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California spring weather apparently includes thunderstorms, heavy rain, and a downpour of hail. I’m sitting inside with a blanket and my mini heater pointed at me. It’s May 19, Mother Nature, bring back the sun!

Carry on. I’m just freaking out and celebrating at the same time. #numbered2019

I just finished reading The Overstory, by Richard Powers, this year’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel. There are so many reasons why I love this book, and I’m still marinating with the story. The most profound thing about it are the many parallels. This includes the structure of the story. In one part, a character named Patricia describes the incredible way a forest is connected. Above ground, trees are separate, growing tall and wide as a singular tree. But underground, their roots are constantly reaching until they find the roots of another. Then those two trees fuse together, sharing their lives. Eventually, the forest of many trees is linked at the root. This is the same with this book. It’s made of many stories, all which seem unlinked at first. But keep reading because these stories are reaching for the others until they grasp hold and fuse together. But wait. This is the same as life. We’re all separate humans with our own story. You see where I’m going with this, right? This book is so much more than a story. It’s filled with insight that will have you looking around you and inside yourself in brand new ways, and open your eyes to the reality of what we’re doing to this planet. That, and you’ll never see trees the same way. There’s a reason why this book won the Pulitzer. When I first started reading it, I was under the impression this was just an ordinary story. But as I read, this book got under my skin and made me a part of the story. It was that deep. This is easily one of the best books I’ve ever read. #theoverstory #pulitzerprize #bookstagram

Happy Mother’s Day! 💕

Her comment when I showed her this mom-daughter mashup: “Oh God, we’re even posed the same way.”

The two books that started everything. These books share what happens after a mother and son die in a car accident. They’re different stories, but on the same timeline. Have you read them? A Symphony of Cicadas Rachel Ashby thought she had it all. She was in the midst of blending her family with her fiancé, and mere weeks away from her wedding. After a lifetime of disappointment, everything was finally falling in place. That is, until she was killed. Now Rachel is just a bystander in the life that was supposed to be hers. But in death, she learns more about what it means to be alive. Forever Thirteen This is Joey's story, a thirteen-year-old boy stuck in the afterlife, and mourning the loss of everything he never got to be. In death, he's just a short, chubby, geeky boy...forever. And he's certain that there's no worse fate. But when Joey takes a peek at those he left behind, he becomes aware of just how bad his best friend Cameron is taking his death - and how no one seems to be noticing. As the kids at school get more creative in their cruelty, Cameron plummets deeper into depression and self-destruction. Joey realizes if he doesn't step in, Cameron is going to do something he can't take back. Find all my books at crissilangwell.com/books.

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