February 2012
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Hi everyone or, why I've been failing at posting
So I know I’ve been seriously sucking at keeping my blog updated. I’ve got like three blog posts I need to write and I’ve basically just need to take the time to go ahead and type them up (thankfully tomorrow I have my horrible class about technology so I can probably update then) but the reason I haven’t yet is that my final CSET is in two Saturdays. I’m not feeling...
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Book 8: Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler and...
Why We Broke Up - Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman
This book is seriously amazing. Formatted as a long letter to an ex-boyfriend, Why We Broke Up explores a relationship and how each good or bad moment contributed to the end of the relationship. Not only is the story fantastic, but the illustrations are also amazing.
I highly recommend this book.
4.5 stars out of 5
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aparadoxinflux replied to your post: aparadoxinflux replied to your post: Day 18: Book…
YESSS Tobias! He was my favorite, too! Although my favorite favorite books in the Animorphs world were the Hork Bajir Chronicles. Man, those books were freaking AMAZING
I loved the Hork Bajir Chronicles!! So good.
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aparadoxinflux replied to your post: Day 18: Book you’re most embarrassed to say you like
YESSSSSSS ANIMORPHS. Who was your favorite??
haha I love them all! Probably Tobias (he was certainly my favorite in the TV series - so cute!) and Marco (so sarcastic!)
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Day 19: Book that turned you on
Summer Sisters -Judy Blume
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Day 18: Book you’re most embarrassed to say you...
I don’t think I’m really embarrassed by any of the books I like. If I like a book, I own up to it. I will convince you any day of the week that the Animorphs series is a fantastic book series. Embarrassment isn’t something I’ve ever felt while holding a book.
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Day 17: Shortest book you’ve read
Oh man.
Probably some typical children’s book. I have no idea if this is the shortest… but we’ll go with it because it’s an amazing children’s book
The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood
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In which we discover (again) that Lily is awful at daily posts.
Sorry everyone.
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“For you, I was a chapter. For me, you were the book.”
– Tom McNeal (via buried-sunshine)
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Watchaparadoxinflux:
jaxofspades:
LEIGH. LAUREN MAC. IVY. WATCH THIS NOW.
WOOOOO! BEN SAMUEL! GUYS GUYS GUYS CHECK IT OUT!
(For all of you who have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about, the guy who plays Ben, the volunteer, is my friend Ben Samuel who did theater at UCSC and is there right now doing grad school in computer science and HOLY CRAP BEN CONGRATS!!)
Yay Ben!!!!
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Runaways Cafe II by Marilyn Hacker
For once, I hardly noticed what I ate (salmon and broccoli and Saint-Veran). My elbow twitched like jumping beans; sweat ran into my shirtsleeves. Could I concentrate on anything but your leg against mine under the table? It was difficult, but I impersonated an adult looking at you, and knocking back the wine. Now that we both want to know what we want, now that we both want to know what we...
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The Illiterate by William Meredith
Touching your goodness, I am like a man Who turns a letter over in his hand And you might think that this was because the hand Was unfamiliar but, truth is, the man Has never had a letter from anyone; And now he is both afraid of what it means And ashamed because he has no other means To find out what it says than to ask someone.
His uncle could have left the farm to him, Or his parents...
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In Love, His Grammar Grew by Stephen Dunn
In love, his grammar grew rich with intensifiers, and adverbs fell madly from the sky like pheasants for the peasantry, and he, as stated as they were, lolled under shade trees until roused by moonlight and the beautiful fraternal twins and and but. Oh that was when he knew he couldn’t resist a conjunction of any kind. One said accumulate, the other was a doubter who loved the wind and the...
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Valentine by Tom Pickard
simplicity say sleep or shall we shower have an apple you are as I need water shall I move? do you dream? shallow snow flesh melt this
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The Shampoo by Elizabeth Bishop
The still explosions on the rocks, the lichens, grow by spreading, gray, concentric shocks. They have arranged to meet the rings around the moon, although within our memories they have not changed. And since the heavens will attend as long on us, you’ve been, dear friend, precipitate and pragmatical; and look what happens. For Time is nothing if not amenable. The shooting stars in your...
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You and I Saw Hawks Exchanging the Prey by James...
They did the deed of darkness In their own mid-light. He plucked a gray field mouse Suddenly in the wind. The small dead fly alive Helplessly in his beak, His cold pride, helpless. All she receives is life. They are terrified. They touch. Life is too much. She flies away sorrowing. Sorrowing, she goes alone. Then her small falcon, gone. Will not rise here again. Smaller than she, he goes Claw...
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The Rain by Robert Creeley
All night the sound had come back again, and again falls this quiet, persistent rain. What am I to myself that must be remembered, insisted upon so often? Is it that never the ease, even the hardness, of rain falling will have for me something other than this, something not so insistent- am I to be locked in this final uneasiness. Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain,...
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Gift of the Book by C.D. Wright
lights go off all over rhode island everyone falls into bed I stay awake reading rereading the long-awaited prose of your body stunned
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syntax by Maureen N. McLane
and if I were to say
I love you and I do love you
and I say it now and again
and again would you say
parataxis would you see
the world revolves anew
its axis you
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Day 16: Longest book you’ve read
The Norton Anthology of English Literature
It’s 3956 pages total.
I’m pretty sure it’s the longest I’ve read.
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Day 14: Book whose main character you want to...
Will Parry - His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Atticus Fitch - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Book #7: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
You know, this book got a LOT of flack when it came out last year. This was my second reading of the book, and I still hold to my original assessment: Suzanne Collins did the only thing she could do with the series. She stayed true to the tone of the series. I’m not a mega fan of the series, and I personally find Katniss a bit nauseating, but I appreciate the difficult and brave choices...
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Book #6: The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Pearl - John Steinbeck
I read this because a student of mine is reading it, and I wanted to make sure that I knew the story. I really hated Steinbeck in school - I didn’t like his long sentences, and his focus on seemingly mundane things… and I just wasn’t really ready for him back in 10th grade. BUT! I really enjoyed The Pearl. I read it in one night (at 90 pages, it...
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Day 15: First “chapter book” you can remember...
I don’t really remember, but it was probably:
Animorphs #1: The Invasion - K.A. Applegate
some Babysitters Club book?
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Day 13: Book whose main character is most like you
Oh man. I hate these questions. I’m not like a book character. There are characters I wish I could be like, or that have qualities I wish I had, but I can’t think of any that are particularly like me.
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Day 12: Book that is most like your life
I don’t know! I like thinking that books aren’t like my life, and really, that’s why I enjoy them. Books are the ultimate escape for me.
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Book #5: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
Reread. Just as good the second time.
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Prop 8 ruled unconstitutional →
oldfilmsflicker:
Huzzah!
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thespacesamidlove replied to your post: Day 9: Book that makes you sick
I have a nonsensical urge to look up what that paragraph might be, but I’m resisting.
Oh man. You would really like this book. You should definitely read it.
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murmurandshout replied to your post: Day 8: A book that scares you
Oh no! That’s too bad you had to read it that way because it’s really good.
I might reread it one of these days, but honestly the thought still freaks me out a little bit.
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book #4: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
This is the second time I’ve read the book and I like it just as much as I did the first time.
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Day 11: Book from your favorite author
The Chronicles of the Cheysuli series - Jennifer Roberson
I want to highlight my favorite (underrated) Fantasy author on this post (since so much of Pullman and Rowling have already appeared on this challenge). Roberson’s series feature bad ass female characters and are simply perfection. Some people speak Elvish - I can speak Cheysuli.
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Day 10: Book that changed your life
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
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Day 9: Book that makes you sick
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender
This book is fantastic. I love this book. However, there is one paragraph about ten pages from the end that I will never recover from. I read this book last June, and even typing this is creeping my out. I highly recommend this book.
The Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer
No comment.
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“Ha. Ha. I know the alphabet!”
– My dad, singing the alphabet song, while drunk.
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“I don’t want tap water, because Archie Bunker says that tap water is shit!”
– My Dad, drunk
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“…I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903 in Letters to a Young Poet (via quitelikearthurdent)
“I’ve often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (Interview with Playboy, 1973)