I’m obsessed!
Started reading The Shell Seekers again. I looked at the YouTube link that Pete sent me about the movie adaptation and it is still clear but I couldn’t understand the dialogue/conversations much. I will watch it again as soon as I am done with rereading the book. It has been years.
Last night, I enjoyed the short stories featured in A Place Like Home. Wonderful short stories. Set aside the other books I have started…haha! My TBR list is quite long now – some books by David Baldacci, Anita Diamant, Paulo Coelho, Fredrik Backman, Emilie Hart, Gwen Bristow, William Kent Krueger, Leon Uris, Ken Follett, Viola Shipman and other some new authors. I loved Bristow’s Tomorrow is Forever which I read wayback in college. It was my first taste of historical fiction. One of these days, I will do all those reread about the books I enjoyed fifty years ago.
Goodreads says I have read 1,959 books since I started my virtual library there back in 2011 when shelfari.com closed. Those books borrowed by Dad from the UST High School Library were not included in that list. When we got flooded in 2009, we lost so many lovely books that Nissa, Josef and I have accumulated over the years including our three Thomasian yearbooks and even their grad pictures. We have slowly replaced them with new books and new authors.
I can’t forget what Stephen King said on his lovely book On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. And I quote, ‘books are a uniquely portable magic’.
Dreams And Escapes 