June 2009
2 posts
May 2009
19 posts
Up Next: The Soloist
by Steve Lopez
“Just up the hill, Disney Hall is a great landed ship with mercury sails, a...”
– Steve Lopez, The Soloist
“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too...”
– Irwin Shaw (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no...”
– Christopher Morley (via beautifuldefinition)
'The Help' by Kathryn Stockett →
delusionsofadaydreamer:
Added to the ever-expanding Wish List
This was added to my ever-growing pile when my aunt gave it back to my mom.
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
– Cicero
I may have a pile of books in my room but...
…anybody have some for me?
April 2009
19 posts
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get...”
– Mortimer J. Adler (via thresca) (via quote-book)
Stranger to the Rain - Children of Eden
So...
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the...”
– James Baldwin (via thresca) (via quote-book)
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most...”
– Charles W. Eliot
“I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having...”
– Samuel in East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most...”
– Charles W. Eliot (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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Lists, lists, lists...
In the true fashion of procrastination I looked up a few book lists and figured out how many books of these lists I have read. It’s given me a lot a good ideas since these lists kicked my ass:
Time Magazine All-Time 100 Novels - Read count: 12
Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels - Read count: 9
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - Read count: 25
Rainy Sundays
I love rainy days when you can just curl up with a good book and read. Even better when you and friends all curl up with books on the same dorm bed and just read.
Although now, as it is Sunday, I must switch from East of Eden to Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma so I’ll be ready for class tomorrow.
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“I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents. Some you can...”
– East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
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So Far This Semester
I like how I measure time in semesters instead of saying “So Far This Year.”
Anyways, my reading has consisted of (in my nice orderly list):
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
Rebel Angels - Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing - Libba Bray
Wesley the Owl - Stacey O’Brien
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
Catch-22 ended up being almost a...
Keeping Sane
So despite having gone through nearly my entire first year of college I have still managed to keep a book on my pseudo-nightstand which simply appalls everybody I talk to about what I’m reading. When I inform them the book I’m talking about is a “fun” read the response is nearly, almost always, “I don’t have time to read for fun.”
Well I thought about it...