Cristi Cîrdei

"Jack, I swear--"

this line gets me every time.
add The Wings by Gustavo Santaolalla to the mix and i'm crying my heart out.

two kids talk about their inebriated mothers. one of them says something along the lines of: that's what alcoholics want — to die. it's just that some take the long road.

and: there is nothing you can do to help.

Shuggie Bain is a book about losing one's self to the coldness of addiction. losing what you were and what you could be, and losing the people you care about.

it is also about finding oneself. or rather, finding out that you are not actually lost, you just are. and you should start owning your self.


i liked this book. it is an emotional story. a good story, in its tragedy and realism.

as seen on Kurzgesagt.

quite emotional. we are all one. do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUALBUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

Maybe George Orwell's choice of characters is right in that people acting in such ways are less-than-human.

‘We read books to know we are not alone.'
-William Nicholson

I love this book and I love it's characters; a bunch of misfits in whom I glimpsed pieces of myself.

Beautifully written, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is a story about alienation, about finding one's place in a world that seems to be made of a totally different material than one is made of, and about the longing for something, or someone, to make one feel listened to, feel seen, accepted, and loved.

It's a book you certainly have to come back to.

Carson McCullers is now on my radar and this will become one of my comfort books and one of my favourites.