John Green and Rosianna Halse Rojas are starting a book club! Every six weeks for one year a group of people will read a book together. 100% of the profits from the book club will go to Partners in Health.
Life's Library, a new kind of book club.
If you are interested sign up HERE.
The first book is Jacqueline Woodson's, If You Come Softly.
The book is inspired by a poem by Audre Lorde that begins:
If you come softly
as the wind within the trees
you may hear what I hear
see what sorrow sees.
as the wind within the trees
you may hear what I hear
see what sorrow sees.
from the book:
“I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, "Hey, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my time on this earth with." And if you miss it, or walk away from it, or even maybe, blink - it's gone.”
― If You Come Softly
― If You Come Softly
“This is how the time moves - an hour here, a day somewhere, and then it's night and then it's morning. A clock ticking on a shelf. A small child running to school, a father coming home.
Time moves over us and past us, and the feeling of lips pressed against lips fades into memory. A picture yellows at its edges. A phone rings in an empty room.”
― If You Come Softly
Time moves over us and past us, and the feeling of lips pressed against lips fades into memory. A picture yellows at its edges. A phone rings in an empty room.”
― If You Come Softly
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