January 2012
145 posts
sheliesandsayshesinlovewithhim:
My love affair with books began at the tender age of 4. My mum gave me a book ‘Girls Can Be Anything’ and it lit a flame inside of me. Along with the empowerment that I could be whoever I wanted to be, I learned early on that reading would open up my world.
I have read thousands of books. Trashy romance novels, historical fiction, crime novels, medical textbooks,...
Today I bought two books at a library sale, two...
“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all...”
– Roahld Dahl (via golightlywannab)
ihavamustache:
that floundering moment when you finish a book and then don’t know how to proceed with your life, because youve spent the past few days inexonerably wrapped up in all the excruciating and exhilarating details someone else’s
I love watching my bookmark progress through a...
“I couldn’t live a week without a private library - indeed, I’d part with all my...”
– H.P Lovecraft (via theblogisalie)
“I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something...”
– J.K. Rowling (via kerryquotesquotes)
Backstage Days: Books, books, books →
backstagedays:
I have a bad habit of reading several books at the same time and switching between them. I’ve just started 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. I love his books they are so wonderfully weird, you never know what’s coming but they are also beautifully written and capture the human spirit so well.. I also have…
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On Why I Like To Read.
We received this letter from Carmel, a reader of ours from the Philippines.
I’m a follower of your Tumblr, but I don’t have a Tumblr account. I have a Blogspot instead.
I’ve always been an introvert. I’ve always been by myself, and I only have a few friends—those I know I have known deeply, and have shared secrets and about my life with. The rest of society...
“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my...”
– Michel de Montaigne (via fearfullymade-locs)
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
joyfulchild:
Book #4 of 2012. I’m actually going to keep count of how many books I read this year. :) So this book was good, at first one of the Will Graysons was annoying with all his complaining, depression, hating life and what not but I got to see how he grew and changed. And that’s what I liked how throughout the whole book he changed, it might not have been quick but he changed for the...
“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things...”
– Julian Barnes (via chroniccheesylust)
That feeling you get when reading that makes you...
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Books!
siriuslyslytherin:
I read The Magicians and its sequel, The Magician King by Lev Grossman.
They were odd but good, and apparently the books have been optioned for a Fox television show. Cool cool cool.
Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. He’s a senior in high school, and a certifiable genius, but he’s still secretly obsessed with a series of fantasy novels he read as a kid, about...
“The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts...”
– Anthony Trollope (via bibliophilia-rampant)
Guess what I found waiting for me when I got back...
what-about-kayla:
^ those!
I bought the whole set on eBay for $46 (plus $4 shipping). Amazon’s asking price was $103.95, and I didn’t really feel like explaining to my mom why I needed to spend a hundred bucks on books that weren’t school-related. When I was in middle school I was obsessed with this series, but never made it to “The End” for some bizarre reason that I can’t remember right...
“I am at the end of my rope. I am nauseated by life; it is insipid — without salt...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Repetition (via sunrec)
You know an author has done an amazing job when...
morbidmandy422:
did you ever read a book and when you’re done it’s like ‘whoa, epiphany’ and then it happens again and again and again. like if epiphanies were contagious i would be in quarantine. and maybe these epiphanies won’t stick (because sadly you do not have your very own versions of these characters, nor will you ever) but that doesn’t matter because right now right here they make you...
