February 2012
8 posts
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Feb 17th
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Feb 17th
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Feb 17th
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Feb 16th
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“I collect books the way my friends collect designer handbags. Sometimes, I just...”
– Jennifer Kaufman & Karen Mack, Literacy and Longing in LA (via whimsicalimpertinence)
Feb 15th
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“Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via thegirlandherbooks)
Feb 13th
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If I could, I would read until the blood in my...
Truth.
Feb 7th
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Feb 7th
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January 2012
8 posts
Jan 30th
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Jan 24th
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books are there for me in ways people never have...
Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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“You know what I believe? I remember in college I was taking this math class,...”
– John Green (via julieheartsbooks)
Jan 19th
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December 2011
10 posts
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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“An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not...”
– Brandon Mull (via booksandnerds)
Dec 20th
175 notes
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 8th
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“Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There’s a strong streak of...”
– David Foster Wallace, 1996 (via sometimesagreatnotion) (via wordpainting) (via booklover)
Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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“I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss...”
– Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (via bookoasis)
Dec 1st
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Dec 1st
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Sometimes I see these pictures of beautiful places...
teachingliteracy: significant-insignificance
Dec 1st
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November 2011
12 posts
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the...”
– (via snitchmoon )
Nov 29th
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Nov 24th
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Nov 18th
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“She loved to read and did so quite uncritically, taking each book as a...”
– Invisible Circus, Jennifer Egan (via famousalmost)
Nov 9th
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Nov 9th
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Nov 9th
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“If reading has always been a journey of imagination, a means of escape, it has...”
– Stephanie Staal, Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life (via bookladysblog)
Nov 2nd
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Nov 2nd
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“It never bored them to hear words, words; they breathed them with the cool night...”
– E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (via awritersruminations)
Nov 2nd
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“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via bookstorecouture)
Nov 1st
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Nov 1st
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October 2011
6 posts
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“The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good...”
– ― Ashleigh Brilliant (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
Oct 27th
Oct 27th
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Oct 26th
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Oct 21st
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September 2011
12 posts
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Sep 14th
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Sep 14th
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Sep 14th
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Sep 13th
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Sep 13th
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Sep 8th
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