December 2011
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NPR's Best Books of 2011 →
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Free Online Class from Yale on Modern Poetry
pilgrimsoulinme:
Yale has its entire Modern Poetry course, taught by Langdon Hammer, here. I can’t afford to go back to school, so I thought this was a great structured alternative. Happy studying all!
It’s not totally nerd of me that I want to add this to my spring semester load, is it?
…Yeah, I didn’t think so either.
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“It’s just that you’re about to do something out of the...”
– 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
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Currently Reading: 1Q84
My rereading of The Great Gatsby was tossed aside for this book. I hadn’t realized the length and figured that I should try and put a good dent in it (or better yet, finish it) before spring semester begins.
This is my first Murakami novel, and I know it won’t be my last. I’m only a hundred pages in, but I’m already enthralled. The characters of Aomame and Tengo are so...
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Feel Free to Dog-Ear Your Pages →
Another pro-destroying books in favor of showing them love argument. I am firmly on team write/bend/underline/draw pictures/highlight, etc. Books need us to show them love.
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All The Cool People Write In Books →
I wrote a post about this a while ago, but came across this article tonight. Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson, Nelson Mandela - just a few people who wrote in their books. That’s some pretty good company to be in.
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Reality Obscure: Eight Rules for Writing Fiction: →
tumblrfiction:
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal…
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“Love is my insides all messed up.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via fleurishes)
Lovelovelove.
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Conversations with My Best Friend
I just told her, “I want to run away to Mexico and eat lots of tacos,” and she didn’t even act like it was an irrational desire.
This is why we are friends.
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All the bookshops are closing down around me.
talkingtostars:
This.
While Christmas shopping this year, I realized how few bookstores are around. Maybe it was the inconvenience of having to drive from one end of the city to the other to look for a book only for it not to be in stock and then to have to backtrack to another store in hopes of finding said book.
I don’t even know if that made sense. I’m just that distraught...
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“I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a...”
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Date A Girl Who Reads →
I’ve seen this popping up all over Tumblr. I can’t remember the last time a blog entry made me smile this wide. It’s pure truth and perfection in every way.
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Next Reading: The Great Gatsby
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
It’s been years since I’ve read this book. Seeing pictures from the film got me itching to read it, as did playing - and FINALLY beating - the game (www.greatgatsbygame.com).
I imagine there will be lots of Gatsby posts coming up.
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Just Finished: Prodigal Summer
“Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is world made new for the chosen.”
And so it ends.
Despite my love-hate relationship with this novel, I truly enjoyed the human connections, the complicated web that weaved all...
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“She is too fond of books and it has turned her brains.”
– Louisa May Alcott (via bibliophiling)
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To Do List
Jane Austen final paper
Drama paper on feminism/lack thereof in Greek theatre
Extra Credit paper for drama
Relearn an entire semester of French
Panic until final grades are in
Drink excessively if grades are bad/drink excessively if grades are good
Sleep
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Conversation with The Boy #2
The Boy: Looks my overclock is no longer fully stable.
Me: What is that?
The Boy: You know how they sell computers and say their processors are x gigahertz or whatever… Well overclocking refers to the…science?…of going into the computers core software and modifying voltages and speeds so it runs much faster than it was ever meant to.
Me: I’m going to learn lots from...
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Still Currently Reading: Prodigal Summer
He gave us the mystery of a word that can re-create itself again and again. To you the fruit shall be food, he’s saying, but just remember, to the tree it’s a child.
According to my Goodreads account, I’ve been reading this book since October 31st, which might as well have been a lifetime ago. I never take this long to read a book, but I’ve been battling my way through...
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The Rory Gilmore Book Challenge: 77/335
1984 by George Orwell
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Archidamian War by Donald Kagan T
he Art of Fiction by Henry...
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How I Write Essays
wowfunniestposts:
Introduction:
Body Paragraph #1:
Most of the Body:
The Final Body Paragraph:
Conclusion:
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Definitely me after writing papers for finals. Sometimes I think I’d rather have an exam.
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Conversation with The Boy
The Boy: (sends link about Higgs boson discovery) This makes me more excited than any other news I’ve heard in the past month. Me: Okay.
The Boy: I would say past several years but since they discovered neutrinos move faster than light last month that’s no longer possible.
Tumblr, I am dating my very own Leonard.
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Winter Break Reading List 2011
I’ve bought a lot of books this year. Like a ridiculous amount. My To Buy List is constantly growing, too. My goal is to read at least half, if not three-quarters of these books over break.
So without further adieu…
1. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver I’ve been reading this book since I started this Tumblr. It’s been a rough start, but I forced myself to read about...
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Mama Issues
I intended this blog to be about books, blogs, random things I’m reading, but little pieces of my life keep finding their way sprinkled in here and there.
My relationship with my mother is difficult. Non-existent. Heartbreaking. Frustrating. Hateful - at least on my end. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen her, maybe both for the number of conversations we’ve...
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To Do List
Jane Austen final paper
Drama paper on feminism/lack thereof in Greek theatre
Extra Credit paper for drama
Relearn an entire semester of French
Panic until final grades are in
Drink excessively if grades are bad/drink excessively if grades are good
Sleep
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Like whoa.
I’ve had the official girlfriend title for a week now. As in I am someone’s girlfriend. As in we had the talk and I didn’t hyperventilate and scare the living crap out of him and myself. As in he brought up the whole official status thing because I would never do that because boys are scary and I am insane and tend to freak out about this kind of thing.
Except I’m not...
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100 Best Lines From Novels →
I love when Jeopardy does this category. I rock it every time.
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The 7 Types of Book Lover →
I’m proudly 1, 2, and 6.
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manasto:
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery...
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The Year in Books →
I haven’t read any of these. This must change very soon.
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