May 2012
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 21st
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May 21st
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May 21st
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May 21st
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“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with...”
– CARL SAGAN (via Advice to Writers)
May 21st
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May 21st
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May 12th
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May 12th
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May 12th
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May 12th
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May 12th
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“I wish I were part of a large family circle and enjoyed it. I would like to fit...”
– Joseph Heller, Something Happened
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April 2012
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Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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January 2012
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“I had no family, and when you have no family you rely too much on your friends....”
– Altered States by Anita Brookner
Jan 3rd
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“Illness serves as a corrective: one emerges from it sober but diminished. One...”
– Altered States by Anita Brookner
Jan 2nd
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December 2011
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2011 in Books
I read 56 books this year, including 12 rereads (all of the Little House books and the last three Harry Potter books). That’s much higher than last year and I hope to continue reading as much, if not more, in 2012. I read quite a mix of books this year, from classics to newly published, from plays to autobiographies. I’m only listing the books that I read for the first time this...
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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“The primary reason to study Blake and Dickinson and Freud and Dickens is not to...”
– Mark Edmundson (1952- )
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Dec 11th
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“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my...”
– Michel de Montaigne (via libraryland) I run to Harry Potter and The Little House books.
Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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“Weight and body oppression is oppressive to everyone. When you live in a society...”
– Golda Poretsky (via feminishblog) So true.
Dec 11th
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“But there are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life,...”
– Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan (via suzywire)
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