January 2012
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Unwinding from a long work day by reading at a bar...
Why am I always reading in bars??
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Guys: I found another 30 day book challenge that I...
Expect daily posts for the next 30 days!
A list of the days is after the cut!
Day 1: Favorite book Day 2: Least favorite book Day 3: Book that makes you laugh out loud Day 4: Book that makes you cry Day 5: Book you wish you could live in Day 6: Favorite young adult book Day 7: Book that you can quote/recite Day 8: Book that scares you Day 9: Book that makes you sick Day 10: Book that...
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“Why don’t you tell me that “if the girl had been worth having, she’d have waited...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via thecoolofnight)
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Burns Night at Normans Kil
atomic-trees:
I now have an awesome holiday to celebrate every January. Robert Burns. Burns Night. Google it.
ODE TO A HAGGIS
Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great Chieftan o’ the Puddin-race! Aboon them a’ ye tak your place, Painch, tripe, or thairm: Weel are ye wordy of a grace As lang’s my arm
The groaning trencher there ye fill, Your hurdies like a distant hill, You pin wad help to mend...
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“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
– William Blake (via anidridecarbonica)
“In an effort to get people to look
into each other’s eyes more,
and also to...”
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The Quiet World, by Jeffrey McDaniel
(via thespacesamidlove)
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Today is my 2 year Tumblr-versary!
Thank you, everyone, for reading my blog! It doesn’t matter if you’ve been here from the very beginning or right now - I appreciate you. Thank you so much for making this experience worthwhile! You guys are so awesome!
“Ed, it was wonderful. To stutter through it with you or even stop stuttering and...”
– Why We Broke Up, by Daniel Handler (via thespacesamidlove)
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“Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
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“If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
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“Just because you’re an atheist, that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t love for things...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
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“I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
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“I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close ― Jonathan Safran Foer
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“I thought about life, about my life, the embarrassments, the little...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
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“Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
“I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
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Finally!!
Forcing myself to put down Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Looks like my dry spell has ended - I’m on page 108!
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thespacesamidlove replied to your post: thespacesamidlove replied to your post:…
Yeah, it was such a weird time in my life. I only got back into reading by reading some silly teen novel that I honestly can’t recall.
Hmmm maybe I should try that route. I have all the Animorph books (not that those are teen novels, but they are pretty silly). I feel empty without reading.
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On America, Islam, and the Signing Line
fishingboatproceeds:
So I’ve just gotten back to the hotel after an amazing night at the Atlanta stop on the Tour de Nerdfighting. More than 800 people came out to Agnes Scott College, and it was fun and exhausting and everyone was lovely etc.
Whenever you meet 800 people in four or five hours, you’re going to say some stupid things (I’m sure I said many tonight), but tonight I outdid myself in...
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My theme is driving me crazy.
I hate tumblr’s stupid theme stuff.
I just want to put in my custom html, guys.
Ugh!
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So I've decided that Extremely Loud and Incredibly...
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thespacesamidlove replied to your post: murmurandshout replied to your post: I seem to be…
After I read Great House by Nicole Krauss I literally didn’t read for three months.
Oh god. That is incredibly bittersweet. I don’t know if I could handle that.
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murmurandshout replied to your post: I seem to be suffering from Post- TFiOS Depression. I haven’t been able to read a book for fun since finishing TFiOS.
I haven’t read TFiOS, but this happens to me sometimes after reading something that I really REALLY loved. I think Oh Pure and Radiant Heart and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union were the last two, read in 2008 and 2009, so it doesn’t happen...
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I seem to be suffering from Post- TFiOS...
Everything else would just pale in comparison, I think.
Is anyone else suffering from this disease?
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murmurandshout replied to your post: So much tumblr love!
Here’s another one!
Aww! Thank you! :)
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New followers!
Thank you! You guys are awesome :]
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So much tumblr love!
So you guys are the best! Seriously!
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thespacesamidlove replied to your photoset: TFIOS!!! I GOT THE PURPLE J-SCRIBBLE!
Just so you know, you tagged this post as TiFIOS instead of TFiOS. And I finished it last night at 3am after starting at midnight, and it was excellent. :)
Thank you! I fixed it :]
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Tumblr!
So many Cute Handsome Bookseller updates! But! I’m going to make you wait before I type it all up :]
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Today at work
I managed to convince a sobbing 8 year old that she was smart and that the word “llama” messes everyone up. I told her that since I was older than her, I had more wisdom and knew what I was talking about: I waited until she looked in my eyes, and then I simply said, “You are smart.” After walking her through the pronunciation of “llama,” I told her to do two...
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Book #3: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
So. TFiOS. I just… I don’t know how to eloquently talk about this book.
It’s Fucking Good.
This book convinced me that John Green is secretly the most insightful human being ever. His narrator is a 16 year old female. John Green is NOT a 16 year old female*. And yet, he seems to understand the plight that is nerdy girls better than anyone else seems to.
I got my copy at...
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Calypso - Suzanne Vega
My name is Calypso And I have lived alone I live on an island And I waken to the dawn A long time ago I watched him struggle with the sea I knew that he was drowning And I brought him into me Now today Come morning light He sails away After one last night I let him go. My name is Calypso My garden overflows Thick and wild and hidden Is the sweetness there that grows My hair it blows long As I...
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I finished The Fault in Our Stars. And now I have...