Beth's little wanderlust

[1/15] . I decided to start this year by finishing this book, Call Me By Your Name by Andre Achiman. Honestly, I would say this is not a book I typically would love to read. But after doing some research and getting some recommendations I wanted to give it a try. . . . The story sets in Italian Riviera back in the mid 1980s. It tells about Elio 17-years-old boy (almost 18 years) who falls in love with 24-years-old man named Oliver, who spend whole summer days in the Elio family's mansion to revise his manuscript as a postdoc teaching at Columbia University. And those six weeks' duration could give them an experience that marks them for a lifetime . . . Achiman describes the whole story by using Elio pov and in my opinion, all those inner restlessness seems natural for a boy who found himself (in his puberty) falls in love with a man. I also love how the way Oliver choose to continue his life in the end after what they have been gone through. Even if it hurts but that should be happened, right? And my most favorite character in this book is Elio's Father. He is one of best thing you can encountered on this novel. I love how he treat his son/family and I love the portrait of his wisdom. There is one moment he said to Elio, "We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!" . . . It's not just another coming of age novel. It's not just a gay love story. I refer this novel as a love story and a family story. I would recommend you to read the story by listening to mystery of love and visions of Gideon by sufjan stevens. It would be completely perfecto. I give 4.5/5 stars. #cmbynreview #goodreadschallenge #14togo #2018goals

Ah right. Welcoming October means my favourite season has come. It's autumn again 🍂🍁 #reminiscing #lastautumn (at Kyoto, Japan)

Today was the day I stepped my feet in Japan for the first time. It's been one year since that day but i still could hardly believe this happened. I just opened photo folder of the trip and stopped a little bit longer to see this picture. Well i know this is not a really good picture, but the memory is. We went to watch fireworks at Hanabi Festival which coincidentally was held on the first day I arrived in Japan. We watched it at a seashore while some bros busy with their camera, some bris busy with their funny jokes, and someone busy with both his camera and takoyaki (we call him bro BS) lol, and there's someone that stayed still and immersed with everything around her, me. At that moment everything's just feels right and real. Like it's been arranged perfectly. I will always be grateful for every second I spent with wonderful people like them. I will always cherish every moment. #JapanSeries

I personally think that love is a basic and natural thing you need to have in life. Even we’re all born with and by it How can you live without loving yourself? How can you live without loving every single thing that happened in your life? If someone tell you she-or-he is fine with living without love. It is a lie. Because it is not life. She-or-he is just pretending to be a part of it.

My father. 03.06.2015. by telephone

It's a #WorldBookDay. Happy World Book Day everyone! Nowadays I am so into crime serials, films, and novels, so I would like to recommend a very good crime book. The best of sherlock holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This collection presents readers a rich concentration of the magic and gives readers such a jolly good time. We should thank him for geniously creating this wonderful fictional character. Let me give you one of my fav quote from this amazing author. "Crime is common. Logic is rare . Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell" Arthur Conan Doyle, The Copper Beeches Hope you're enjoying your book day right now. Cheers! #sherlockholmes #collection #book