#goodreadschallenge2016

It's not you late to join the #goodreadschallenge. How many #books have you read this year? #goodreadschallenge2016 #amreading

أخيرا دلوقتي تقدروا تشوفوا آخر #فيديو 📽🎬 على قناة #كتاب_قبل_النوم 😊 و #مشتريات شهر #ديسمبر للكتب 📚 وسؤال موجه ليكم عن #goodreadschallenge2016 ياترى قرأتم كم كتاب هذا العام؟ 👍🤓 (at Alexandria, Egypt)

Mothers and daughters. Strout's novel is set during a short period of time in the past when the eponymous character was hospitalized after complications from an appendectomy. Her estranged, extremely provincial mother sits at her bedside for 5 days and her presence allows Lucy to reflect on and reconcile her dysfunctional childhood growing up dirt poor in rural Illinois. Because most of what I know abt Strout is that her most famous work was adapted into an HBO miniseries, I didn't expect My Name is Lucy Barton to be as literary as it is. But the slim novel is an exquisite example of evoking presence through absence; what is not said between Lucy and her mother contains more meaning than what is. This seemingly unassuming character study is a powerful depiction of how we can withhold, crave, and choose to give love that's thought to be unconditional. I loved it. 5 stars. And that's 100! #bookworm #december2016reads #latergram #goodreadschallenge2016 #doneanddone #imstillreadingthough #becauseobviously

Feeling pretty proud of myself! Only a couple books away from my Goodreads goal!!👸🏻👸🏻👸🏻. . . . #bookworm #book #bookstagram #bookshelf #bookquotes #bookworm #bookblogger #bookstore #bookcover #books #goodreads #goodreadschallenge #goodreadsreadingchallenge #goodreadschallenge2016 #read #reading #readinglist

"But everyone falls in love with Holden Caulfield when they're sixteen. They read The Catcher in the Rye and don't feel so alone." - God-shaped Hole, Tiffanie DeBartolo Searched for my old, once read copy of The Catcher in the Rye to reread. Because when I was sixteen I didn't fall in love with Holden. I wasn't remotely attracted. In fact I didn't get him. At all. And when I saw high ratings in Goodreads, specially my friends', I'm seriously puzzled why. Maybe because I breezed through it to finish the book review I needed to submit. So giving the story again a chance, sixteen years after. #TheCatcherintheRye #JDSalinger #book25f2016 #GoodreadsChallenge2016