2016-03-19

Keys & Humanity
March 16th 2016
Something Different, again




There are things that we connect with “power” of some sorts. Now, what do you think when you think the words elevator and rich? See, I imagine a penthouse, like in movies if you will, where you need a key or keycard to access certain areas. And I had never thought that I wanted to access a floor like that, until I got the chance that is.
            So there I was in the elevator, taking the trash out from a cafĂ© – fancy right - , and they gave me a key and told me what to do. The feeling though, of seeing an ordinary row of buttons and a keyhole in an elevator, knowing I had the key! It made me feel so good, for a reason or another. It’s not like it was a penthouse or anything, it was the garage where I could sort the trash, but still!

            So it got me thinking, what other ordinary things do I associate with power and/or fancy living. And well, I haven’t come up with anything, yet, but I still find it peculiar. I mean a key and lock is quite a simple thing, and yet I found it to be this magnificent thing. So what does this tell about humanity, or maybe it’s just me…

Any ideas or comments? Do tell. My Tumblr
Wishing you the best,
Sally

2016-03-12

TBR



Trying to get those TBR piles down :) So these are books I own but haven't read yet...
(This was the list for 2016, and I have a new one for 2017!)

Start of the year: 26+5 + 27 classics + 13 from siblings
                > Classicy/award winner
                 Got before this year (the ones I want to get to zero by the end of the year)

End of the year: 2 + 5 classics + 2 from siblings

TBR:
   29. My True Love Gave to Me
   48. Frost Like Night
1. Fire Spell
(2.   Sisters Red 1-3)
5.    Heir of Fire
6.    Days of Blood and Starlight
7.   Pennyroyal
8.   Teemestarin kirja
9.   A Curse Dark as Gold
10. Magic Study
11.Fire Study
12.  All the Bright Places
13. River Secrets
 14. Forest Born
(15. False)
17.  The Heir
18. Miss Mayhem
19.  Snow Like Ashes
20. An Ember in the Ashes
(21.  The Books of Ember 1-4
25. In the Afterlight
26. The Knife of Never Letting Go
27. Lips Touch
(28. Emma)
30. Zombie Hearts
31. Winter
32.  All In
33.  Manners and Mutiny
34.  The Revolution of Ivy
35. See How They Run
36. My Life with the Walter Boys
37. Heartbreakers
38. Thorn
39. Two Way Street
40. The Isle of the Lost
41. Dreams of Gods & Monsters
42. Half Lost
43. Wanderlost
44. Just Ella
45. Perfect Cover
46. Killer Spirit
47. Ice Like Fire

CLASSICS:
>8. Jane Austen 2-3
>12. Charles Dickens 2-3
>21. Poe - Nantucket
   >23. Wilde 1/9
   >24. Shakespeare 2/37
   >25. Poe 3/71
   >26. Andersen 7/99
>1. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other stories
>2. Oz 2-3
>4. Going Solo
>5. Catcher in the Rye
>6. Tom Sawyer
>7. Huckleberry Finn
>10. Sense and Sensibility
>11. Oliver Twist

>14. Wuthering Heights
>15. The Prince and the Pauper
>16. Sherlock Holmes 2,3,4,6
>19. Agatha Christie
>20. Agatha Christie
>22. Dorian Grey
>27. Grimm 200/200


>28. Agatha Christie

BROS BOOKS:
>9. Animal Farm
>10. To Kill a Mockingbird
11. Ask and the Answer 2-3
13. Safe Haven
3. Eleanor and Park
5. School Spirits
1. Geek Girl
4. Book Thief
8. Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks
>12. Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
2. Howl's Moving Castle
6. Graveyard Book
7. Stardust