March 2012
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“The venn diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t want to...”
– John Green (via thoughtsdetained)
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Even though he's a giant schmuck this conversation...
Rory: You've read this before.
Jess: About 40 times.
Rory: I thought you said you didn't read much?
Jess: Well, what is much? Goodnight Rory.
Rory: Goodnight Dodger.
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beagleaegis:
she wears short skirts im a satanist shes cheer captain and ph’nglui mglw’nafh cthulhu r’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn
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Top 10 Most Misunderstood Lines in Literary... →
nouvellabooks:
For those looking to laugh out loud.
Rue, Race, and The Hunger Games →
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“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
– J.M. Barrie (via misswallflower)
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Life is beautiful.: How To Spot A Reader →
decodedjoy:
They know more than you do… about everything.
They often use words that you secretly have to look up later.
They have magical cards that get them books for free.
They speak the names of people whom you’ve never met; who live in different countries, who lived in other centuries.
Their purse/bag/briefcase is always a bit heavier than yours (which you later find out is...
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“In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can’t lull you with surging music or...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin (via planb-becomeapirate)
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The response to the "Shortpacked!" post is...
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“I love writing but I hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says. ” You...”
– Aaron Sorkin (via nedhepburn)
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Maybe I'm old, maybe I live in a seashell, but...
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"A Description of Nipples" by SB Sarah on Smart... →
Romance novels really do always seem to describe sex in very similar terms: “butterfly lips”, “his hardness”, “cherries”, “rosy”, “taut”, “stiff”, “exploratory”…. It can be highly off putting and makes you never want to have sex in a novel.
How Cheap Should Books Be? →
thelifeguardlibrarian:
Important news for book-lovers and Amazon-haters.
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7 Signs You're Reading the Right Books →
By Cassandra Neace on Book Riot — I’m posting this in two places simultaneously
This list is humorously penned and not very far off the mark - or so I thought. Then I scrolled through the comments to see what other people had to add to Neace’s thoughts. I was rather taken aback when I stumbled upon a rather nasty assessment.
A couple actually. A couple of readers...
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Shortpacked! by Davis Willis →
This may or may not* be how I spent my weekend.
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It's all in the tags. Xx Bex
author: she didn't want to eat dinner because she doesn't like chicken noodle soup
english teacher: even though it doesn't say it, we can infer that 17 years ago she encountered an attack from chickens while on a trip to africa visiting her great aunt who was dying from pneumonia which she got from chickens that were being harvested for the great feast
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I bought books at Whole Foods the other day.
It was from a motley collection of books that reminded me of the dude in Harvard Sq with cardboard box after cardboard box of books for donation.
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“Which of the two is now writing this poem
Of a plural I and of a single shadow?...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via proustitute)
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Watchlaughingsquid:
The Violin Maker, Short Film About A Brooklyn-Based Violin Maker
Another Love as old as reading and telling tales.
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Neil Gaiman: As requested by too many people:... →
neil-gaiman:
birdartpoetry asked: Mister Gaiman, you’re kickass. I was just wondering, what do you think is the best way to seduce a writer? I figured your answer would be pretty spectacular.
In my experience, writers tend to be really good at the inside of their own heads and imaginary people,…
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WatchI’m really happy there are people in the world pointing out all the flawed reasoning and major fallacies that are being employed in the blowhard rhetoric being bandied about by the Conservative Blowhards.
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Oi.
I was going to make a gorgeous (read: ridiculous) piece of art for you fine book lovers out there and I was going to photograph it and it was going to be my Monday Morning post this week, but then as I was drafting the idea and it’s loveliness in my mind I remembered: I left my camera at my grandmother’s house yesterday. (The woman is adorable, she called us up after we left to tell...
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“Growing up won’t bring us down.”
– The Maine, Growing Up (via thoughtsdetained)
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“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be...”
– Fred Rogers (via thoughtsdetained)
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"The Well-Readheads: On Tearjerkers" via Book Riot →
I love crying in public. I really do. I have no issue with it. Whether its personal or because of a book I’m reading, it’s just the best.
In my experience when you cry in public there is less of a chance of being seen by people-who-know-me. If I were to cry in private (because I have never lived alone in my life) there is always someone around who could walk in and catch me...
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