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“In vino veritas.” – Pliny the Elder
There is this saying in Latin, “In vino veritas,” that roughly translated, it means “in wine there is the truth.”
In essence it means, that after drinking, a persons’ tongue is loosened enough to say what they really think, what they really feel and incidentally, the truth.
Paulo Coelho has this saying where he proclaims that,
“truth resides where there is faith.”
It’s this concept of [Read more...]
“In life, God grants you opportunities, you either embrace them or you don’t.
It doesn’t matter who you are, it’s what you do that defines you.”
- My daddy
“Did you thank God today that you’re pretty?” said my friend Michelle.
I beg your pardon, what?
“You heard me,” she said. “Did you thank God today that you’re pretty?”
Umm, no.
“Listen, I may not be [Read more...]
Hello there 
Okay, so it’s Banned Books Week! *yay!*
So in lieu of some of the feedback on my Facebook, Twitter and the comments section of my “Hello Banned Books Week” post — I wanted to share with you a list the BBC made for the year 2000 and then updated shortly after. There are two giant lists here, so I turned it into the “Top 200.”
See two links below:
I wondered how many I read, since I am a bookworm and I admit to that fact, so here we go.
I’m going to post the Top 200 because there are some on 100-200 that I read as well. I put line breaks in groups of 20 for easy navigation.
Going to use a [x] to signify I read it.
Going to use “bold” formatting to signify I LOVED it.
Going to use “italics” formatting to signify I WANT to read it. [Read more...]
Continuing with the Little Pink Book’s coverage of Banned Books Week I wanted to share with you some information from the American Library Association and a little PR-insight as well. [Read more...]
Have you ever read Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist?
It’s a really interesting story about a shepherd boy who goes in search of his personal legend and lately I’ve been thinking about it a lot. I’m a Gen-Y you see, who is pretty much jobless and because of the recession it seems like I’m stuck in an endless spiral of confusion and complex whirlwinds I never imagined facing back in December 2008 when I was prepping to gradute.
I grew up with everyone telling me, ‘go to college, get a degree, get two in fact, work hard…you’ll land the job’ — well, a recession changes that now doesn’t it?
Do you ever sit down and wonder [Read more...]
