#The Book of Two Ways

[not-the-aesthete]

“ ‘I love her. I love her to death.’ ‘You love her through death,’ I correct gently. ‘You don't stop loving someone just because they're not physically with you.’ ”

Jodi Picoult, The Book of Two Ways ( Ballatine, 2020 )

[aspiringwriter22]

The Book of Two Ways - Jodi Picoult | A Book Review

The Book of Two Ways - Jodi Picoult | A Book Review #BookReview #BookBlogger #AdultFiction

Title: The Book of Two Ways Author: Jodi Picoult Genre: Adult Fiction About the book: It’s a standalone that revolves around Dawn Edelstein who is on a plane when it crash lands. Instead of thinking about her husband Brian, her thoughts are of a man she last saw 15 years ago. She survives and is faced with a choice: fly home to Boston to be with her family or return to Egypt and reconnect with…

[proceduralbob]

There are five things we need to say to people we love before they die…: I forgive you. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. Goodbye.

The Book of Two Ways, Jodi Picoult

[wizardnamensalex]

You ever start reading a book and just know it’s going to destroy you? Yeah, me neither

[riverofempathy]

Do it do it do it

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[litandlifequotes]

There is something bleak and barren about a world that is missing the person who knows you best.

The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Piccoult

[chickenndogg]

This was Bill’s symbols by the way lol, type in ‘oroborous’

It reads ‘Chonky boi’

[jesquotes]

"How many relationships have you ended?" I asked.

"All of them. Because then I can't be left behind."

[isawitbefore]

When you're an artist, it's because there's something inside you that you can't keep from spilling out. Maybe it comes in the form of sentences, or a grand jete, or a stroke of a paintbrush. The end result can be a million different things. But the seed, it's always the same. It's the emotion there isn't a word for. The feeling that's too big for your body. To show someone your soul, you have to bleed. People who are comfortable - people who are content - they don't create art.

Jodi Picoult, the book of two ways

[egophiliac]

do skully have pokemon?

Pumpkaboo is the obvious one, but y'know, sometimes the obvious one is the right one! (we'll say SUPER SIZE Pumpkaboo, just for fun. big pumpkin for big skeleton boy.) and another person actually also suggested Greavard, which I somehow hadn't considered, but feels so perfect that I feel like I should have. dangit.

(they can also have little Nightmare Suit costumes :D)

[stil-lindigo]

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[uwlmvac]

Bill Gresens’ Archaeology Book Review for March 2023

The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult (four trowels) 

Dawn McDowell’s dreams of becoming an Egyptologist crash when tragedy strikes and her life takes a dramatic turn.  Fifteen years later she struggles to return to that past life and a past love.

Read the entire review at: https://www.uwlax.edu/mvac/book-reviews/?review=251550

[benevolenterrancy]

~ Extremely Unwilling Magical Protagonists Attempt To Outrun The Plot And Not Fucking Die ~

(@takofukkatsumi this tag is from a while ago but it hasn't left my brain -- L-Space got very weird all of a sudden)

[halloweenvalentine1997]

We sat on the banks of the Seine and looked in its depths. We lay on our backs and pushed the clouds away with our imaginations until we could see nothing but blue, blue that hurt, blue that became the black of the universe. “What are you looking for?”, you asked, and I said, “I’ll know when I see it.” We tried to find my blue in the pottery sold by a Turkish man in a street market; in a handful of bursting berries. We stopped in front of a Chinese restaurant with a tank full of live fish and stared at their rainbow scales. We brushed our fingertips over the heads of pansies in window displays, and counted the navy knapsacks of schoolchildren in uniforms. We went back to the studio, finally, and you mixed paint: aqua and cerulean, indigo, sapphire. You took your brush and stroked them in stripes on the back of my hand, up the inside of my arm. We watched the twilight, all the blues of night being born, and you turned me into art. It was when you moved in me, when you cried out my name, that I found the color I’d been searching for. That blistering blue of your eyes. I’ve been looking for it ever since.

- from The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult

[ffcrazy15]

There's this way of doing female-ness in Christianity that I call "pastel flower journal Christianity." I've got nothing against pastel flower journals per se, but for some reason people believe it's the end all and be all of female spirituality, and I think it's a real disservice towards young Christian women.

One of these days I'd like to start a prayer-and-reading group or something for young women, but there would be no floral themes or over-focus on how "God thinks you're beautiful even if the world doesn't" (a true statement, but it's wayyyyy too often the focus in women's spiritual reading). Instead we would be reading:

Seneca's Letters from a Stoic

Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning

Sheed's A Map of Life

Portions of Pieper's book on leisure

Kreeft's Three Philosophies of Life

Guardini's The Lord (or something similar)

Therese's Story of a Soul

and some select portions of the Nicomachean Ethics.

(Also they're all getting the porn talk. I don't know why we give the porn talk to young men but not young women. There's this idea that women don't use porn and they only need the talk about "guarding their heart." Bullshit. There's porn on the YA shelves of Barnes and Nobles and before that there were bodice rippers. Young women need the porn talk too.)

Every young woman needs to be getting a basic grounding in virtue ethics, logic, natural law, scholastic philosophy and Biblical hermeneutics if they're going to get by in today's spiritual landscape. Enough faffery and emotionalism in young women's spiritual education! Give them real food to chew on, not pasty sentimentalism!

[ashleyloob]

I randomly got dragged to Mormon church and met the illustrator for A Series of Unfortunate Events who is apparently a bishop at the church, and now we are Instagram mutuals. today was so bizarre