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gravity’s rainbow by maureen_sill on Flickr.
bookish-thoughts
gravity’s rainbow by maureen_sill on Flickr.
gonna have to keep this in mind with the next GF
(In Response to Charles Warnke’s You Should Date An Illiterate Girl.)
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she…
Whether that means linking to flickr or deviantart or only posting their own pictures, as far as I know these blogs never use weheartit or post anything uncredited. I’m sure I missed a lot, but here’s some.
Anonymous asked
Who do you consider as some of the greatest classical authors? And which classical books do you find really great? Because I'm really considering reading The Classics for a change, also because I think that to be a true bookworm, you have to have quite a good foundation on the classics, right? :)
This is really hard! I did a list a while back of choices for ‘your first classic’ of books that aren’t too hard to get into. I personally really like Jane Eyre and Jane Austen. I also think Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby are good places to start. But I definitely think you can be a true bookworm without having read classics! You’re already there.
Read the things people think you shouldn’t, prove you have an open mind.





Lately, I’ve loved books that reference different authors or books, and share themes, ideas or a plot with that classic.
In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren, in which book bloggers post about the books they’ve bought, borrowed or received in the past week.
Some new books! I ordered Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell and you can read the review here. I also bought some used books: The Colour Purple by Alice Walker, Atonement by Ian McEwan and Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. I already own Atonement, but this copy was 50 cents and I prefer it to my movie edition. My brother gave me some of his old books, which you can see here. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod and Restless Gods by Reginald W. Bibby.
The American Libraries Association are holding their 19th annual Banned Books Week and they are inviting the book lovers of the internet to join their Virtual Read Out! I’ll be posting videos through out the week and this blog will more or less be dedicated to Banned, Censored or Challenged books.
I was very lucky to have the freedom to read whatever I wanted to as a child and teen. That’s the driving force for me to join in the celebration; everyone should enjoy the freedom I have.
I’ve read 18 of these, but a lot of them I read while I was 21, not before.
"Books. People never really stop loving books. Fifty-first century. By now you’ve got holovids, direct-to-brain downloads, fiction mist. But you need the smell. The smell of books, Donna. Deep breath!"
— The Doctor, Doctor Who