February 2011
“The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it...”
– Elizabeth Hardwick
January 2011
I don’t know what to read next. I just finished reading The Passage by Justin Cronin and am working my way through Pillars of the Earth for one of my classes. I’m also in the midst of reading about America and Communism for an American History class. I need something entertaining, not too light but not too dark either. The Passage is still haunting me and I need to get the feeling it...
Walk While Reading: Two Quotes in One Article →
walkwhilereading:
“We should wonder why depression has become a disease. It is a disease of a society that is looking desperately for happiness, which we cannot catch. And so people collapse into themselves.”
“You can’t summon happiness like you summon a dog. We cannot master happiness, it cannot be the fruit…
“Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That...”
– George R. R. Martin, from A Game of Thrones. (via aubade)
This is on my list of books to read this year.
“She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with...”
– Roald Dahl, Matilda (via libraryland)
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only...”
– Audrey Hepburn
What was the NYT bestselling book during the week... →
prettybooks:
yesigrok:
Mine was Zoya by Danielle Steele (meh).
Second was Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (better!)
Mine was The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. Interesting :)
Trinity by Leon Uris was the bestseller the week I was born.
“My book-related resolution for 2011: To converse more with my books. To write in...”
– Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander and Paint it Black
“If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.”
– Katharine Hepburn
“We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books....”
– Cory Doctorow (via shereadeverything)
