Sybil Reads.....Everything!

  I wish you all could sit here with me, and go through my writing process. I have changed the font, and size several times. Of course I have hand written endless ideas, and pray for a connecting dot.
  This is my monthly book review blog, with several forks in the road.
  You see, being brilliant, even in my own eyes!!! takes time. You need the proper clothes, yes clothes.
  It is winter-ish and I'm freezing. So after the turtleneck shirt, sweater and the heat cranked up, I wrapped up in a scarf. Now I need to stop and take some photos of this look, for the visual learners that some of you may be!!! Now you can fully understand, all my delays.
  The kindle is near, the for tablets that I scribble on are scattered all around, several magazine articles for future blogs, peek up at me!!!knowing their turn will come. A thesaurus and dictionary, my best friends, ready to slow down my writing and in some cases, speed it up!!( no I do not use dictionary.com, I like to look words up on paper)( sometimes I even sniff the pages) Now I may be ready to write??
  The title says it all, or it should, I read like SYBIL! Which personality picks out the books, I never know, it greatly amuses me. Eclectic reading, is a wonderful thing.
  My list for this month of dreary February is as follows; My Beloved World-Sonia Sotomayor, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie-Ayana Mathis, The Lizard Cage-Karen Connelly, Year of Wonders: Novel of the Plague-Geraldine Brooks, The Fault in Our Stars-John Green.
Know that all of them had good points, and will not appeal to all, you have to find your own Sybil reading pattern.
  I will just give you a glimpse of my net, that is cast WIDE!!
The Lizard Cage fascinated me in its title, and premise. A book about a prison in Thailand, does not make me have goose bumps, but it called me and I answered. The Thai-Burma border camps, towns, rebel army, talks to me. This is a story about faith, (Buddhism), and freedom. I read this book, in honor of the Chea family, who taught me much more, then the reverse. Survival comes in many forms, The Lizard Cage is about living, not just surviving. A message for the masses.
Quote: Shoes bereft of feet are capable of making terrible accusations. The people who scurried along the roads before the evening curfew knew ghosts were stepping into those slippers.
           " Because your breath is your teacher."
            The only way to end the war is to stop hating the enemy.
           ..a gesture both discreet and laden with promise.
The Fault in Our Stars is one of my favorites, for this moment. This is a story about children who die. Not a real beach read, but life altering. For it really is about living. Living with a time bomb of a disease strapped to your body. It is a love story, a comedy a must read for humans. We humans have lost so much about how to live, and how to say goodbye, how to love with our whole hearts. No words can help me explain to you this story. It is a sparkler on the fourth of July.
Quote:( I should say quotes, but you get the point!)( maybe I should just call them my highlighted stuff??)
            His every syllable flirted( that is just precious sweet!)
            So I wasn't lying exactly. I was choosing among truths!!!!
            "That is one thing about pain," Augustus said "It demands to be felt."
            " Not your fault , Hazel Grace. We're all just side effects, right?"
           " Oh I got over it darling. It took me a sleeve of Girl Scouts Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy!" ( Awesome line)
           ..like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. ( My Ward, I hate what he misses.)

Well, this has zapped me, in a good way. I love to share my stories, and am healed in the process.
February and books, this Sybil girl is happy.
Now isn't March just around the corner, this scarf is choking me!!!