It must sound cliche but reading is my escape. With this pandemic going on, all I’ve got is time to do things in my own pace. I’ve got all the time in the world!
Fortunately, the books I got are timely and riveting. I have published in my previous posts about the books I’ve read earlier (The Lock Down Series, The Lockdown Series Pt. 2) when the pandemic started, this post highlights my favorite books. This comes in no particular order from my Goodreads page.
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power—the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.
Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.
But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love.
You can teach a viper to eat from your hands, but you cannot take away how much it likes to bite.I’ve found that courage is not a matter of age, but true-made spirits.
2. Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon
In this epic and haunting love story set on the Oregon Trail, a family and their unlikely protector find their way through peril, uncertainty, and loss.
The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both.
But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts work to keep them apart. John’s heritage gains them safe passage through hostile territory only to come between them as they seek to build a life together.
When a horrific tragedy strikes, decimating Naomi’s family and separating her from John, the promises they made are all they have left. Ripped apart, they can’t turn back, they can’t go on, and they can’t let go. Both will have to make terrible sacrifices to find each other, save each other, and eventually… make peace with who they are.
I couldn’t even describe it.
I have never been disappointed with all the Amy Harmon books I’ve read, though I have yet to read some of her previous books.
Love is the only thing worth sufferingThe hardest thing about life is knowing what matters and what doesn’t.If nothing matters, then there’s no point . if everything matters, there’s no purpose. The trick is to find firm ground between the two ways of being.The pain. It’s worth it. The more you love, the more it hurts. But it’s worth it. It’ the only thing that is.That’s what marriage is. It’s shelter. It’s sustenance. It’s warmth. It’s finding rest in each other. It’s telling someone ‘You matter the most’.
JO and Behold 