What I Learned - Ways of the Doomed by Moira McPartlin (The Sun Song Trilogy)

This beauty of a book is part one of the Sun Song Trilogy, and it is amazing! I have since read book two and cannot wait to get my hands on book three. Set in the potential Scotland of our future, it really strikes a chord and resonates, especially given all the environmental and leadership issues our world is facing as we speak. It's easy to see how carrying on on the path we are travelling at the moment could bring us here.

The cast of characters is gorgeous, and completely believable. This series of books will stay with me for a long time after I finish them.

What I learned:

Memories are one thing no one can take from you - they are yours, no matter what happens and who tries to make you miserable.

Excuse my language, but is life not all about making the shit smell sweeter for the people we love. Life happens, and will continue to happen, and not always in a fairy-tale way, but how you deal with it is what counts.

""shituation" may just have become my new favourite word!!!

Don't stand on the side-lines. Get stuck in and do whatever you can, no matter how small, to help the people who need it.

Individual thought will take you anywhere and everywhere you want to go in life. Where you've come from doesn't matter, and you shouldn't ever feel restricted by it. Your thoughts and your "you-ness" are all you need in life. Embrace them.

I had never heard of this legend until I read this book, but have since read about it...what a mystery. Find more here.

I have now read this passage about 4 times, and my stomach rumbles and mouth waters every single time. I think this could be the best food description I have ever read in any novel.

A timely reminder that we should always remember the lessons of the past.

I find this fascinating. History books will always have some bias based on the country they were written in and who they were written by. Indeed the "facts" can be perceived differently by different parties. I feel this is evident in a lot of our news reporting today...read 5 different articles on the same incident and you are guaranteed to find several different versions of the "facts". Which version will history record as true?

Powerful. Everyone has the right to know what freedom is. This is why people put their lives, and the lives of their children, at risk everyday...to give their kids that taste of freedom that I sometimes think the rest of us take for granted.

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