whimsical #whimsy #youareinchargeofyourownlife #youareinchargeofyourownhappiness #travelupstream #happiness #nature #nurtureyoursoul #readersofinstagram #reading #read #book #bibliophile #books #booklist #booklove #quotes #quotestoliveby #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #kalidesautelsreads 

Do I want to talk? No, not really. Do I have things to say? Yes, of course.  I do not like out loud. I do not enjoy, nor have I ever enjoyed, talking on the phone. Sometimes, I will talk to my mom for an hour on the phone, and sometimes the idea of forcing…

“We can’t win against obsession. They care, we don’t. They win.” ~ Ford Prefect – Douglas Adams: Life, The Universe, Everything (1982)  Douglas Adams’ writing is funny because it just is, and it is also funny because satire is always funny. (How’s that for and Adamsian sentence?) The ability to point out societal flaws and…

I am trying something radical – only taking out the number of books I can read in the time I am allotted. This week, it is Mary Oliver’s Upstream, Margaret Atwood’s Negotiating With The Dead: The Writer on Writing and Zoe Fishman’s Inheriting Edith. #maryoliver #upstream #inheritingedith #zoefisher #negotiatingwiththedead #margaretatwood #novel #essayist #essays #writing #read #library…

❤️❤️❤️ Ian McEwan Booker Prize winning novella Amsterdam is a dark comedy about two men, Clive – a successful composer, and Vernon – the editor of a newspaper, good friends who met through their love affairs with a woman. Opening with her funeral, we see the friend’s undoing themselves in their quest for success. Each…

❤️❤️❤️ When You Are Engulfed In Flames was my very first foray into David Sedaris’ hilarious and vicious essays. Sedaris writes of his husband and his family, in sarcasm so caustic it is amazing that his family still speaks to him. I thoroughly enjoyed Sedaris’ take on life, his dripping cynicism causing more than several…