❤️❤️❤️💔  Claire Cameron’s The Bear is a thriller told from the perspective of a five year old girl named Anna White, whose parents are killed in a bear attack at Algonquin Park in Ontario, and she must take care of her two year old brother Stick in an effort to survive. I loved reading something…

❤️❤️❤️💔 Alan Lightman’s preternaturally beautiful novel Mr g is a story of the creation of the universe. Following the allegory of the Christian book of Genesis, often echoing the words used (…and it was good), Mr g combines the science that is the universe and the creationist ideals. The unnamed Maker describes his use of…

“If Max’s dad wanted the ball to reach him, why doesn’t he just stand closer?” – Budo – Memoirs of An Imaginary Friend – Matthew Dicks (2012) This is my favourite line of the whole book. It sums up parenting, childhood, understanding, logic, empathy, and the premise of this entire book in one thought. Have…

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” – Oscar Wilde {paraphrased} (1885)#oscarwilde #oscarwildequotes #quotes #fashion #literaryquotes #humor #humour #essay #wilde #wildean #ugliness #changeable #womenapp #read #reader #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #bookclub #booknerd #readers #readersofinstagram #bibliophile #kalidesautelsreads 

❤️❤️❤️❤️  Lily and The Octopus is a heart rending allegory about a single man and his beloved dachshund Lily. Written in the magic realism style, realistic events and situations are intersected by the fantastic. In the case of Ted, he talks to Lily and believes her to speak to him; they play monopoly and talk…

This month, my book club read Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks. .. . . How about you? Do you belong to a book club? If so, what are you reading?  #memoirsofanimaginaryfriend #matthewdicks #bookclub #bookclubofinstagram #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bibliophile #book #books #booknerd #read #reader #reading #readers #readersofinstagram #kalidesautelsreads 

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson – Self Reliance (1841)#literaryquotes #selfreliance #ralphwaldoemerson #emerson #transcendentalism #transcendentalist #quotes #quotestoliveby…

❤️❤️❤️❤️ This is not really a review so much as a full geeking out over a gift. Eleven is my Doctor and I adore the fantasy of the various characters that populate the Doctor Who Universe. My son and I both adore anything related to Doctor Who and this is a very fun book! #doctorwhocharacterencyclopedia…

❤️❤️❤️💔 The Vagina Monologues started as a dramatic presentation of the stories and representations of women and our relationships to ourselves, specifically sexually. Raising awareness of violence against women, and the sexual repression of women, from a generation when women were taught that discussion of vaginas was vulgar and why would one want to talk…

The pronunciation is never the same as mine, but I never tire of stumbling across my name in print. #thevaginamonologues #evensler #hinduism #kali #goddess #imKaylee #notKahlee #books #nameinprint #book #booknerd #bookclub #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookclubofinstagram #read #reader #reading #readers #readersofinstagram #kalidesautelsreads