January 2011
30 posts
I like books.
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that is all
“Closing libraries is child abuse.”
– Alan Bennett (via cabbageandking)
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Five chapters into To Kill a Mockingbird. This will be my third time reading this book, and I still love it just as much. I’m so glad that we’re reading it in my methods class. Which means I’ll be learning how to teach the book itself and that’s very exciting because I actually like this book. It’s always nice to reread novels. There are new perspectives which I...
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“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love...”
– Scout Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird)
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I’m starting To Kill a Mockingbird and Jane Eyre today for two different classes. Count of Monte Cristo is being put on the back burner I think. I really shouldn’t complain about getting to read all these great books, but honestly some times I get a little overwhelmed.
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is...”
– John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society (via paulavaleria)
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“That’s what writing is for me, an endless cycle of making it worse, making...”
– Gloria Anzaldua “Tlilli, Tlapalli/The Path of the Red and Black Ink”
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“It is a still stranger thing that there is nothing so delightful in the world as...”
– Virginia Woolf “Professions For Women”
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My women writers class is capable of doing two...
1. Make me hate the female gender.
2. Make me hate the male gender.
3. I’m going for hating both though. Society can be really thick sometimes.
“Good books, like our true selves, aren’t instantly created or perfectly crafted....”
– Sarah Dessen (via shimmerandshine)
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I was at Barnes and Noble with my friend the other night, because he didn’t have a car and needed to buy books. And while he was getting what he needed I meandered my way to the “teen” section to take a peek at Mockingjay because I haven’t read it yet. I only got a page or two in when he came looking for me. He spotted me and as he got closer he said “I was wondering...
“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (via paperlover)
“If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of...”
– Richard Rhodes (via the-write-idea)
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For those of you who are up for it...
Go look up Isak Dinesen’s “The Blank Page”
It’s a short story (which I have to read for my women’s lit class) and I found it very intriguing. That’s my recommendation for the day. I’m off to go finish my homework. I’m being all productive and timely now. It’s weird.
“Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on...”
– Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl (via tallllgirl)
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The Count is in the Building
I finally started The Count of Monte Cristo (Robyn don’t kill me for starting it so late) and I’m actually kind of a fan. Which given that it’s 618 pages long means it won’t be torture for me to finish it. YAY!!!!
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Catching Fire
I finally finished it…took me long enough (and it took me walking in to Barnes and Noble, grabbing the first copy I found, sitting down, and just reading until I finished)
I literally almost didn’t finish it because I was so confused/frustrated on how Katniss and the other victor/tributes were going to get out of the quelle. I honestly wasn’t expecting most of what happened,...
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“In fact,” said Mustapha Mond, “you’re claiming the right to be unhappy.”
“All right then,” said the Savage defiantly, “I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.”
“Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to...
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“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I...”
– Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
“I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It’s probably what I...”
– Markus Zusak (via beezusishere)
“I like books that aren’t just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just...”
– Emma Watson. (via daleksontumblr)
Follower explosion!
Gah! I came to check this blog and I’m just beside myself with this sudden appearance of new followers!!!
I love you all!
And apparently it’s all thanks to this quote I posted.
My undying love goes out to you all!
Just finished Slaughterhouse-Five
My goodness what a quirky little book it is!
You can read my short commentary about it here. But now I’m going to go lolligag around with Catching Fire because it’s addicting and I can’t stop reading listening to it on tape. I will be back with my thoughts on that soon!
Byyyyyyyyeeeeeee.
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“What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at...”
– Slaughterhouse-Five
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Fail
I haven’t been updating as much as I would like. Fail me. And I’ve been jumping around with the books I’ve been reading so I haven’t finished anything as of the new year. I haven’t even gotten a far ways into Emma which is just nonsense in my opinion. It’s probably because my new obsession with Doctor Who has taken over most of my waking moments. But with the...
“Books. People never really stop loving books. Fifty-first century. By now you’ve...”
– The Doctor
Doctor Who
I. Love. Books.
(via allyquotes)
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“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear....”
– Theodore Roethke