Pamela’s Book Spot

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a weekly  meme hosted by Sheila @  Book Journey  where you can share  what you are reading each week. Be sure to visit Book Journey to link up  if want to join in!  I am well and truly back into the swing of things at work, hence the lack of reading and posts! :( No worry though, this week I am aiming to make up for it.  I am going to put Cutting for Stone down and come back to it later - only because I find it hard to read two pretty heavily themed books at the one time as I am also still reading All That I Am by Anna Funder. Instead of Cutting For Stone, I'm going to read The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag because I have been hanging out to read some more Flavia!!! If you haven't read any of the Flavia de Luce series, then you should!! lol :)

Hosted by  Freda's Voice I have had a difficult week and find myself taking a step back from life to remember what is important to me and who I am. The universe has a way of helping you along when you are struggling and it took me to this beautiful quote by Audrey Hepburn. Hope you like it to. "For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." ~Audrey Hepburn  1929 – 1993 ~ British Actress and Humanitarian

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by  MizB of Should Be Reading . Anyone can play along! Just do the following: * Grab your current read * Open to a random page * Share 2 “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page * BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) * Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers! This weeks Teaser Tuesday comes from All That I Am By Anna Funder. I love it when you come across observations in a book that really resonate with you. This weeks teaser was one of those moments for me... "Children are the only people who can see adults from inside their lives, permitted to observe every small thing, as if their forming minds are incapable of judging what they see, or as if it does not lodge there, somewhere, permanently." (p. 40)

Hosted by  Freda's Voice I am going back to work on Monday and can't wait to see the beautiful kids in my class after their holiday, so this week I thought I'd quote about children. The passage by Kahil Gibrahn is one of my favourites. If you haven't read his work in 'The Prophet', try and get yourself a copy, it is simply beautiful. A child can ask a thousand questions  that the wisest man cannot answer.  Jacob Abbott 1803 - 1879 We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children  that makes the heart too big for the body.                       Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882 Your children are not your children, they are the sons and daughters of  life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts for they have their own though...

The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda over at  Freda's Voice . The rules are simple: *Grab a book, any book. *Turn to page 56. *Find any sentence that grabs you. (I cheat sometimes and put a little more than a sentence!) *Post it. *Add your post URL to the Link. Today's Friday 56 comes from another of my favourite reads titled 'Wide Sargasso Sea' By Jean Rhys which was written as a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre although it does also stand on it's own. Wide Sargasso Sea tells the story of Bertha Mason, who was Mr Rochester's first wife, the madwoman in the attic of Thornfield Hall. Jean Rhys uses such beautiful, sensory descriptive language and this was one of the things I loved most about Wide Sargasso Sea.  "Christophine cried bitterly but I could not. I prayed, but the words fell to the ground meaning nothing." (p. 55/56)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by  MizB of Should Be Reading . Anyone can play along! Just do the following: * Grab your current read * Open to a random page * Share 2 “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page * BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) * Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers! Well, here is my teaser for this week....taken from The Earth Hums in B Flat By Mari Strachan. "'If you're clever you'll get on in this old world,' says Tada. 'No-one will think Gwennie's clever if she goes around saying she can fly and dead animals are resurrected,' said Mam. 'I think it wants me to help it,' I say. 'I think it wants a decent burial. Like we gave Siani Nanti.' (p. 56)

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a weekly meme hosted by Sheila @  Book Journey  where you can share  what you are reading each week. Be sure to visit Book Journey to link up  if want to join in!  Well, before I talk about what I am reading this week, let me just say that I finished The Fault in Our Stars By John Green on Saturday and oh my goodness what an amazing read...just, wow! So raw, honest and heart wrenching....you have to read it. Review will be here soon :)  This week though, I am excited to be starting Cutting for Stone By Abraham Verghese and The Earth Hums in B Flat By Mari Strachan. Cutting for Stone By Abraham Verghese is one that I have wanted to start reading all year!  The Earth Hums in B Flat By Mari Strachan is one that has been on my TBR pile forever and is also part of my Mount TBR challenge...yay!!