#for one more day

[huxloween]

One more day!!

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[litandlifequotes]

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

For One More Day by Mitch Albom

[orchid-baby]

I am in New York

[typewriter-worries]

what seems like forever ago, @geryone so kindly tagged me and asked me to share nine book recommendations. after combing through some of my recent reads, here are some of my favorites:

My short little summaries and thoughts are listed under the cut:

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room is about a young man in David and his summer romance with another young man named Giovanni. Through the lens of love and heartbreak, David goes through a journey of identity.

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk - We follow our narrator, for now we can call him Joe, as he begins a very unconventional friendship with a man named Tyler. Men fight, they also bite and many a problems arise.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini- Historical fiction novel that is set agains the backdrop of many events from the fall of Afghanistan's monarchy to the rise of the Taliban regime. I don't think I've cried harder reading a book so that's my own weird way of saying I can't recommend it enough.

For One More Day by Mitch Albom- Little read with a lot of heart. Fictional baseball player has the chance to spend one more day with his late mother, who he misses more than he ever thought he would. Another book that kept me crying into the middle of the night.

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio - I feel like if you like dark academia; this is an essential. A group of Shakespearean acting students at the fictional Dellecher Shakespeare conservatory get wrapped in a murder and it's an ongoing case of whodunit.

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood - A delicate look into the mundane crafted through the lens of grief, loss and heartache. We follow the life of George, a middle-aged gay man mourning the loss of his partner. Like Giovanni's Room, I think it's a staple of queer literature.

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy - A heartbreaking memoir that's sprinkled with the well timed moment of comedy. We learn about Jennette McCurdy's tumultuous relationship with acting, the abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother, and her own way of working towards healing.

Promises of Gold by José Olivarez - If prose isn't your thing; this might be! Promises of Gold is a poetry collection in which Olivarez family, identity, love and quarantine. One of my personal favorites is Regret or My Dad Says Love

A Short History of the Girl Next Door by Jared Reck - A story about first love that in ends heartbreak in more ways that one. It's first person and it's YA, two things I normally never read, but it's just so so good. Forget crying into the middle of the night, this had me crying well into morning

no pressure tagging: @firstfullmoon and @soracities if you have anything you want to recommend <3

[noora193]

عندما نظرت الى تعابير وجهها، رأيت ذلك الاهتمام الهائل القديم قدم الازل، ذلك الاهتمام الذي لا شك فيه. في ذلك الوقت فقط ادركتُ انه حين تنظر الى امك، فإنك ترى الحب النقي الوحيد الذي يمكن ان تصادفه في حياتك.

ليومٍ آخر / ميتش ألبوم

[rains-of-words]

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Mitch Albom, For One More Day

[obstinaterixatrix]

not trying to make an explanation or excuse for how media & attention cycles, just processing, but it does make sense the oceangate thing is getting more attention seeing as it’s tragedy and spectacle and there’s something of interest to dig into, the logistics and safety and engineering aspects, the implications for fallout, etc, whereas the intentional (or even just. indifference to?) mass death of vulnerable people is just. depressing. it’s really depressing. despite having tragic elements, the oceangate thing is something that can be brought up in casual conversation and dissected in a way that doesn’t kick the participants into the gaping maw of despair. man. I do hope there’s… some sort of consequence. some sort of response that acknowledges and prevents tragedy on a larger scale. that’s so many people.

[allo-frouto]

can u open the messages?

Tomorrow is the day!

[kindredwisteria]

"When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you even at unlikely times."

- from the book For One More Day by Mitch Albom

[haley-hay-hay]

“But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.”

Mitch Albom, For One More Day

[hinamie]

trick or treat!

[lit-crits]

(2007) For One More Day, Mitch Albom. 23/09/2024

First time reading? Yes

Rating: 6.5/10

Favourite quote: "So," she said, moving away, "now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted." (The way I SOBBED AT THIS)

Another book from Albom, didn't read this one as a teen but I think my mam did and must have told me about it because I vaguely remembered the plot. This one hit A Lot harder than "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" in terms of emotional response to the plot and the characters. Chick/Charley is an ASSHOLE, I know we are supposed to feel sorry for him by the end of the book because he lays his soul bare and he tried to off himself but he was nothing but awful to his endlessly loving mam and chose her over his borderline evil dad throughout his entire life, and was shitty towards his wife too. Also, Leonard (Chick's dad) is a horrible horrible horrible man. He makes Chick pick between being a mommy's boy or a daddy's boy when he is a child (he picks his dad), he instils his own dreams and ambitions of being a baseball star into his son to the point where Chick lies & abandons his elderly mam on her birthday to go to a baseball game for "networking", he cheats on his wife to the point of having a whole other family, he chooses this 2nd family over his 1st and THEN abandons his 2nd family!!!! Posey (Chick's mam) is a wonderful woman, who went through so much being a divorced single mam to 2 kids. I know she literally isn't real but god DAMN she did not deserve the shit the men in her life put her through!!

[chez-cinnamon]

What if Pomni seeks out comfort from Kinger bc of the last episode?? Part 2 !!

( Page 1 ) (Page 3)

GRRRRRRR THEY MEAN EVERYTHING TO MEEEEE

Also hc that Kinger glowing is something he can control, like his own little cartoon physics gimmick. He mainly uses it for Pomni comfort purposes, like a warm nightlight!!

[malenjoyer]

WE'RE SO BACK

[spiribia]

once you hit adulthood a day will come when you’re suddenly like VEGETABLES 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 and it never goes away

[noora193]

In case of praying for something, Albom once said that someone wrote the word “Please” on a tree trunk after asking for his need. Because trees spend all day looking up at god.