Hey, if you like books.....

Hi Nexus

its a pretty good list...and there are books I would add...

the velveteen rabbit - as a story of diagnosis acceptance

... further books to add....

Oscar Wilde: The Nightingale and the Rose (the fickleness of folk)

black Roses - Simon Armitage - about the dangers of not fitting in. A piece of prose about a goth and her partner killed for being different - true story. Quote below:

”

Have we said the wrong word?
Have we made the wrong turn?
Have we strayed from the path?
Have we stepped on their patch?

Do they find offence
at the studs in my lips,
or the rings in my ear?
Are they morally outraged by what we wear?

We are kindly creatures, peaceful souls,
but something of our life aggravates theirs,
something in their lives despises ours.

The difference between us is what they can't stand.”

I have never read the velveteen rabbit.

At 16 The Chrysalids spoke to me in a way I had never imagined. 

Enjoy...

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/williams/rabbit/rabbit.html

:)

I’m glad you enjoyed it DC. :-)

Greetings... I had allowance last night and so I read this story. I am most of all glad that it had a "Happy Ending" for the Rabbit. This is the kind of ditty I would write if allowed. So I am also writing a "Thank You" as well, here, to Miss Nasally-Enhanced...  :-)

The Famished Road, Ben Okri. Winner of the Booker Prize in the 1980s. It’s about an African Spirit child.

”Once upon a time there was a road, and because the road was once a river it was always hungry”

opening lines (from memory)

“We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.”

The Famished Road, Ben Okri. Winner of the Booker Prize in the 1980s. It’s about an African Spirit child.

”Once upon a time there was a road, and because the road was once a river it was always hungry”

opening lines (from memory)

“We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.”