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"Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the..."

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 16:49:08 -0400

“Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before.”

- Cornelia Funke, Inkheart (via excessivebookshelf)

The 6 Most Certifiably Insane Acts of Writing | Cracked.com

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:49:42 -0400

The 6 Most Certifiably Insane Acts of Writing | Cracked.com

'Harry Potter' Periodic Table Of Elements: The 117 Elements Known To Wizards

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:19:36 -0400

'Harry Potter' Periodic Table Of Elements: The 117 Elements Known To Wizards

The Reading Lists of your Favorite Fictional Characters

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:08:00 -0400

The Reading Lists of your Favorite Fictional Characters:

If you’ve ever seen Gilmore Girls, there’s a pretty good chance you know that Rory Gilmore is as big a bookworm as they come — maybe that’s why we’ve always liked her so much. Recently, we stumbled on this exhaustive list of all the books Rory has read, and after we caught our breath (there’s some two hundred and fifty books on there!) we decided to compile a few more of the books we’ve noticed some of our favorite fictional characters reading — so as to follow along, of course. Click through to see what books Don Draper, Margot Tenanbaum, and Daria Morgendorffer have been occupying themselves with recently, and let us know if we’ve missed your favorite fictional bookworm in the comments!

Here Are the 1960s Science Fiction Novels Everyone Should Read

Thu, 24 May 2012 16:24:00 -0400

Here Are the 1960s Science Fiction Novels Everyone Should Read

thehealthywarrior: DATE A GIRL WHO READSby Rosemarie...

Fri, 18 May 2012 22:48:00 -0400

thehealthywarrior:

DATE A GIRL WHO READS
by Rosemarie Urquico
(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 wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes.

Wuthering Heights cover art by Robert McGinnis.

Sun, 13 May 2012 19:51:25 -0400

Wuthering Heights cover art by Robert McGinnis.

txtsfromthedead: Submitted by eatallthecheese.

Thu, 10 May 2012 16:13:50 -0400

txtsfromthedead:

Submitted by eatallthecheese.

libraryjournal: thetinhouse: (via What If Your Favorite Album...

Thu, 10 May 2012 14:00:42 -0400

libraryjournal:

thetinhouse:

(via What If Your Favorite Album Was a Book? | Mother Jones)

PURPLE RAIN

No such thing…

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:00:32 -0400

No such thing…

bookmania: “Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:59:02 -0400

bookmania:

“Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos (Photo by Kyle Thompson)

Peeta: WE COULD HAVE HAD IT ALL

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:32:27 -0400

Peeta: WE COULD HAVE HAD IT ALL
Katniss: Peeta, stop
Peeta: ROLLING IN THE WHEAT

Need a fantasy fix? The Walking Dead (Comic Book 1), Spell...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:33:00 -0400

Need a fantasy fix?

The Walking Dead (Comic Book 1), Spell Bound (Hex Hall, Book 3) by Rachel Hawkins, and Infamous (Chronicles of Nick, Book 3) by Sherrilyn Kenyon

The Walking Dead (Comic Book 2), Wander Dust (Seraphina Parrish Trilogy, Book 1) by Michelle Warren, Purity by Jackson Pearce, Kill Me Softly by Sarah Cross, and The Fault in our Stars by John Green

kabum: Harry Potter and The Walking Dead (via Walking Dead Br.)

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:28:18 -0400

kabum:

Harry Potter and The Walking Dead (via Walking Dead Br.)

The Banned Books We Have Loved From The Atlantic Wire

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:06:00 -0400

The Banned Books We Have Loved
From The Atlantic Wire

Harlem Renaissance Elizabeth Catlett Passes: “She was...

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:35:00 -0400

Harlem Renaissance Elizabeth Catlett Passes: “She was really a trailblazer.”

Ride on!

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:18:13 -0400

Ride on!

Hope Larson reveals cover, release date for her A Wrinkle in Time adaptation.

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:37:00 -0400

Hope Larson reveals cover, release date for her A Wrinkle in Time adaptation.:

6 Books Everyone (Including Your English Teacher) Got Wrong | Cracked.com

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:57:27 -0400

6 Books Everyone (Including Your English Teacher) Got Wrong | Cracked.com

Amazon.com: The Kenyon Review(Free Exclusive Digest Edition): Kindle Store: The Kenyon Review

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:02:00 -0400

Amazon.com: The Kenyon Review(Free Exclusive Digest Edition): Kindle Store: The Kenyon Review:

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