Harry Dresden
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debris4spikeI really can't wait for the next book in this series ... due in November, and even better to know that James has read it ... so one more book for the car. (Harry & James keep me company as I drive!)
Some people don't know the series and wonder how people can get hooked. Well, it's a great storyline, with each book being both stand-alone, as well as part of the big picture. I like it that so many of the minor characters have great back-stories, just just the major ones ... and then you get sections like this .... (It is up on the FaceBook page at present ... and is just both so true, and so well written, I had to share)
"We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.
Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee. There's the little empty pain of leaving something behind - gradutaing, taking the next step forward, walking out of something familiar and safe into the unknown. There's the big, whirling pain of life upending all of your plans and expecations. There's the sharp little pains of failure, and the more obscure aches of successes that didn't give you what you thought they would. There are the vicious, stabbing pains of hopes being torn up. The sweet little pains of finding others, giving them your love, and taking joy in their life they grow and learn. There's the steady pain of empathy that you shrug off so you can stand beside a wounded friend and help them bear their burdens.
And if you're very, very lucky, there are a very few blazing hot little pains you feel when you realized that you are standing in a moment of utter perfection, an instant of triumph, or happiness, or mirth which at the same time cannot possibly last - and yet will remain with you for life.
Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.
Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but either way, it's a part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.”
― Jim Butcher (White Knight)
Role on November!
Some people don't know the series and wonder how people can get hooked. Well, it's a great storyline, with each book being both stand-alone, as well as part of the big picture. I like it that so many of the minor characters have great back-stories, just just the major ones ... and then you get sections like this .... (It is up on the FaceBook page at present ... and is just both so true, and so well written, I had to share)
"We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.
Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee. There's the little empty pain of leaving something behind - gradutaing, taking the next step forward, walking out of something familiar and safe into the unknown. There's the big, whirling pain of life upending all of your plans and expecations. There's the sharp little pains of failure, and the more obscure aches of successes that didn't give you what you thought they would. There are the vicious, stabbing pains of hopes being torn up. The sweet little pains of finding others, giving them your love, and taking joy in their life they grow and learn. There's the steady pain of empathy that you shrug off so you can stand beside a wounded friend and help them bear their burdens.
And if you're very, very lucky, there are a very few blazing hot little pains you feel when you realized that you are standing in a moment of utter perfection, an instant of triumph, or happiness, or mirth which at the same time cannot possibly last - and yet will remain with you for life.
Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.
Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but either way, it's a part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.”
― Jim Butcher (White Knight)
Role on November!
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Date: 2012-10-01 10:12 am (UTC)I hope you will do a review after you've listened to the cd's. Would love to hear your take on them.
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Date: 2012-10-03 04:22 pm (UTC)I haven't watched the series, and probably wouldn't want to as to me I hear James speaking Harry.
M, hard to be objective about those CDs ... will try to get my brain round that request and type some thoughts.
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Date: 2012-10-01 10:44 am (UTC)My true feelings are that we have a set path that teaches you lessons either you or God chose for you long before you were born. That path has pain, suffering, good times and mellow moments to develop your soul. We couldn't understand the joys without the painful moments to compare them.
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Date: 2012-10-03 04:28 pm (UTC)It is so true, as to apreciate the mountains, we have to see the valleys. Life would be so shallow and boring, even if the pain is hard to work through.
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Date: 2012-10-01 04:52 pm (UTC)and I have no time as is and what with all my TV shows starting again... ;)no subject
Date: 2012-10-03 04:17 pm (UTC)I just can't wait for the next bit of the story ... end of next month I shall be off to buy the book.
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Date: 2012-10-04 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
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