February 2012
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New Books!
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“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in...”
– Ezra Pound (via habemusquotes)
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100 Essential Reads for the Lifelong Learner →
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Currently Reading: Blood Meridian
For my birthday, the boy took me to Barnes and Nobles and told me to pick out any book I wanted. This was quite the predicament for a bookworm like me, but surprisingly enough ten minutes later I picked this book up. He still tortured me by making me go row by row, where I managed to pick up even more books and then had to begin a painful process of elimination.
I ended up letting him choose and...
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Just Finished: Left to Tell
I have so many thoughts after finishing Immaculee’s memoir.
I went into this book thinking I knew a fair amount about the Rwandan genocide. She showed me I was very wrong. There’s something more striking, heartbreaking, and terrifying about a firsthand account. She doesn’t shy away from details, explaining how her family was cut into pieces and describing the corpses that lay...
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Birthday To Do List:
Birthday Breakfast
Date with the Boy
Puppy Bowl/Kitty Halftime Show
Continuing my Gilmore Girls marathon in between all of this
CAKE
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Birthday Weekend!
I kind of really love my birthday. I always have since I was a little kid. Most people seem to grow out of enjoying their birthday as their age climbs, and while I’m not a fan of getting older, I like the feeling that comes with having a day that is all mine. Except since my birthday has been on a weekend for the last few years, I’ve granted myself birthday weekends. Why celebrate for...
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20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone... →
Who isn’t guilty of at least one of these at some point or another?
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Currently Reading: Left To Tell
The author is speaking at my college next week. She’s a survivor of the genocide that took place in Rwanda. She hid in a tiny bathroom for three months with seven other women. Below is a picture of her as she sits in that bathroom a decade later.
There really are no words.
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Just Finished: The Hours
This book erupted my Contemporary British Literature class today.
I’m still recovering from the arguing over characters, context, and finger pointing that went on for at least an hour and a half in class.
Like whoa. We English majors take our literature a little too seriously. But I love that.
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The Handmaid's Tale - In Pictures →
January 2012
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January 2012: An Evaluation
I’m not much for retrospectives, but things feel differently now. Happier. Comfortable. Safer. Stabler.
2011 was a rough year for me. Shuffling from home to home. Unsure of where I was going to end or who I would be with. Cutting ties with family members. Getting my heart broken - and no, I don’t mean romantically. I lost my sense of safety. My home. Pieces of my identity. My will.
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16 Reads for the 84th Annual Oscars
randomhouse:
The eighty-fourth annual Academy Awards will take place this year on February 26. There’s still time to catch up on your reading – while everyone else is rushing to theaters to get in every last movie before the big night. What to read before the 2012 Oscars? Here’s a literary look at the nominees.
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Still Currently Reading: The Hours
This book deals with one of my greatest fears.
The women in the novel are loved. They are taken care of. They have families. They have careers, the housewife included.
Except none of them are happy. They try hard to be, but none of them are and they feel as though they should be.
And that’s my biggest fear - getting everything I desire and dream of and resenting and despising it. Ever...
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Just Finished: 1Q84
925 pages later, here I am.
I’ve talked to so many people about this book. I’ve freaked out over it. I’ve had stomachaches from it. I’ve cried here and there.
And now it’s over.
Sometimes there is nothing more depressing than finishing a book. “It’s very difficult to logically explain the illogical.”
There is no way to summarize this book....
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You know you're an English major when...
My BFF (while trying on a dress): I look like an 1800’s orphan. Me: OMG. YOU DO. YOU SHOULD BE HELEN BURNS FOR HALLOWEEN.
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Currently Reading: The Hours
Confession: I’ve seen the movie multiple times and never read the book.
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“It’s the wanting to know that makes us matter.”
– Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
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“When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself...”
– Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
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Just Finished: Arcadia
This is a quick, drive-by post on this text, but I haven’t had much time to keep up with this lately. I’m trying to post something every day though because I know if I don’t, I’ll stop updating this completely.
Now on to Arcadia…
This is the first I’ve read of Stoppard. It was a very interesting read - witty, smart, romantic, sensual, etc. and effortlessly...
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Haunted By The Handmaid's Tale →
One of the best books - ever.
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Bookish news and publishing tidbits 20 January... →
readinasinglesitting:
Your daily publishing update
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Currently Reading: Arcadia
This is the first text for my Contemporary British Literature course. I’ve only read the first act, so I’m not quite sure what to think yet.
It’s interesting though. And funny. And the definition of carnal embrace will stick with me forever.
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“It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via curiouscharisma)
Lovelovelove.
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“When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out - that’s the...”
– 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
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Some Days...
I just want to read everything on my bookshelf at the exact same time.
And it’s completely unfair that I can’t.
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“And as Anton Chekhov said, once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired at...”
– 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
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“I miss your everything.”
– The Boy