September 2010
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“You must look at all the girls who pass your way. Don’t stare at them,...”
– Be More Chill, Ned Vizzini
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I found this book among dusty and worn out gems in a secondhand bookstore. I tend to enjoy torturing myself for some reason by reading novels that I know will make me bawl my eyes out and this one did just that. It is essentially about a girl named Lois, who receives a book called The Manual when she’s twelve years old. It is a book written by her father, who passed away when she was only...
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Jeremy Heere is your average high school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the girl he can never have, and dryly notes the small defeats that come his way…until he gets a “squip.”
A supercomputer in pill form, the squip communicates directly with your brain to make you cool. By instructing Jeremy on what to wear, how to talk, and who to ignore, the squip...
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“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing...”
– Anais Nin
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“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a...”
– Victor Hugo
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“A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable...”
– Jorge Luis Borges
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“You grow up readin’ about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus’...”
– Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (via enchanting, lostboyfromthelostweekend) (via suzywire) (via booklover) (via teachingliteracy)
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“If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
– Looking for Alaska by John Green
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New Roald Dahl book! →
clueless-librarian:
The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets to be published in September
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Have lemonade, need books →
teachingliteracy:
clueless-librarian:
An article about a boy who sold lemonade to buy Mo Willems books for the public library.
[via @The_Pigeon twitter feed]
Dear Hanna,
Check this out :)
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“It’s not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There’s a...”
– Haruki Murakami, After Dark (via distantheartbeats)
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“I started to go to the library, devouring every book I could lay my hands on....”
– South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Murakami
I love how every protagonist of Murakami’s is an avid reader.
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“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who...”
– Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
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“She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond...”
– Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (via liquidnight)
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“In fiction, the spark we’re searching for isn’t reality so much as a...”
– Dan Chaon
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“Maggie wakes and sleeps like an animal—quickly, with almost no warning. I want...”
– Barb Johnson, “The Invitation” (via fwriction)
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“We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.”
– Christopher Lehmann
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Orchards of Unusual Possibilities
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya is among the world’s most controversial writers as she continues to cast her spells and stupefy her readers.
This collection of deliciously disturbing short stories successfully venture into the dark recesses of the human mind. The author showcases the cold harsh reality of living in a world that is fueled by hate, jealousy, poverty, and fear. These nineteen short...
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20 Neil Gaiman facts
Neil Gaiman once wrote a Nebula-winning story using only the middle row of his keyboard.
Harper Collins has taken out a 2.5 million dollar insurance policy on Neil Gaiman’s accent.
If you write 1000 words and Neil Gaiman writes 1000 words, Neil Gaiman has written more than you.
Neil Gaiman does not use Microsoft’s grammar-check. Microsoft uses a Gaiman-check.
Neil Gaiman once did the New...
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Danny Noonan was just another twentysomething loser with a dead-end job and a go-nowhere band until he met Sadie, the wild-child daughter of a twisted tycoon whose private perversions are the only things deadlier than his hired guns.
Now Danny’s a twentysomething loser with a dead-end job in New York City - and Sadie is wilder than ever, thanks to a bullet in her brain that’s blown...
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“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I...”
– Joss Whedon
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“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent...”
– Marcel Proust (via lotusohm)
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