October 2012
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“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that...”
– Jess C. Scott, The Intern (via bookmania)
February 2012
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If you run a book blog, I want to follow you!
writtenand-read:
Just like or reblog this post, and I’ll check you out!
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January 2012
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Book Lovers Needed! →
I signed up. Did you?
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thescienceofrealities:
English language did you knows.
Did you know the most commonly used letter in the alphabet is E
Did you know the least used letter in the alphabet is Q
Did you know skiing is the only word with double i
Did you know dreamt is the only word that ends in mt
Did you know the first letters of the months July through to November spell JASON
Did you know there are only 4...
“Bibliomaniac: A victim of the obsessive-compulsive neurosis characterized by a...”
– Maurice Dunbar (via hellyeahbooks)
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“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
– Albert Einstein (via physicsisdead)
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“The joy of bourbon drinking is not the pharmacological effect of the C2H5OH on...”
– Walker Percy in “Bourbon, Neat,” quoted by Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Since I first read this essay, when I was perhaps fourteen or fifteen years old, I have remembered that invaluable phrase precisely and used it on occasion: “hot bosky bite.”
For some time, I supposed —stupidly— that...
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I have giftcards for B&N. Recommend books, GO!
Depending on the kind of books you like to read I always suggest the following:
Anything Tolkein (most specifically the Lord of the Rings trilogy) The Dante Valentine or Kill Kismet novels by Lilith Saintcrow (And you can get all 5 Dante Valentine novels in one book for like 20 bucks at B&N rightnow!) The Hunger Games The Rachel Morgan Series by Kim Harrison To Kill a Mockingbird The Road by...
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heyyyitsjessica:
I just realized my second bookshelf is almost completely full… I don’t have enough room for another bookshelf.
I need to give my books their own room, thats the only logical thing I can come up with.
Haha.
And no, I won’t get rid of my books, they’re my babies.
I have the same problem… My husband asks why I don’t get rid of some of them, and I am like...
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Caedmon's Hymn
Original Anglo-Saxon:
Nu we sculon herigean heofonrices weard, meotodes meahte and his modgeþanc, weorc wuldorfæder, swa he wundra gehwæs, ece drihten, or onstealde. He ærest sceop eorðan bearnum heofon to hrofe, halig scyppend; þa middangeard moncynnes weard, ece drihten, æfter teode firum foldan, frea ælmihtig.
English Translation:
Now we must praise the...
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Neverland
They say it is where dreams are made Where Pirates roam the seas Crocodiles tick-tock Native Americans live without time Boys get lost Pixies glow Mermaids have their own lagoon And Peter can fly
It is a land of adventure A land of mystery A land where anything can happen It is beautiful It is dangerous It is where I belong
You can lose your shadow Rise from the dead But you must believe in...
“Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.”
– Laura Miller (via booksandnerds)
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in...”
–
F. Scott Fitzgerald
(via allons-ymeow)
