#Sharon Guskin

[kadampalife]

Seven Limbs ~ how a Brooklyn-based composer is using art as an offering

By Clare Morin There are moments in our meditation practice where we get a glimpse of our mind’s potential. Our otherwise incessant mental chatter ceases for a while and we meet our capacity for radiant, soaring peace. We meet our Buddha nature. There is a moment in Brooklyn-based composer Douglas J. Cuomo’s recent album and performance project, Seven Limbs, that captures this moment of radiant…

[oswlld]

ive decided recently that im making myself commit to a full reading year for 2023. i really like what i have going on with my watchlist and plan to apply a similar system for my tbr. so far, i think i can manage one book and one collection of short stories/poem a month, ✨HOWEVER✨ i have no idea where i want to start.

i had a tendency to juggle two/three books at one time, which ended up with me having more dnfs than completed ones. not that anything i picked was particularly bad or boring, but having worked in publishing (esp in a position that led to severe burnout) made me feel like it was a chore when it should have been a source of comfort or enjoyment.

wanna get back into that without waiting for The Book to reel me in, yk?

in order to figure out what i want to read this year, i’ve decided to sample my nightstand and take it from there. i have 21 books that i have to cut down to 11 by the end of the month. got no real barometer for how many pages to start, but sufficient enough for me to really get a vibe before i move on. 

i will keep the sample list updated throughout the month and see where this goes. tbh, i hope this system sticks!

READ || PASS - The Starless Sea, Erin Morganstern ON THE FENCE? || PASS - Kaikeyi, Vaishnavi Patel READ || PASS - The King of Infinite Space, Lyndsay Faye READ || PASS - Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead READ || PASS - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid ON THE FENCE? || PASS - Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner READ || PASS - Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr (a dnf im picking up again) READ || PASS - Scythe, Neal Shusterman READ || PASS - The Gravity of Us, Phil Stamper READ || PASS - The Regional Office is Under Attack!, Manuel Gonzales READ || PASS - Superminds, Thomas W. Malone READ || PASS - Circe, Madeline Miller ON THE FENCE? || PASS - Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo (a dnf im picking up again) ON THE FENCE? || PASS - I'll Give You the Sun, Jandy Nelson READ || PASS - Babel, R. F. Kuang READ || PASS - The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemisin READ || PASS - Illuminae, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (a dnf im picking up again) READ || PASS - Originals, Adam Grant READ || PASS - The Forgetting Time, Sharon Guskin READ || PASS - The Atlas Six, Olivie Blake (a dnf im picking up again)

NOTE: i have an idea what will be on my shortlist for the short stories/poems, but i wont be tracking it as rigorously as the above; theres just no way i can turn off that part of my brain that wants to juggle stories, so this is my solution.

[anonymous-dentist]

Right now, I'm reading The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin! It's a multi-POV mystery/psychological fiction story about a kid who remembers his past life, told by his single mom and the aging psychologist with aphasia who dedicated his life to studying kids with reincarnation memories.

The marketing is a little misleading because it only talks about the kid, so I thought it'd be solely from his POV, but it's from his mom's and the psychologist's instead. The prose has a lot of sensory details though, and the way these points of view connect and play against each other makes it really compelling. I'm excited to finish it

Interesting! If my store has it, I’ll look at it

[mostlyy-happyy]

Braucht nicht jeder Mensch etwas, das ihm durch den Tag hilft?

Noah will nach Hause von Sharon Guskin

[bookreasons]

The Reason We've Already Met

The Reason We’ve Already Met

One of the best icebreaker questions is the one about choosing a superpower. Personally, I am Team Control Things With My Mind. Having ESP, or telekinesis, or the ability to speak to ghosts-those are some quality characteristics to have if you want to stand out at the next Justice League meeting. There is one mystical phenomenon, though, that’s so common everyone experiences it at one time or…

[sapphiresandstars]

3rd time lucky...

I’ve been trying to update this diary and tried a few times on my phone... but if I start doing something else or someone calls me, my post disappears!

We are having some problems with our internet today. I wonder what’s happened. This really brings back awful memories of exclusion.

After reading The Handmaid’s Tale, I decided to watch the show. My friend spoke very highly of it. The book, to me, was monotonous in the sense that there was no “big stressful event” for us to have been worked up toward. I realize that in tv adaptations such an event is necessary. Once I felt that this was happening I lost interest in the series. My nerves can’t handle the stress even if it isn’t real stress.

This is what I’ve started reading... The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin. I can already tell it isn’t my kind of thing.

[warningtothecurious]

SHARE YOUR SELF CARE!

i was tagged by @kayascodelorio :))))

🌿 favourite comfort food: Any type of bread, or pasta..

🌼 favourite alcohol (or hot drink!): Tea! I love herbal teas and regular tea but if I had to pick one I would say ginger tea. 

🌷 favourite relaxing activity: Having a bath, being amongst nature, listening to music.

🌻 favourite calming scent: Vanilla

🌺 favourite relaxing (or uplifting) song: Oh there are so many! Toothpaste Kisses by The Maccabees, Turn To Dust by Wold Alice, Get Up and Go by Broadcast 2000 the list goes on..

🍄 favourite book to get lost in: I read The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin recently and it was great. 

💐 favourite chill-out TV show: Brooklyn Nine Nine 

🌹 the best advice you’ve ever had:  Take things one day at a time and don’t let the fear of falling behind stop you because life isn’t a race.

i’m tagging @ainosgarden @samsfenders @ravenclawwit @wongkarwine @mollyfaraday @moviebee @thisfeebleheart  @bengiyo @solongseeyou

[surejaya]

The Forgetting Time

Download : The Forgetting Time More Book at: Zaqist Book

The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin

“What if what you did mattered more because life happened again and again, consequences unfolding across decades and continents?…A relentlessly paced page-turner and a profound meditation on the meaning of life.” ―Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan Train What happens to us after we die? What happens before we are born? At once a riveting mystery and a testament to the profound connection between a child and parent, The Forgetting Time will lead you to reevaluate everything you believe… What would you do if your four-year-old son claimed he had lived another life and that he wants to go back to it? That he wants his other mother? Single mom Janie is trying to figure out what is going on with her beloved son Noah. Noah has never been ordinary. He loves to make up stories, and he is constantly surprising her with random trivia someone his age has no right knowing. She always chalked it up to the fact that Noah was precocious―mature beyond his years. But Noah’s eccentricities are starting to become worrisome. One afternoon, Noah’s preschool teacher calls Janie: Noah has been talking about shooting guns and being held under water until he can’t breathe. Suddenly, Janie can’t pretend anymore. The school orders him to get a psychiatric evaluation. And life as she knows it stops for herself and her darling boy. For Jerome Anderson, life as he knows it has already stopped. Diagnosed with aphasia, his first thought as he approaches the end of his life is, I’m not finished yet. Once an academic star, a graduate of Yale and Harvard, a professor of psychology, he threw everything away to pursue an obsession: the stories of children who remembered past lives. Anderson became the laughing stock of his peers, but he never stopped believing that there was something beyond what anyone could see or comprehend. He spent his life searching for a case that would finally prove it. And with Noah, he thinks he may have found it. Soon, Noah, Janie, and Anderson will find themselves knocking on the door of a mother whose son has been missing for eight years. When that door opens, all of their questions will be answered. Gorgeously written and fearlessly provocative, Sharon Guskin’s debut explores the lengths we will go for our children. It examines what we regret in the end of our lives and hope for in the beginning, and everything in between.

Download : The Forgetting Time More Book at: Zaqist Book

[chloeintheoffice-blog]

I THINK I HAVE A PROBLEM (Book Shopping Volume IV)

...but all these are from a charity shop, so it’s OKAY, right?!

I’ll just jump in and tell you what I got!

1. Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee

Goodreads rating: 3.31

Number of pages: 278

Although this book doesn’t have the best rating, I’ve been interested in reading it for a while now. I wouldn’t have hunted it out, but this hardback was in perfect condition and I couldn’t resist.

Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch--"Scout"--returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt.

2. Asking For It by Louise O’Neill

Goodreads rating: 4.03

Number of pages: 346

I added this to the list of books I wanted to read back in July and had been waiting for a good deal on it. So when I saw the perfect condition hardback, I jumped for it.

It's the beginning of the summer in a small town in Ireland. Emma O'Donovan is eighteen years old, beautiful, happy, confident. One night, there's a party. Everyone is there. All eyes are on Emma. The next morning, she wakes on the front porch of her house. She can't remember what happened, she doesn't know how she got there. She doesn't know why she's in pain. But everyone else does. Photographs taken at the party show, in explicit detail, what happened to Emma that night.

3. The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin

Goodreads rating: 3.79

Number of pages: 356

I knew nothing about this book but it looks really interesting!

Single mom Janie is trying to figure out what is going on with her beloved son Noah. Noah has never been ordinary. He loves to make up stories, and he is constantly surprising her with random trivia someone his age has no right knowing. She always chalked it up to the fact that Noah was precocious―mature beyond his years. But Noah’s eccentricities are starting to become worrisome. One afternoon, Noah’s preschool teacher calls Janie: Noah has been talking about shooting guns and being held under water until he can’t breathe. Suddenly, Janie can’t pretend anymore. The school orders him to get a psychiatric evaluation. And life as she knows it stops for herself and her darling boy.

4&5. Reflected In You & Entwined With You by Sylvia Day

Goodreads rating: 4.33 & 4.19

Number of pages: 338 & 356 

These books are the second and third books in the Crossfire series. I read Bared to You (number one) while on holiday so when I saw that the other two books were there at an extremely cheap price, I got them.

I won’t talk too much about the synopsis of these as they are not the first in the series, but if you like Fifty Shades, you’ll like these.

That’s the end of my shopping for now, but I’m sure I’ll be back soon.

[uyanisyayinevi]

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[bibookbabe]

Books I read in 2017

(books with an asterisk are ones I especially liked. I love talking about books, so come chat with me if you want deeper opinions on any of the books)

*My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman

An Alter in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor

The Field by Lynn McTaggart

Lad of Lima (I didn't make note of the author for some reason, and it's a very old book that I ended up getting rid of)

Covering: the hidden assault on our civil rights by Kenji Yoshino

*Make Your Creative Dreams Real by SARK

How to be Here by Rob Bell

The Secret Horses of Briar Hill by Megan Shepherd

*Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhonda Jansen (if you happen to come from a Mennonite background, as I do, you must read this. Absolutely hilarious and relatable)

*The Gender Creative Child by Diana Ehrensaft

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin

My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

The Curated Closet by Anuschka Rees

Simple Matters by Erin Boyle

*Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn

*The Raven Cycle series by Maggie Steifvater (yes, I read them again this year)

The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine N. Aron

Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley

The More of Less by Joshua Becker (if you're looking for a good minimalism book, this is not it, imo. I liked simple Matters much better)

Moving On by Sarah Ban Breathnach

You Know Me Well by David Levithan and Nina LaCour

The Scavenger's Manifesto by Anneli Rufus and Kristan Lawson

*Around the House and in the Garden by Dominique Browning

*Crossing to Avalon by Jean Shinoda Bolen

The Great Green Okayness by Rachel Awes

Spiritual Housecleaning by Kathryn L. Robyn

*Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg (if you're a writer, I highly recommend Natalie's books on writing!)

*Wild Mind by Natalie Goldberg

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

Thunder and Lightening by Natalie Goldberg

The Universe Has Your Back by Gabrielle Bernstein

The End of Absence by Michael Harris

The Wishing Year by Noelle Oxenhandler

White Hot Truth by Danielle Laporte

Clear Home, Clear Heart by Jean Haner

The Desire Map by Danielle Laporte

*Steering by Starlight by Martha Beck

Solitude: in pursuit of a singular life in a crowded world by Michael Harris

*Romancing the Ordinary by Sarah Ban Breathnach (a long time comfort book for me. I've read it many times)

*Good Omens by Terry Pratchet and Neil Gaiman

*Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

*Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach

*The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy (I've read this book many, many times, and I always envy people who are reading it for the the first time)

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Matilda by Roald Dahl (I listened to the audible version read by Kate Winslet and she was wonderful)

Save the Date by Mary Kay Andrews (I don't know why I keep trying to read these kinds of books. I never like them. All I can say for this one is that I hated it less than usual)

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

*The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin

[verdommetoch]

Maak eens een lijstje van je favoriete boeken of boeken die jij aanraad alsjeblieft!!

De opwindvogelkronieken ~ Haruki Murakami De Kleurloze Tsukuru Tazai en zijn pelgrimsjaren ~ Haruki MurakamiVeronika besluit te sterven ~ Paulo CoelhoUp ~ Myrthe van der MeerLily en de octopus ~ Steven RowleyThe Forgetting Time ~ Sharon Guskin

Ik heb nog maar 2 boeken van Haruki Murakami gelezen, maar ik gok dat ze allemaal even fantastisch zijn. Dus ik raad al zijn boeken aan!!

[greenbeansinamug]

oh fuck i’m sorry @leahtea i completely forgot :(

Put your playlist on shuffle and name the first four songs:

You Need To Calm Down - @taylorswift

The Show Must Go On - Queen

Your Side Of The Bed - Loote

Top Of The World - Zayde Wølf

Grab the nearest book, turn to page 23, line 27:

The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin (i bought it several days ago haha)

“Did he study this in med school?“

Ever had as poem or song wrote about you?

Nah

When was the last time you played air guitar?

Yesterday, also in the bedroom in my dorm at summer school, to Crazy Little Thing Called Love.

Celebrity crushes:

Jodie Whittaker, Jenna Coleman, Brie Larson, Phillipa Soo, Alex Kingston, Cate Blanchett, Michelle Gomez

Sounds I hate/love

Love: rain, purring

Hate: boys talking loudly

Do you drive and have you ever crashed a car?

i’m Y O U N G  WHAT DO YOU THINK

Last book you read:

Good Omens: the script book

Do you believe in ghosts?

no

Do you believe in aliens?

there is a possibility

Do you like the smell of gasoline?

sometimes

Last movie you saw:

Movie? Ocean’s 8 (BITCH IM GAYYYYY)

Do you have an obsession right now?

DW, Good Omens, Marvel, maybe some other’s i’ve forgotten.

Do you hold grudges?

um yes

tagging: @daisychainsandsunrays @claire-de-macarune @pharaoh-of-time-and-space @raggedywhittaker

Tag me meme!

thanks for tagging me @the-rainbow-fox-13 now that I have been officially called out as your stan~

Put your playlist on shuffle and name the first four songs

Sunlight by Hozier, Estive by Vanguart, Polaroid by Imagine Dragons (nostalgia omg) and Beautiful Land by Nina Simone

Grab the nearest book, turn to page 23, line 27

hummmm I’m gonna grab the closest one I have in english which is:

E. Aster Bunnymund and the Warrior Eggs at the Earth’s Core (William Joyce)

“Petter closed his eyes and thought his very hardest. When he opened them, instead of a box in his hands, there was a pair of special shoes that would allow him to glide over water”

Ever had a song or poem wrote about you?

Yes! A poem by one of my friends when we first started high school, spoiler: she said I was pretty in it and then I drew her a telescope  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

When was the last time you played air guitar?

awwww like 2 weeks ago when I was at my friend’s car I think?

Celebrity Crushes?

So many, dear god. The obvious ones first: Mandip Gill and Jodie Whittaker (duh) ok then we have Amandla Stenberg, Brie Larson, Lupita Nyong’o (who doesn’t), Jasmine Cephas Jones and many more

Sounds I hate/love

Hate: many sounds due to my noise sensitivity but honorable mentions are microphone static, chainsaw and loud dubstep music

Love: cats purring, bass chords and my friends singing (the ones that sing well of course hahah)

Do you drive and have you ever crashed a car?

Noooo, I’m gonna try and get my license soon so watch out roads!

Last book you read

that I finished: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Do you believe in ghosts?

naaaaah

Do you believe in aliens?

YES THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING OUT THERE EVEN IF THEY ARE JUST SLIMEY CELLS OR SOMETHING

Do you like the smell of gasoline?

No, it gives me headaches

Last movie you saw

Nightmare Before Christmas cause my friend had never seen it before! Lovely as always

Do you have an obsession right now?

THASMIN and good omens but mainly thasmin/doctor who stuff

Do you hold grudges?

I joke that I do but I don’t really. Some people I keep in mind what happened/what they did but not really grudges

I dunno if y’all have been tagged before but here ya go: @not-mandip @sapphichymns @infinitegenderlessmess @jenzpander @hellynz 

[rincondejoss]

Book Calendar Recommendation May

Book Calendar Recommendation May

Y el calendario se va volando y ya se acabó mayo.

And the calendar has gone flying and we are at the end of may.

The Road To Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain by Bill Bryson

The Longest Night by Andria Williams

The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin

The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

Behold The Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

The Wicked Boy: The…

[arsonistintraining]

Book review: The Forgetting Time, by Sharon Guskin

Book cover from Goodreads

Why were we all hoarding love, stockpiling it, when it was all around us, moving in and out of us like the air, if only we could feel it?

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[readingrage]

Book #29 in 2017

Noah wants to go home. A seemingly easy request from most four year olds. But as Noah's single-mother, Janie, knows, nothing with Noah is ever easy. One day the pre-school office calls and says Janie needs to come in to talk about Noah, and no, not later, now - and life as she knows it stops. For Jerome Anderson, life as he knows it has stopped. A deadly diagnosis has made him realize he is approaching the end of his life. His first thought - I'm not finished yet. Once a shining young star in academia, a graduate of Yale and Harvard, a professor of psychology, he threw it all away because of an obsession. Anderson became the laughing stock of his peers, but he didn't care - something had to be going on beyond what anyone could see or comprehend. He spent his life searching for that something else. And with Noah, he thinks he's found it. Soon Noah, Janie and Anderson will find themselves knocking on the door of a mother whose son has been missing for eight years - and when that door opens, all of their questions will be answered. Taken from Goodreads.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️☆☆☆

Title: The Forgetting Time

Author: Sharon Guskin

Genre: Fiction, Mystery