Nose in a Book

kaypunx-deactivated20130708 asked

Can I recommend two books to you, and if you like them you can pass them along? I had to read them for my human services class, and they're so enlightening. I feel most people can benefit from them. They're relatively simple reads, shouldn't take more than a week each if you only read about 30 mins a day. They're The Quiet Room by Lori Schiller and Do I Know You? by Bette Ann Moskowitz.

Thank you for the recommendations! They both look very interesting and I added them to my to-read list on goodreads. 

Anonymous asked

Do you ever listen to music when you read? Or do you prefer it to be really quiet?

I used to, but lately I haven’t been bothering to put any music on. I don’t need silence to read though. 

fortunenotyetfaded-blog asked

hi :) have you read War and Peace? it's an overcast day so far, and it calls for a good read. unfortunately I have no hot tea with which to indulge :/

I haven’t, but I want to! I have a copy too, I just have never got around to it. It’s overcast here too, and a bit chilly, so I’m going to do the exact same thing (also without tea, but only because I don’t like it).

absynthe-words asked

you've read some great books, i'd like to recommend you one "Beach Music" by Pat Conroy, since you love great words and beautiful prose, I think you'll like it :)

Thanks so much, sounds awesome! I just added it to my to-read list on good reads.

Anonymous asked

lol i think that person meant books whose events take place solely over the course of one day, aha. looking for alaska and perks definitely don't fit that criteria. i'd be really curious of some that do now that that person mentions it lol :)

OH! I thought it was books to be read in a day, embarrassing. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (which I haven’t finished), After Dark by Haruki Murakami (another I haven’t read), Let It Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle (pretty much one day). 

It’s funny how I can’t think of more YA one, when so many teen movies take place in a 24-hour period. I think that Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier takes place in a short frame of time. 

Anonymous asked

For the person asking for modern classical lit, I recommend Catch-22, Brave New World, The Stranger, and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Thank you!