Picked this up in the Faro airport. 

Picked this up in the Faro airport. 



currently reading

currently reading



This book is so good. 

This book is so good. 



School is starting back up but I still want to read just to read. My friend lent me this book that I am hoping to read soon. 

School is starting back up but I still want to read just to read. My friend lent me this book that I am hoping to read soon. 



After a crazy two weeks of training, I finally finished my last summer book yesterday. Here’s a list of all the books I read since May (I am such a scholar).

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"Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren’s will be. But we learn to live in that love." — Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer



"She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum. She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her." — Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer







I’ve just started reading The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas today and it’s good, but it seems unnecessarily vulgar, at least to me (they say cunt a lot…)

I’ve just started reading The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas today and it’s good, but it seems unnecessarily vulgar, at least to me (they say cunt a lot…)



All of us are better when we’re loved.

All of us are better when we’re loved.



"Here’s a funny thing. You go into the future, and afterwards, you think, Well, I know about that now. But like I said before: if you don’t know how something feels, then you don’t know anything. The future looked terrible when I went there before. But once I was on the inside of it, it really wasn’t so bad." — Slam Nick Hornby





I LUV GOODWILL. 
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas and The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis for $6.00.

I LUV GOODWILL. 

The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas and The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis for $6.00.



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cherry pye



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I'm Ryan. I study Biology and work with Student Housing and the Centre for International Programs at the University of Guelph.

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