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Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.

Ezra Pound (via disharmonious)

02/1/12

millionsmillions:

My first fiction of the year came on a friend’s recommendation: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing. Like me, my friend likes good young adult fiction and Octavian Nothing was one of the most unsettling stories about slavery in America I’ve ever read. If I’d picked it up when I was 10, I wouldn’t have slept for weeks afterward and to this day might still be calling it the best book I’ve ever read.

Kevin Hartnett’s Year in Reading.

My first fiction of the year came on a friend’s recommendation: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing. Like me, my friend likes good young adult fiction and Octavian Nothing was one of the most unsettling stories about slavery in America I’ve ever read. If I’d picked it up when I was 10, I wouldn’t have slept for weeks afterward and to this day might still be calling it the best book I’ve ever read.

Kevin Hartnett’s Year in Reading.

02/1/12

“There are times when friendship feels like running down a hill together as fast as you can, jumping over things, spinning around, and you don’t care where you’re going, and you don’t care where you’ve come from, because all that matters is speed, and the hands holding your hands.”

janbriela31:

Feed by MT Anderson.

I started re-reading it last night. My goal is to finish it by the end of the week :)

02/1/12

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Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing. Take an old pillow and lay it on the front lawn. Stab it with a big pointy knife. Again and again and again. Stab hard enough for the point of the knife to go into the ground. Stab until the pillow is gone and you are just stabbing the earth again and again, as if you want to kill it for continuing to spin, as if you are getting revenge for having to live on this planet day after day, alone.

Miranda July (No one belongs here more than you)

01/31/12

5. The Name of the Star | Maureen Johnson

ashleys50bookchallenge:

Completed: 26 January 2012

Summary: Aurora (Rory) Deveaux moves to London to go to a boarding school. She has an experience that turns out to be completely life changing— and scary. After this, nothing is the same. During her time in London, a string of Jack the Ripper copycat murders were happening, throwing London into a panic. Rory turns out to be the only witness to one of the murders, and this puts her in a dangerous place.

Quote: “I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things out. Annoy a Southerner, and we will drain away the moments of your life with our slow, detailed replies until you are nothing but a husk of your former self and that much closer to death.”

Review: This book was really excellent. It kept me reading, for sure. There are so many good things about it, I don’t even know where to start. It was funny, suspenseful, and scary at parts. It keeps you guessing, and wondering. You can really fall in love with the characters.

Rating: ★★★★☆