Carol's Sunflower

What I didn’t yet understand was the importance of taste and timing. Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work that isn’t guaranteed to pay off. Some become friends and say friends for life. Some change in our absence — or perhaps it is we who change in theirs — and we meet up again only to find that we don’t get along any more.

—Mark Haddon, The Right Words in the Right Order (via distantheartbeats)

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Back in 2008, I watched a really good HBO mini-series called House of Saddam. It was a frighteningly accurate look at the Iraqi dictator and his maniacal regime. But as much as Saddam was a ruthless leader, his son Uday was arguably the most sadistic of the Hussein men. Research Uday’s…