March 2011
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February 2011
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2011 books to movies →
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“You don’t have
to burn books to
destroy a culture.
Just get people
to stop...”
– Ray Bradbury
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books I'm currently reading
How to be alone : essays by Franzen, Jonathan
Pages for you by Brownrigg, Sylvia
The IHOP papers by Liebegott, Ali
Nightwood by Barnes, Djuna
Summer will show by Warner, Sylvia Townsend
Trace elements of random tea parties by Lemus, Felicia Luna
One Day by Nicholls, David
Lady Chatterley’s lover by Lawrence, D. H.
A red herring without mustard : a Flavia de Luce mystery by...
November 2010
4 posts
Misfits Day: The Bootleg Preview And Birthday... →
manelens:
SPOILERS
Literally, a bootlegged preview of Series 2 from the screening after party, I think.
ALKJFLAJFL;F;F;F LOLLLLLLLL OMG I CAN’T EXPRESS MY DELIGHT/EXCITEMENT/INTRIGUE/ETC APTLY ENOUGH WITH WORDS SO
Also of interest: A ‘review’ of Series 2, Episode 1, and there are other links on that ‘bleedingcool’ website to things related to the screening, like Q&A stuff, etc, through...
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September 2010
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“Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing.
I want to fill it with...”
– Sylvia Plath, Child
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“From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As...”
– Edgar Allen Poe - Alone
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August 2010
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Dark I Know Well: Sherlock Holmes →
The Canon of Sherlock Holmes consists of the fifty-six short stories and four novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In this context, the term “canon” is an attempt to distinguish between Doyle’s original works and subsequent works by other authors using the same characters. Novels A Study in Scarlet (serialised 1887) The Sign of the Four (published 1890) The Hound of the...
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Reblog with your favorite author.
ngx:
wwzqd:
whendreamscollapse:
eduardothegreat:
marijuanatablets / majorbuzzkill / -jessycrawford- / taur:
James Patterson
John Green
Jonathan Safran Foer
Audrey Niffenegger
Harper Lee
Chuck Palahniuk
Stephen King
Jhumpa Lahiri and Oscar Wilde
Anthony Trollope
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“As I walked back to Buckshaw, I thought how similar my life was to the lives of...”
– The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag - Alan Bradley
Always love seeing references to Anthony Trollope, who is by far one of my favourite authors.
(via darkiknowwell)
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Proud to be a spinster
The term “spinster” originally identified girls and women who spun wool. In mediaeval times, this was one of the few livelihoods available to a woman in order to live independently of a male wage. During the Elizabethan era, spinster came to indicate a woman or girl of marriageable age who was unwilling or unable to marry.
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Ten words you need to stop misspelling →
distantheartbeats:
(via nashoverstreet)
With illustrations! Go look.
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Books finished this July
1) Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby
2) Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
3) It’s Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini
4) Let the Ring One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist
5) Fanny Hill - John Cleland
6) The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
7) The End - Lemony Snicket
8) The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
9) Before the Frost - Henning Mankell
10) Catalyst - Laurie Haulse Anderson
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July 2010
10 posts
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“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via planetickets)
I hate you.: The BBC believes most people will... →
Instructions: 1) Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read. 2) Add a ‘+’ to the ones you LOVE. (Alternate: put a ‘-’ by the ones you loathe) 3) Star (*) those you plan on reading. 4) Tally your total at the bottom. How many have you read? 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x +
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien x + 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x + 4 Harry Potter series -...
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“The darkening town was very quiet. For a long time now her brother and the...”
– Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding
yeah, that pretty much explains it
(via mysmilesarifle)
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Fox News States Libraries Are A Waste of Tax Payer... →
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June 2010
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Books Read In 2009 and 2010
2009
1) Daniel Deronda - George Eliot 2) Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List- Rachel Cohn and David Levithan 3) One Step Behind - Henning Mankell 4) Savoy - Celia Rees 5) Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho 6) Slam - Nick Hornby 7) Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn and David Levithan 8) 13 Reasons Why - Jay Asher 9) Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling...
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“I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska (via distantheartbeats)
"I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t...
letusdieyoungorliveforever:
They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.”
The Kindly...
