May 2012
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This was a post by Hanna, who has to be somewhere important tomorrow at six in the morning.
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The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan (an...
alfresco, adv. We couldn’t stand the city one minute longer, so we walked right into the rent-a-car place, no reservation, and started our journey upstate. As you drove, I called around, and eventually I found us a cabin. We stopped at a supermarket and bought a week’s worth of food for two nights. It wasn’t too cold out, so we moved the kitchen table outside. The breeze kept...
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This was a post by Hanna, who is listening to 69 Love Songs and currently reading this book.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of...
– Virginia Woolf
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Komatsu believed that mental acuity was never born from comfortable...
– 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
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And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the...
– T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock (excerpt)
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This was a post by Hanna, whose free time revolves around crime shows, detective stories, zombies, household chores, eating, and reading. She is currently reading this book.
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Neil Gaiman Shares His Reading Habits -... →
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Please don’t go. We’ll eat you up. We love you so.
– Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
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Maurice Sendak, Author of Splendid Nightmares,... →
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Neil Gaiman: Are You The Next Generation of... →
neil-gaiman:
From the questions, I think it’s a safe bet to assume there are a lot of young writers reading this Tumblr.
If you’re aged 18-25, and you write children’s fiction then you should check out the Hotkey Press (a new publisher, headed by Sarah Odedina, who was my editor, and J. K. Rowling’s, at…
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Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to...
– Groucho Marx
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Currently reading Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl. It happened when I was taking out 1Q84 from my gargantuan pile. I couldn’t help it. Her stories are so delicious.
This was a post by Hanna, who wants to eat.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
– Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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April 2012
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Day 17: Favorite quote from your favorite book
Kubi: ”I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
- The Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, Dune by Frank Herbert
Hanna:...
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Most of what makes a book “good” is that we are reading it at the...
– Alain de Botton
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This was highly recommended to me by the littlest sister and it has been positively delightful so far. Somehow, it makes me miss borrowing books from my school library when I was a kid.
This was a post by Hanna, who is about to have breakfast. She is currently reading this book.