Stereomood

I wanted to recomend this site name http://www.stereomood.com/ it is purposley built to help find new music you might be interested in and has playlists depending on how you're feeling. Hope you enjoy, Meena.

Words of wisdom

Wanted to share some of my favourite quotes:
“What did I know of life, I who had lived so carefully? Who had neither won nor lost, but just let life happen to him? Who had the usual ambitions and settled all too quickly for them not being realized? Who avoided being hurt and called it a capacity for survival? Who paid his bills, stayed on good terms with everyone as far as possible, for whom ecstasy and despair soon became just words once read in novels? One whose self-rebukes never really inflicted pain? Well, there was all this to reflect upon, while I endured a special kind of remorse: a hurt inflicted at long last on one who always thought he knew how to avoid being hurt - and inflicted for precisely that reason.”  Julian Barnes

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”  Franz Kafka

“Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in “sadness,” “joy,” or “regret.” Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, “the happiness that attends disaster.” Or: “the disappointment of sleeping with one’s fantasy.” I’d like to show how “intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members” connects with “the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.” I’d like to have a word for “the sadness inspired by failing restaurants” as well as for “the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.” I’ve never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I’ve entered my story, I need them more than ever.” Jeffrey Eugenides

“This is what you do. If you feel low, you stand tall. You mess up, you move on. You want to try something, try it, and if it was a stupid thing to try, you look it in the eye. There’s no turning back. You apologize if you’re sorry, but know that the nimblest, strongest hands can’t rebuild a bridge out of embers, so cut new wood. Start from scratch. You love with your whole heart. If you’re jealous, talk yourself from the ledge. If you can’t talk yourself down from the ledge, have a good time up there, looking down on the world. If you have to lie to make everything true again, lie like you mean it. If you find yourself in a cage, reach out through the bars for the key, unlock the door, and run away. If running away gets dangerous, run home. If home doesn’t mean what it used to mean, decide what home will be in the future. If your best friend says she doesn’t trust you, hold her jaw in your hand until it hurts, and make her face you. That’s all it takes. If you think you love a guy, see how his hand looks in yours, that’s all it takes. If you get exiled into a new land, then go discover it. And if you feel like you’re drowning, go swimming.”  Hobson Brown

Booklist 2012

I have always found that reading is the most ultimate form of escape, for this reason I have compiled a booklist which I shall attempt to read this year. Some classics may be slightly ambitious, but I think each story teaches me something and I want to experience what these books have to offer. If anyone has previously read any of these books, I would love to hear your opinion on them.
- The Catcher in The Rye - J.D Salinger
- Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
- Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
- Lord Of the Flies - William Golding
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- 1984 - George Orwell
- The Perks of being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
- The Beautiful and the Damned - Scott Fitzgerald
- Michael Morpurgo Box Set
- When God was a Rabbit - Sarah Winman
- Any Human Heart - William Boyd
- And Then there were None - Agatha Christie

A new beginning.

This is my first post, which I hope will be followed by many more. I am as yet unsure as to what this blog will compromise of, but it will be in someway linked to a train of thought or by something which has inspired me which i wish to share.
It is a new beginning for two reasons, firstly a new blog, and secondly a new year. The two are linked as I have created this blog as it was part of my new year's bucketlist, which I will upload later.