#the great alone

[battleslippers]

she's so unbelievably real

[rains-of-words]

Books are the mile markers of my life. Some people have family photos or home movies to record their past. I’ve got books. Characters. For as long as I can remember, books have been my safe place.

Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

[goodnessgraciousgal]

“Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

From the novel: The Great Alone // Kristin Hannah

[callforhelp]

She didn't want to hope for the best; dashed hopes were worse than no hopes at all.

Leni saw suddenly how hope could break you. What happened to you if you hoped too hard for the best and got the worst? Was it better not to hope at all, to prepare? Wasn't that what her father's lesson always was? Prepare for the worst.

Leni got it. Hope. A shiny thing, a lure for the unwary. She knew how seductive it could be, and how dangerous.

She hoped she would never see it again. How sad that her hope felt like loss.

…but every time I call, I think, maybe this time. That hope is all I have, useless or not.

- Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

[marisareadsalot]

If anyone has tricks on how to get stickers off of books it would be much appreciated 🫶🏽

[mybookhaven]

The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah

Historical fiction - Domestic abuse - Romance

⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)

Historical fiction will always have a special place in my heart even though i've been shattered to pieces on multiple occasions after reading books in said genre. This is a book about love. Love that hurts, love that builds, love that blinds, and love that kills. It is a very heavy book and i would recommend anyone who is sensitive to topics of domestic abuse to go through trigger warnings before starting it. I can still feel the heaviness of it all in my heart, and that's how i know it will hold its place inside my mind forever.

Cover design: Michael Storrings

The book is about a family of three, Leni a 13 year old girl, and her parents Cora and Ernt who upend their lives in Seattle (1974) to move to the state of Alaska for a fresh start. It's about people that find themselves in a place where "wild" takes on a deeper meaning finding its way to every crevice in their lives. A family that breaks and rebuilds with the whims of a man left broken from the war. It's a story about so many kinds of love that can hurt and grow at the same time.

Hannah was able to paint the events of the books in a way that felt very intimate to the reader. I felt like i was standing there next to the characters fighting the urge to reach out and help in situations that tore me apart. The characters were so well developed and felt very real to me which made everything that happens much more painful to witness.

It's a book about life, and how beautiful and ugly it can be, and how unfair it is to be born in a situation so out of your control that affects each and every step you take.

One of my favorite things about this book is the setting, middle of nowhere Alaska surrounded by the wild beauty of the northern (semi)wild. And i think it was the perfect place to reflect everything the book stands for.

My only issue was that the book was sometimes very slow paced, though i understood the need for those sections later on. But other than that, I would definitely recommend it to the world. Just make sure that you do not need your mood to be stable for the period of reading the book because it took over me completely that i found it hard to function well enough to get back to my work😅.

[ademella]

currently reading

[meandmydog22]

My Favorite Books Right Now!

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Where the Crawdads Sing

The Secret Life Of Bees

Braiding Sweetgrass

Under a Dancing Star

My Brilliant Friend

On Earth Were Briefly Gorgeous

The Great Alone

Orbiting Jupiter

A Little Life

[inlovewithquotes]

For as long as I can remember, books have been my safe place.

- The Great Alone

[iilaetitia]

[battleslippers]

OUTSIDERS REFERENCE⁉️⁉️⁉️

[satashiiwrites]

Alaska herself can be Sleeping Beauty one minute and a bitch with a sawed-off shotgun the next. There’s a saying: Up here you can make one mistake. The second one will kill you.

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

[ace-bookdragon]

currently reading the great alone by kristin hannah and it is. an Experience

[defilerwyrm]

Growth capitalism is a deranged fantasy for lunatics.

Year 1, your business makes a million dollars in profit. Great start!

Year 2, you make another million. Oh no! Your business is failing because you didn't make more than last year!

Okay, say year 2 you make $2 mil. Now you're profitable!

Then year 3 you make $3 mil. Oh no! Your business is failing! But wait, you made more money than last year right? Sure, but you didn't make ENOUGH more than last year so actually your business is actively tanking! Time to sell off shares and dismantle it for parts! You should have made $4 mil in profit to be profitable, you fool!

If you're not making more money every year by an ever-increasing exponent, the business is failing!

Absolute degenerate LUNACY

[mandi-celeste]

Currently Reading:

Both are very good so far.

[nikkinelson1313]

best place to be 😏