18, WG18, F10, E18 / NG0, M8, MF0, B0, D0, Frz0, C0, NA0

Lisa Jewell, The House We Grew Up In

Auch wenn ich keinen Lesestoff gebraucht hätte, wäre das Buch längst fällig für ein Wiederlesen gewesen. Neben der Geschichte von der Messie Lorelei sind die grundverschiedenen Lebensläufe ihrer Kinder bis sie sich schließlich zum Aufräumen ihres Elternhauses treffen sehr bewegend.

I think things are so important. Pretty things. Mementoes. That's part of it all, you see, when I go into one of my shops and see that someone has given away a little china vase, say, something pretty, that someone designed, that someone created, that someone liked enough to buy, and bring into their home, it imbues that object with so much substance. So much importance. To my thinking at least. So seeing it there, in a charity shop, given away, given back to the universe, it goes against the grain. It makes me sad. So I have to buy it. To redress the balance.
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(Lisa Jewell, The House We Grew Up In, 2013)