#MatthewQuick

[fredhandbag]

We are the Light by Matthew Quick was highly recommended by Renee @itsbooktalk “Lucas Goodgame lives in Majestic, Pennsylvania - a quiet suburb that has been torn apart by a recent tragedy. Everyone sees Lucas as a hero - except him. He’s convinced his deceased wife visits him every night as an angel. And he writes letters to his Jungian analyst, Karl. When Eli, a young man the community has ostracized, sets up a tent in Lucas’s backyard, an unlikely alliance forms. And the two of them embark on a journey to help their neighbors heal.” Add this book to your list if you like a story of characters just trying to get better and heal from tragedy. It’s hard to describe the depth of emotion in this book. I’m getting a little weepy just thinking about it again. The story is told through letters from Lucas to his therapist, Karl. Lucas has blocked out memories of that tragic night in the theater and is trying to work out what to do. I love the way that Quick uses to bring people together. I kept pulling for Lucas to find his way. And I hope everyone has a Jill in their life. A great read from Quick. #wearethelight #matthewquick #bookofthemonth #contemporaryfiction #epistolarynovel #majestictheater #bookstagram #bookshelves #booknerd #readinglife #bookphotography #bookcommunity #bookblogger #sodacityreads #suspensebook #bookhaul #literarycrimefiction #homelibrary #thrillerbooks #domesticthriller #crimefiction #thriller #characterdrivenbooks #mysterythriller #bookrecs #botmtree https://www.instagram.com/p/CmMH-hcrRKA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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“Perdonami, Leonard Peacock”: la rabbia, la paura, la luce Cos’hanno in comune un adolescente in c... #LeonardPeacock #MatthewQuick https://agrpress.it/perdonami-leonard-peacock-la-rabbia-la-paura-la-luce/?feed_id=5164&_unique_id=663e2efb796dd

[beautifulbizarremagazine]

SUBMISSION SUNDAY // 🤘 "Rockstar"🎤by @matthewquick. Want *your art* to reach a wider audience? Be sure you post it on Instagram with the hashtag! Every Sunday, our Social Media Manager @elizah_leigh_art_writer will scroll through your tagged art and select her favourites. Then, she'll share them on Beautiful Bizarre Magazine’s Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr accounts. What a great way for our 1M+ social media followers to see what you’re up to! You will also be considered for inclusion in Beautiful Bizarre’s quarterly print magazine community feature, called “Join the Tribe”. ... posted on Instagram - https://instagr.am/p/CMGWCeFsvfK/

[everydayeveryday]

The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick

“Everything blurred over time.”

“Have you noticed that far too often the best people in the world lack power?"

“Why do most people fail to give each other the fairy tale?”

“I get sidetracked easily by interesting things, and for this reason, people often find it hard to converse with me, which is why I don’t talk very much to strangers and much prefer writing letters, in which there is room to record everything, unlike real-life conversations where you have to fight and fight to fit in your words and almost always lose.)”

“She said she needed me, and it was nice to be needed.”

“In the Dalai Lama’s book A Profound Mind, you wrote in the afterword that our lives are like the beam of light coming out of a movie projector, illuminating the screen, which is emptiness. I liked that. It was good—beautiful.”

“it was better to let some things alone. Words could be used as weapons that do too much damage”

“God doesn’t always use words to speak to us, Bartholomew,” he said as we waited for a red light to turn green. “Sometimes we simply get feelings. Hunches. Have you had any of those?”

“It is important that we understand just how truly all-pervasive suffering is.”

“People grieve for all sorts of reasons. It’s probably best not to compare or try to measure.”

“Flowers just grow, and when it is time, they shoot colors out of their stems and become beautiful.”

“I thought of a line from the Dalai Lama’s book A Profound Mind: “‘We should work toward cherishing the welfare of others to the point where we are unable to bear the sight of their misery.”

“but I knew he would say it would all be revealed in God’s time and not our time—that we should simply wait for God to speak to me, for me to start hearing His voice, that we had to be patient.”

“What else matters at the end of the day when we lie in bed alone with our thoughts? And isn’t it true, statistically speaking—regardless of whether we believe in luck or not—that good and bad must happen simultaneously all over the world?”

“For every bad thing that happens, a good thing happens too—and this was how the world stayed in harmony.”

“That in order for someone to win, someone else has to lose; and in order for someone to become rich, many others must stay poor; and in order for someone to be considered smart, many more people must be considered average or below average intelligence; and in order for someone to be considered extremely beautiful, there must be a plethora of regular-looking people and extremely ugly people as well; you can’t have good without bad, fast without slow, hot without cold, up without down, light without dark, round without flat, life without death—and so you can’t have lucky without unlucky either.”

“We don’t know anything. But we can choose how we respond to whatever comes our way. We have a choice always. Remember that!”

“Whenever something bad happens to us,” Mom said as she tucked me into my new bed, insisting that I needed some sleep after staying up all night, “something good happens—often to someone else. And that’s The Good Luck of Right Now. We must believe it. We must. We must. We must.”

“No. What happens to things is not important. Pray that your heart will be able to endure whatever happens to you in the future—your heart must continue to believe that the events in this world are not the be-all and end-all but simply transient unimportant variables. Beyond the everyday ins and outs of our lives, there is a greater purpose—a reason. Perhaps we don’t yet see or understand the reason—maybe our human minds are incapable of understanding fully—yet it all leads us to something greater nonetheless.”

“I found this Dalai Lama quote on the library Internet: “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”

“Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.”

“To new beginnings, however strange they may be,”

“Sentimental. As if it were a character flaw. Like it was horrible to feel. To admit that you missed things. To care. To love even.”

“And I wondered if faith were not a form of pretending.”

“But unfortunately, it takes a lot more than kindness to survive in this world.”

“Because life was always evolving and changing, and therefore, no matter how much we’d like to, we would never, ever have that moment again—even if we tried with all our might to re-create it, going so far as wearing the same exact clothes even, we would fail, because you cannot beat time; you can only enjoy it whenever possible, as it zooms by endlessly.”

[adamwatchesmovies]

All Together Now (2020)

Occasionally, All Together Now drifts into the needlessly quirky and sappy department but only briefly. With so many lousy movies who would've never been good enough for the theater have been getting the spotlight this year, this is a breath of fresh air.

Amber Appleton (Auli'i Cravalho) works hard at an old age home in the morning, teaches ESL class after school, also picks up shifts at a donut shop, and organizes the annual school variety show. When it's her turn to ask for help, she struggles. She and her mother, Becky (Justina Machado) have been sleeping in Becky’s school bus while they save up enough money for an apartment. When things go from bad to worse, Amber’s determination to stay strong might cost her dearly.

You fall for Cravalho's character right away. She’s bright and enthusiastic. Despite her situation, she remains hopeful, kind, and generous. You want her to make it out of this situation ok but over and over, the movie erodes your hopes. Being homeless on her own would be scary and sad enough. Somehow being with her mother feels worse. You can tell this is one of those mother-daughter relationships where mom has been a friend rather than a parent too many times and that Amber’s had to grow up fast to survive. That’s just the beginning. Life isn’t going to make things easy for Amber and you know she can only remain tough for so long. You just hope she’s in a better position than she is now when the hammer falls.

Thankfully, the young woman is surrounded by people who love her. Good for her, less good for the audience. Some of the friends add to the drama nicely, like Ty (Rhenzy Feliz). He cares deeply about her, possibly as more than a friend. Others either don’t add much to the story or feel unnecessary, like Joan (Carol Burnett), a sour resident of the old age home. Some others feel just a little bit too quirky for this kind of movie. Nothing about the story makes it inappropriate for teens or children but the bubble teacher, pun-obsessed friend, and others feel like an attempt to soften a drama that deals with real issues.

Some might say the film chickens out with its ending and they wouldn’t be wrong but it feels earned. Sometimes it isn’t critical for a story to reinvent the wheel and surprise you. Sometimes, you just want something nice, wholesome, and uplifting. That's what All Together Now aims to be, and succeeds at.

Based on the novel Sorta Like a Rockstar from Silver Linings Playbook author Matthew Quick, this is not in the same league. All Together Now benefits greatly from its strong performances from Justina Machado, Judy Reyes, and Auli’i Cravalho but the material they’re working with is quite good if a little soft during the end. This is the kind of movie the whole family can curl up around and enjoy. (October 17, 2020)

[bookishhollow]

Been listening to Every Exquisite Thing today because why read the books I planned on reading this month? I wanted an audiobook to listen to while I adulted so this was one of the ones I picked up. #bookstagram #booknerdigans #yalit #yalovin #everyexquisitething #matthewquick #reading #igreads #igbooks #ireadya https://www.instagram.com/p/BxDfXpBHzFM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dbcpq48w1ws3

[endofthelinx-blog]

Resenha: Perdão, Leonard Peacock

‘’Primeiro eles o ignoram, depois riem de você, em seguida lutam com você, e então você ganha.’’ 

Matthew Quick, autor de ‘O lado bom da vida’, tem um tato espetacular na maneira como consegue retratar as nuances dos comportamentos e peculiaridades de seus personagens, lhes atribuindo complexos verossímeis o suficiente para desenvolvermos uma afeição em particular por cada um deles. Com ‘Perdão, Leonard Peacock’, é claro, não foi diferente.

O livro é narrado em 1ª pessoa por Leonard Peacock, que logo nas primeiras linhas nos revela seu plano de matar um de seus colegas de classe e ex-melhor amigo até o final daquele dia, que descobrimos logo em seguida, ser também seu aniversário de 18 anos. Mas antes de finalmente entrar em ação, Leonard pretende presentear cinco das pessoas as quais ele julga terem sido pontos marcantes em sua vida. Com isso, partimos em sua jornada, e a cada encontro, passamos a compreender não só um pouco mais de sua personalidade como também a maneira como o relacionamento com os outros personagens interferiu em sua decisão.

Diferente do que eu havia imaginado, Leonard não inicia sua entrega de presentes a fim de culpá-los, mas sim como forma de camuflar um pedido desesperado de socorro para que alguém pudesse notá-lo e impedi-lo. Nesse ritmo, o personagem consegue sustentar a narração de temas delicados com um senso de humor e sarcasmo característicos de sua idade, fazendo reflexões bastantes sagazes que nos instigam a querer saber mais sobre ele.

O desenvolvimento do livro é conciso e bastante satisfatório. A trama nos oferece perguntas por meio da voz de Leonard e nos supre gradualmente com respostas em cenas narradas intensamente e diálogos bem construídos. Há ainda, a presença de cartas escritas sob a perspectiva de pessoas do futuro de Leonard, intercaladas entre os capítulos, que buscam lhe oferecer alguma esperança e suprir suas desilusões sobre a vida adulta, grande parte motivadas pelo fato de ter que viver sozinho na Filadélfia após a mudança de sua mãe para Nova York - onde construiu sua carreira como estilista.

A predileção por Leonard apresentada ao longo da história por histórias da Segunda Guerra Mundial e sua paixão pelos filmes de Humphrey Bogart – que compartilha, respectivamente, com o professor, Herman Silverman, e o amigo idoso, Walt, duas das pessoas as quais ele decide presentear – dá ao livro a personalidade que se espera de uma história narrada sob o ponto de vista de um adolescente.

O livro nos entrega um ápice emocionante e repleto de lições, retornando ao seu ritmo inicial logo em seguida, por fim, nos entregando um final bastante controverso e que pode causar certo desapontamento em alguns leitores, sendo um pouco confuso, porém bastante interpretativo. Queremos acreditar que as coisas para Leonard finalmente entrarão nos eixos e tentamos encontrar isso nas últimas linhas, que nos entregam o oposto da mudança que esperávamos, levando o personagem de volta aos mesmos problemas que culminaram seu colapso. Contudo, o sentimento desta vez é de superação, e o final de ‘Perdão Leonard Peacock’ nos faz crer que apesar de o cenário ao seu redor continuar o mesmo, Leonard, após tantos acontecimentos, está mais forte para encarar os problemas que lhe cercam.

No geral, ‘Perdão, Leonard Peacock’ cumpre com o que promete: É engraçado, enérgico, comovente e de tirar o fôlego, exatamente como a montanha russa da adolescência costuma ser.

[bibliobethblog]

Hello everyone and hope you’ve had a wonderful weekend! It’s #alphaauthorstack day started by the lovely @puellalegit and today I have a rather small stack to show you, authors whose surname begins with the letter Q: Down With The Shine - Kate Karyus Quinn A Very Special Goodbye - Matthew Quick Both books are on my TBR and I don’t have any real urgency to bump them up but if you’ve read and loved any of them I’d love to know so I can get excited about reading them! Otherwise, let’s have a chat in the comments! If you’ve done this challenge did you find Q as hard as I did?? 😅😂 #bookstagram #booklover #bookstagrammer #bookstagramchallenge #bookstack #tbrpile #bookstoread #downwiththeshine #katekaryusquinn #averyspecialgoodbye #matthewquick https://www.instagram.com/p/CQonjz6rvzX/?utm_medium=tumblr

[filmsnobreviews]

Check out our review of “All Together Now” from Netflix. An optimistic high schooler with musical aspirations must learn to accept help from her friends to overcome her personal hardships and fulfill her dreams. #movie #cinema #film #netflix #sortalikearockstar #auliicravalho #basedonabook #matthewquick #alltogethernow #bretthaley #netflix #netflixfilm #moviereview #filmsnobreviews https://www.instagram.com/p/CJANL9mlZMF/?igshid=1l3xwemuapj38

[mintreads]

The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick

“I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.”

-Matther Quick

[fredhandbag]

Big recommend from Renee @itsbooktalk - We Are The Light by Matthew Quick. What are you reading for #chikfilatuesday ? #wearethelight #matthewquick #bookofthemonth #contemporaryfiction #botmpicks #cfabushriverrd #bookstagram #bookshelves #booknerd #readinglife #bookphotography #bookcommunity #bookblogger #sodacityreads #suspensebook #bookhaul #literarycrimefiction #homelibrary #thrillerbooks #domesticthriller #crimefiction #thriller #characterdrivenbooks #mysterythriller #bookrecs (at Chick-fil-A) https://www.instagram.com/p/CljTM-Krmcu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thebookbrontosaurus]

Q: What was the last book to make you cry?⁣ ⁣ 🦕 Kayla - “Mine was ‘Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock’. I loved this story and related to the story so much, specifically to Leonard’s relationship with his mother. Reading this book gave me all the feels!”⁣ ⁣ 🦖 Alex - “Hazel and Augustus make me smile every time I read ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ but that ending wrecks me. I always end up crying.”⁣ @johngreenwritesbooks .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ #QandA #forgivemeleonardpeacock #matthewquick #thefaultinourstars #tfios #johngreen #thebookbrontosaurus #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booklover #books #booknerd #yabooks #yabookstagram #yabook #yabookseries #reading #yalit #bookpile #bibliophile #booklife #readingtime #readersofinstagram #goodreads (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBeIoP2Asdt/?igshid=1a6sqld5fzw6b

[beautifulbizarremagazine]

Do you plan to have a clear-out before the new year? Witty painting by @matthewquick - "Multi-tasking"...⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ posted on Instagram - https://ift.tt/2ParlQR

[aquiloquevi]

Uma boa prática. ☺️ #aquiloquevi #postdiario #fiqueemcasa #stayhome #stayhomestaysafe #matthewquick (em Rio de Janeiro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAbwvtqDo33/?igshid=5d9wsqirf3r7

[stalkpub-blog]

Painting by @matthewquick ・・・ The Great Cover Up ⁠ Talk about double standards. In their great and unmatched wisdom, Facebook once blocked my painting Domestic Goddess because it shows a stone nipple. Yet the original 300 year old sculpture on which the painting is based, Giuseppe Mazzuoli’s A Nereid, is in Washington’s National Gallery of Art and has been seen by hundreds of thousands of visitors. And then there’s my painting Every Precaution, which also features a nipple that Facebook is just fine with. Because it’s male. Does anyone else think this is all just a bit odd? What’s the… Painting by matthewquick ・・・ The Great Cover Up ⁠ Talk about double standards. In their great and unmatched wisdom, Facebook once blocked my painting Domestic Goddess because it shows a stone nipple. Yet the original 300 year old sculpture on which the painting is based, Giuseppe Mazzuoli’s A Nereid, is in Washington’s National Gallery of Art and has been seen by hundreds of thousands of visitors. And then there’s my painting Every Precaution, which also features a nipple that Facebook is just fine with. Because it’s male. Does anyone else think this is all just a bit odd? What’s the standard? Moreover, what’s the point? So, to meet the social mores of the Facebook millennium, in this painting I clothed William Henry Rinehart’s water nymph. Albeit with not much. Like the painting itself, this whole episode reveals more than it shows. Although my new exhibition has now finished, you can still see all my new paintings nandahobbs⁠ ⁠------------------------------------------ #matthewquick #hifructose #australianart #newcontemporary #censorship #fubiz #myartisreal #frieze_magazine #artist_features #designiskinky #painting #freethenipple Painting by @matthewquick ・・・ The Great Cover Up ⁠ Talk about double standards. In their great and unmatched wisdom, Facebook once blocked my painting Domestic Goddess because it shows a stone nipple. Yet the original 300 year old sculpture on which the painting is based, Giuseppe Mazzuoli’s A Nereid, is in Washington’s National Gallery of Art and has been seen by hundreds of thousands of visitors. And then there’s my painting Every Precaution, which also features a nipple that Facebook is just fine with. Because it’s male. Does anyone else think this is all just a bit odd? What’s the…

[books-are-my-escape]

Currently rereading #forgivemeleonardpeacock #matthewquick #read #books #kindle https://www.instagram.com/p/B4KX-74AWAE-kB2PT4M7qbzY5D0DHCkzqihOkQ0/?igshid=11bf9ux9a14o4