February 2012
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Nerds Heart YA 2012 Will Be Different But You... →
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“Do you ever feel that there is nothing left to happen—nothing? As if everything...”
– War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (via mykeenknife)
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“And then her mind crowds with other things—a noisy parade of memories that...”
– The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell
at the risk of gushing, this book is so fantastic.
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irisblasi:
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
—David Foster Wallace (born today in 1962)
Happy 50th, DFW. You are much missed.
“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (via hmhbooks)
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Disney Hipster Princesses →
aw they’re so cute!
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I have a question that needs an answer. Is Jennifer Worth’s The Midwife that was published in the US just the first book in the Call the Midwife trilogy that was published in the UK, the combination of all the books, or a sort of condensed version?
I loved that book so much when I read it and had no idea there was a BBC television series. But if there are more books I want to read them, but...
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the...”
– James Baldwin (via doubledaybooks)
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marcus-flutie:
back on the “he didn’t send it” bandwagon today
I didn’t realize you’d left!
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“It’s a basic but still weird fact about books that two people’s experiences of...”
– Lev Grossman (via millionsmillions)
I feel less that people suck if they don’t hate a book I hate but if they don’t love a book I love I do struggle!
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via symbioticharmony)
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GG Ramblings feel free to skip →
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marcus-flutie:
Hope you don’t mind I jacked your wall of text, boo (it’s amazing btw), but I wanted to add my own thoughts (see: frustration). Yes, I have thoughts on Gossip Girl. I need some spiritual divinity to save me from this mess.
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I think they voiced the motivation through Georgina though, it would both ruin the wedding and ruin Chuck in...
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GG Ramblings feel free to skip
marcus-flutie:
Hope you don’t mind I jacked your wall of text, boo (it’s amazing btw), but I wanted to add my own thoughts (see: frustration). Yes, I have thoughts on Gossip Girl. I need some spiritual divinity to save me from this mess.
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I think they voiced the motivation through Georgina though, it would both ruin the wedding and ruin Chuck in Blair’s eyes. And the...
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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal,...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via bookmania)
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“Satisfying the “shippers” (a term used to identify fans who root for fictional...”
– Ewww I hate this so much! I don’t want to watch a show that is concerned with keeping the audience members happy in this way, I want to watch a show that strives to tell the best most honest story they can.
Also those covers are terrible!
This Week’s Cover: ‘The Vampire...
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“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to...”
– e. e. cummings (via thegirlandherbooks)