May 2012
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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)
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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
April 2012
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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
Illness serves as a corrective: one emerges from it sober but diminished. One...
– Altered States by Anita Brookner
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...
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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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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.
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Weight and body oppression is oppressive to everyone. When you live in a society...
– Golda Poretsky (via feminishblog)
So true.
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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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