March 11, 2012
moleculess: Augustus by Charlotte Zissou on Flickr.

moleculess:

Augustus by Charlotte Zissou on Flickr.

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March 1, 2012
"and why would Caesar fear Ovid, except for knowing that neither his divinity nor all his legions could protect him from a good line of poetry."

—

old school, tobias wolff

i hate to be that english major, but it’s been a while since i’ve read a novel that i wholeheartedly love as a novel, and not as a world i wish to enter or a set of characters i wish to meet, that was published since 1970. but this one really got me. tobias wolff, you have done it. hats off to you, sir.

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February 17, 2012

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February 16, 2012
"You didn’t care, so I went on and on dancing alone, and no matter what happens, I still know in my heart that it is a godless and dirty game, that love is bitter and all there is."

— Zelda Fitzgerald to F. Scott, 1930 (via slippery-words)

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January 28, 2012
"This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have."

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In 1944 a children’s book club sent a volume about penguins to a 10-year-old girl, enclosing a card seeking her opinion.

She wrote this.

American diplomat Hugh Gibson called it the finest piece of literary criticism he had ever read.

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January 16, 2012
"I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs."

— zelda fitzgerald

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December 29, 2011
"I must be the worst person to ask this question — I always hate films of books, because movies by the necessities of their form change things and leave things out. If I don’t like a book, I’m unlikely to see the movie, and if I do like the book then I almost always think the movie spoils it. The same goes whether it’s a book for children or adults. I think movies should do what they’re good at and stick to original stories, or use short work or plays as their inspirations. The only exception to this is William Goldman’s “The Princess Bride."

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jo walton, this article

i agree, up to a point.

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December 29, 2011
it’s just me

is it just me, or is noah the new go-to name in the ya romance scene? gone the days of dashing jacks and noble wills! onto the era of lackluster biblical references!

(i just finished the unbecoming of mara dyer. let’s just say i was less than impressed.)

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December 14, 2011
"writers and whores. i see no differences here."

— salman rushdie, the satanic verses

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September 5, 2011
betterbooktitles: Kathryn Stockett: The Help Reader Submission: Title by Paleozoic shark-studier, Mike Fath. lollin all the way home. good thing i didn’t even read this book.

betterbooktitles:

Kathryn Stockett: The Help

Reader Submission: Title by Paleozoic shark-studier, Mike Fath.

lollin all the way home. good thing i didn’t even read this book.

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