Beach Book (by Alex Bramwell)
Beach Book (by Alex Bramwell)
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"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
I’ve read 18 of these, but a lot of them I read while I was 21, not before.
Yes, this is how I spend my time. And I don’t really have enough books for this to be necessary, but I did it anyways.
"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
Last week I made a list of book blogs on tumblr. You can see the list here.
It was not working temporarily, but it’s back and I added a fair bit to it. Since I’ve gotten a few requests to see it again, I thought I’d repost it. This list is very short compared to all the blogs that mainly focus on books, so if you are not on the list and should be write in my ask. If you ever want to look at this and can’t find it, there’s a link in my FAQ.
Day 3: A Book That Makes You Laugh Out Loud
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. You wouldn’t think that these books would be funny, but at times they are hilarious.
Some of my least favourites I had to read for school, so that might be why I disliked them so much. I had to read The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan for Children’s Lit, and I barely finished it.
I read Breaking Dawn on my own time, and I couldn’t stand it. I’m not going to go to into it, since a lot of what I think has been said a million times, but if vampires do not age at all and humans age at a normal rate, why would a half vampire/half human age so quickly? Am I just being dense and missing something?
Anyways, those are two books I will never reread.