December 2010
Anonymous asked: Thank you for your advice on Blood Meridian. I haven't read Moby-Dick yet; it's also on my list of future books to read. Is Blood Meridian in written in a way similar to The Road?
Anonymous asked: Thank you for your advice on Blood Meridian. I haven't read Moby-Dick yet; it's also on my list of future books to read. Is Blood Meridian in written in a way similar to The Road?
Anonymous asked: My English teacher wrote his Master's thesis on "Blood Meridian", so I was thinking about reading it over the summer. How did you like it? Do you think a 16 year old future English major might enjoy it?
Anonymous asked: My English teacher wrote his Master's thesis on "Blood Meridian", so I was thinking about reading it over the summer. How did you like it? Do you think a 16 year old future English major might enjoy it?
“Reading great books and reading them well is what is important. Meditative...”
– John Piper, on the sanctifying power of books (via Desiring God)
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman
theweirdsister asked: i'm a bit curious: do you know and/or like brazilian (portuguese) literature?
“There’s a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else’s work in the...”
– Jonathan Franzen, Freedom (via oliveryeh)
theweirdsister asked: i'm a bit curious: do you know and/or like brazilian (portuguese) literature?
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– booklover replied to your post: Word Painting Reads
Are these books also the books you liked this year or have you just made the list of all the books you read? I will make a list too. ______________________
I actually go through my library every new year and compile a list of books that I want...
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– booklover replied to your post: Word Painting Reads
Are these books also the books you liked this year or have you just made the list of all the books you read? I will make a list too. ______________________
I actually go through my library every new year and compile a list of books that I want...
“And I like that author best who shows me my own world, conditions such as I live...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)
Word Painting Reads
Here is a list of the books I read during 2010. I read 90% of my 2010 reading list (not bad given the amount of time I spent at work and writing). I’m already compiling my reading list for 2011 and look forward to reading those. Anyway, here’s the list for 2010:
1. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III 2. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy 3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by...
“Books push their writer forward. The writer has to have the accumulation of what...”
– Jeanette Winterson; Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
“I do not think it is possible (or moral) to write a book that is made to affect...”
– Jeanette Winterson; Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
Word Painting Reads
Here is a list of the books I read during 2010. I read 90% of my 2010 reading list (not bad given the amount of time I spent at work and writing). I’m already compiling my reading list for 2011 and look forward to reading those. Anyway, here’s the list for 2010:
1. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III 2. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy 3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by...
“Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns...”
– Jeanette Winterson; Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
“What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something...”
– John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)
“I do not think it is possible (or moral) to write a book that is made to affect...”
– Jeanette Winterson; Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
“Books push their writer forward. The writer has to have the accumulation of what...”
– Jeanette Winterson; Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
“heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the...”
– Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (submitted by burnt-stars)
“Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via liquidnight)
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“In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental...”
– Stephane Mallarme (via booklover)
“To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re...”
– Ogden Nash, A Word to Husbands (via welovewriters)
“They thought death was worth it, but I
Have a self to recover, a queen.
Is she...”
– Stings, Sylvia Plath (via aplathaday)
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“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a...”
– Jeanette Winterson; Art Objects: Essays on Ecstacy and Effrontery
