January 2011
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“Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that...”
– Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose (via whabam)
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“Bastion looked at the book.
‘I wonder,’ he said to himself, ‘what’s in a book...”
– Michael Ende (The Neverending Story)
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“I hate the notion of genre, because I think it stonewalls the reading...”
– Beatrice.com » Caroline Leavitt: Literary Can Be Commercial & Vice Versa (via bookladysblog)
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“[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen...”
– Ray Bradbury, Farewell Summer: A Novel (via liquidnight)
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“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you’ll take my book when you pry...”
– Stephen King (via thechocolatebrigade)
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The Atlantic: The Mystique of Betty Friedan →
nprfreshair:
The Atlantic, September 1999. See also: New York Times book review of The Feminine Mystique, September 1963. Chapter 1, The Feminine Mystique.
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“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
– Isabel Allende (via apotfullofink)
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New Book Releases: Week of January 18, 2011 →
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prettybooks: Dystopian Novels →
prettybooks:
The young-adult (YA) dystopian list was quite popular (although people kept throwing in non-YA books in there too) and so I thought I’d add another list! You can never have too many books, after all… Here are some popular ones:
The Stand 1984 Brave New World Brand New Worlds Animal…
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“There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which...”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (via kleir)
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“Read everything that you can in order to gain knowledge. You should read at...”
– MARCUS GARVEY
(via brandibates)
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“I want my books to have their own shelves,” you said, and that’s how I knew it...”
– David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary (via notwritenow)
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