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Bookshelf Solutions on Epic Reads →

This is a list of book shelves by need and cost. It’s absolutely wonderful!

Tagged: lists  book shelves  lit  
Posted 1 month ago with 67 notes
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History,” Stephen said, “is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
James Joyce, Ulysses
Posted 2 months ago with 41 notes

How a Book is Made →

New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver presents How a Book Is Made: The Spindlers. Go behind the scenes and follow the book publishing process from start to finish in a seven-video series for book lovers, students, and aspiring writers.

This is a really beautiful website. She doesn’t just talk about writing, but also the publishing of her books. I really love seeing how a book is put together like this.

Tagged: books  lit  
Posted 3 months ago with 109 notes

World Book Night is one of those amazing things that exists. Every year on April 23rd in the UK, US, and Germany books are given out by the hand full to light or non-readers. The reason for it I think is best said from their website:

Reading for pleasure improves literacy, actively engaging emerging readers in their desire to read. Reading changes lives, improves employability, social interaction, enfranchisement, and can have a positive effect on mental health and happiness. Book readers are more likely to participate in positive activities such as volunteering, attending cultural events, and even physical exercise.

The books to be given away:

  • The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
  • City of Thieves, David Benioff
  • Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
  • My Antonia, Willa Cather
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
  • The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
  • The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
  • The Language of Flowers, Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan
  • Bossypants, Tina Fey
  • Still Alice, Lisa Genova
  • Looking for Alaska, John Green
  • Playing for Pizza, John Grisham
  • Mudbound, Hillary Jordan
  • The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
  • Moneyball, Michael Lewis
  • The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer
  • Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley
  • Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life, James Patterson
  • Population: 485, Michael Perry
  • Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
  • The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan
  • Montana Sky, Nora Roberts
  • Look Again, Lisa Scottoline
  • Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris, 
  • The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith
  • Glaciers, Alexis M. Smith
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Mark Twain
  • Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward
  • Favorite American Poems; Large Print edition, various authors

Volunteer book givers agree to the following:

  • You must be 16 years of age or older.
  • World Book Night U.S. books are not for resale.
  • World Book Night U.S. books are not for friends, family, or book groups.

If you’re in the US, then you can apply here.

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Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences.
 Sylvia Plath, whose birthday is today.
Tagged: quote  Sylvia Plath  lit  
Posted 7 months ago with 432 notes

Voter Selected Top Ten Teen Reads →

It’s National Teen Read Week. If you’re a teen, then go out and read.

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the trick of finding what you didn’t lose
(existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift)
the teachable imposture of always
arriving at the place you never left

(and i refer to thinking)rests upon
a dismal misconception;namely that
some neither ape nor angel called a man
is measured by his quote eye cute unquote.

Much better than which,every women’s who’s
(despite the ultramachinations of
some loveless infraword)a woman knows;
and certain men quite possibly may have

shall we say guessed?”
“we shall” quoth gifted she:
and play the hostest to my morethanme.
e. e. cummings
Tagged: poetry  e. e. cummings  lit  
Posted 8 months ago with 37 notes
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Dame Agatha Christie, whose birthday is today!

What kind of reader are you? →

I’m a bookophile, chronological, and delayed reader #1.

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When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain,
Before high grav’d books, in charact’ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen’d grain;
When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love!—then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till Love and Fame to Nothingness do sink.
John Keats, “When I have fears that I may cease to be”
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
Henry James, The Portable Henry James
Posted 10 months ago with 111 notes
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I cared about you too much,” said Dumbledore simply. “I cared more for your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words, I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act. Is there a defense? I defy anyone who has watched you as I have — and I have watched you more closely than you can have imagined — not to want to save you more pain than you had already suffered. What did I care if numbers of nameless and faceless people and creatures were slaughtered in the vague future, if in the here and now you were alive, and well, and happy? I never dreamed that I would have such a person on my hands.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Louisiana State Library Funding Eliminated →

That’s it. I’m moving. 

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Because if you are like me, you know that some of us are not the world, some of us are not the children, some of us will not help make a brighter day. Some of us are the silent sufferers of a noisy disease. And that is all I have to say about fear.
Amy Hempel, “To Those Of You Who Missed Your Connecting Flights Out of O’Hare”