Fike's Bookshelf

This is for you if you like believable characters, fast-paced plots, and into friendship, creativity and/or gaming.

Sadie&Sam are childhood best friends who reunited and made video games together. They are smart and artsy, but they also have their own flaws, secrets, and traumas. These things show up in the games they create. Before you know it, their talents catapult them to fame and fortune.

[MY FAVORITE 2024 FICTION BOOK] This book was named Goodreads' 2022 Best Fiction winner — and for good reason. For me, it's all about the characters: they're incredibly likeable, complex, and vividly alive. #BookReview #BookRecommendation

Promise yourself to give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. -Christian D. Larson

Always do what you are afraid to do. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them. -Marilyn Monroe

Isn't it ironic... We ignore those who adore us, adore those who ignore us, hurt those who love us, and love those who hurt us.

Why be a copy when you were born to be an original. -Oscar Wilde

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles. -Charlie Chaplin

People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long. -Johnny Depp

The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday.

Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.

Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right. -Henry Ford

It is better to travel than to arrive. -Buddha

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay. -Dalai Lama

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. -Dr. Seuss

Life is just a stupid game. You just can't surrender and quite. You must stay strong and fight to survive whether you like it or not.

Enjoy your coffee, not the cup. Enjoy your life, not your job, wealth, and else.

Sometimes we put up walls. Not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down.