Tag: Patrick Ness
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THE REST OF US JUST LIVE HERE by Patrick Ness
“Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.” Congratulations, Mr. Patrick Ness: you’ve done it again. You’ve written a novel that’s managed to simultaneously make me feel sad and happy and deeply understood, a story that is […]
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Book Review: THE CRANE WIFE
Author: Patrick Ness Number of Pages: 320 Publisher: Penguin Books Release Date: April 4, 2013 “George Duncan is an American living and working in London. At forty-eight, he owns a small print shop, is divorced, and lonelier than he realizes. All of the women with whom he has relationships eventually leave him for being too nice. But one night […]
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the value of bookstores.
Recently I went to my local bookstore just to look around. I didn’t have any specific book in mind to buy, and I was simply taking my time browsing the shelves. I came across two books in particular that caught my eye, and eventually I decided to buy them. They are: The Crane Wife by Patrick […]
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QUOTE: More Than This
“We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn’t true… We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we’d go crazy.” ~More Than This by Patrick Ness. When I was reading this, I couldn’t believe how true […]
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