November 2010
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“Whenever in my dreams I see the dead, they always appear silent, bothered,...”
– Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov
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“People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with...”
– Neil Gaiman
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100 Notable Books of 2010 - NYTimes.com →
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“Where do we keep all our chainsaws, Mom?”
– Calvin
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“Well, anagrams say something about the malleability of language. We always think...”
– John Green
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“In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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"I'm starting to think this Prince character was a...
Most of us have started reading the Harry Potter series when we were kids and as we gradually grew into our older versions, along with it came our refusal to acknowledge the fact that our favorite characters have grown up as well. But grow up they did and their problems have escalated as a consequence. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince begins in a maudlin tone as Harry wrestles with a...
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“The world was full of holes, tiny apertures of meaninglessness, microscopic...”
– The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster
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"The world isn't split into good people and Death...
I knew what I was getting into when I read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I knew that it would be intense and I knew that something wrong was going to happen. I was a mess after Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire because of what happened towards the end and it took me a while to pick up the fifth book because I was mildly depressed. I think that it has been established that I suck...
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See you at The Triwizard Tournament
By the time I was finished with Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, I was so thoroughly enthralled with the series that when I got my hands on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, I faked illness to skip class in order to read it. My parents knew what was up the whole time. Like the first three, I read it quickly and without pause.
The Goblet of Fire was a pivotal book in the series for...
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“I turn page after quiet page, but I’ve stopped seeing the letters, stopped...”
– Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson
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The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.: Chuck... →
fuckyeschuckpalahniuk:
Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Fight Club, Choke, and Pygmy, slays topics like anarchy, terrorism, and serial killing with dissolute abandon. His new book, Tell-All, leaves sociopathic characters behind for even scarier prey—the celebrities of Hollywood. Delving into cutthroat star…
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“They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be...”
– Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen
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British guys reading out loud from classic novels →
loveandliterature:
awritersruminations:
theepitomeofquiet:
listening to dominic west read pride and prejudice to me. why yes, i am having a good morning, thank you.
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“Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the...”
– 1984, George Orwell
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“It’s true. I never brought you a bouquet of sonnets, or served you haiku in bed....”
– The Benjamin Franklin of Monogamy, Jeffrey McDaniel
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“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a...”
– Neil Gaiman
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“There are stories within stories, whispered in ears in the quiet of the night,...”
– Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman
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