December 2011
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Books Read for 2011
Here’s a list of the books I’ve read from 2011:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
Little Bee - Chris Cleave
Night - Elie Wiesel
How Reading Changed My Life - Anna Quindlen
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
The Stephen King Illustrated Companion - Bev Vincent
The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa - Neil Peart
In the...
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“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness,...”
– Stephen King
alexandrafoulkes-deactivated201 asked: Very nice blog! I kind of want to reblog everything myself, because I really think that everyone should be excited about reading. I like your enthusiasm! Slightly terrible/socially awkward when it comes to Tumblr, but Happy New Year for tomorrow, and have a great 2012. :) - Ally
Watchprofessional-princess:
What Are You Doing New Years Eve? by Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
– Rudyard Kipling
“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when...”
– Henry Miller (via skeletales)
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“Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if...”
– Ray Bradbury (via pavorst)
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DFW word of the day
themottstmenagerie:
Feculent - ADJECTIVE:
Full of foul or impure matter; fecal.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English, from Latin faeculentus, heavy with sediment, from faex, faec-, dregs
OTHER FORMS: fec u·lence(Noun)
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“His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her...”
– James Joyce; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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charlesharlowe-deactivated20120 asked: i've fallen in love with your blog within seconds <333
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“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get...”
– Mortimer J. Adler
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Books are not banned because they are inherently...
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“It’s possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and...”
– Raymond Carver
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible...”
– Albert Camus
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Games of Thrones
Via: Screen Rant
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“Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.”
– George Dryer (via whynotread)
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“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is...”
– Charles Dickens; A Christmas Carol
I will not be on Tumblr tomorrow so let me wish...
I hope everyone has a very happy Christmas. Cheers!
“Very gently and quietly, almost as if it were the blood singing in her veins, or...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out. (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
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“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming...”
– Marcel Proust
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“Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms...”
– Robert Bly; The Night Abraham Called to the Stars: Poems
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“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
– Woodrow Wilson
“I was sitting on the seashore, half listening to a friend arguing violently...”
– Aldous Huxley (via terramantra)
