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These are some of my favorite badges that I have earned on the Maricopa County Reads website.
Also, here are some of my favorite Instagram pictures about books.
The Midnight Library by Matt HaigAfter The Great Gatsby we chose this book because we both thought that it was interesting. Ale and I went to the library to pick up the books from the library. I ordered a book with regular font and one with a large font just so we can each have a copy in our hands. I also ordered a graphic novel of The Great Gatsby that I’m reading a chapter a day.
I saw some typos in the reading of this book and that turns me off a bit.
* Checked Out Physical Books: Friday, July 8, 2022, 1:55 PM
* Due: Friday, July 29, 2022
~ 74 chapters
21 days
74÷21=3.523809523809523
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Read 4 chapters everyday until due date. This will be the seventh book from our Sister Book Club.
What was so weird is that I copied and pasted the above list from my Where Are You Now? by Mary Higgins Clark-Notes & Highlights Google Doc and every date was the same but a different year lol
Our last reading session was 42 mins. We finished reading this book on Sunday, July 24, 2022 at 12:10 p.m.
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig YouTube Playlist:
“She caught sight of the cover of Your Cat magazine. A ginger tabby. Her mind felt loud, like a Sturm und Drang symphony, as if the ghost of a German composer was trapped inside her mind, conjuring chaos and intensity” (15).
“She sat down at the little electric piano but played nothing. She thought of sitting by Leo’s side, teaching him Chopin’s Prelude in E Minor. Happy moments can turn into pain, given time” (21).
* I also wanted to say that the part where Nora first went to the midnight library was really scary! It reminded me of these videos I saw on YouTube:
“But then – while her brother rocked out on his guitar to Nirvana – she traded lengths for scales, and taught herself how to play not just Chopin but classics like ‘Let It Be’ and ‘Rainy Days And Mondays’” (71).
“The thing she had once loved about swimming was the disappearing. In the water, her focus had been so pure that she thought of nothing else. Any school or home worries vanished. The art of swimming – she supposed like any art – was about purity. The more focused you were on the activity, the less focused you were on everything else. You kind of stopped being you and became the thing you were doing” (72-73).
“Nora struggled to think. She thought of Ash – with his Simon & Garfunkel guitar songbook. ‘Let’s do “Bridge Over Troubled Water”’ (159).
* Howl by The Labyrinths on pages 182-184. I found some audio recordings of how other people interpreted this song from this book.
“‘The guitar bit went well. He could play ‘Smoke On The Water’ within a week of getting it, but he wasn't into the piano and decided he didn't want it cluttering up his room’” (193).
“In one life she was a concert pianist, currently on tour in Scandinavia, playing night after night to besotted crowds (and fading into the Midnight Library during one disastrous rendition of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 at the Finlandia Hall in Helsinki)” (212).
“‘So long as there are still books on the shelves, you are never trapped. Every book is a potential escape’” (218).
“In fact, when he sang ‘The Sound of Silence’, accompanied by his guitar, she found herself guilty wishing he would take the title literally” (240).
“And suddenly he wasn’t getting into trouble with teachers any more, and he’d play everything from Chopin through Scott Joplin to Frank Ocean and John Legend and Rex Orange County with the same care and commitment” (256).
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| A beautiful naked baby boy sleeping all day on his new pink pillow! |
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| My "Currently Reading" corner. |
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| Journaling away. I was filling out my reading journal. |
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| Dark skies full of rain! |
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| I bought all my journals from my wishlist! |
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| Plus 20! |
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| My morning rain reading routine. |
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| I bought "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" from this website. |
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| The set up as of that time. |
The Great Gatsby: The Graphic Novel by Fred Fordham
City of Bones by Mike Raicht
