Tag Archive: sadness

Review: The Book Thief- Markus Zusak

It has took me so long to get around to reading this book that it’s probably been read and read again by now. And then I found out the film was due to… Continue reading

Review: A beautiful rework of a Russian fairy tale

“In my old age, I see that life itself is often more fantastic and terrible than the stories we believed as children, and that perhaps there is no harm in finding magic among… Continue reading

Review: Bitter, harrowing and very different to Harry Potter… I love it.

I just want to thank everyone who has recently liked and commented on/followed my blog. It was a lovely surprise to come on here to find so many interesting and warm comments made… Continue reading

Review: Eat, Pray, Love- Elizabeth Gilbert

A New York Times Paperback Nonfiction Bestseller for over 200 weeks, and over 10 million copies now in print. Eat, Pray, Love has been passed among millions of women around the world as… Continue reading

The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter, by Ezra Pound

While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played about the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, You walked about my seat, playing with… Continue reading

Eat, Pray, Love

”I explained that deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you… Continue reading