December 2010
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I got two Barnes and Noble gift cards this...
I already have five new books on their way to my house. Yay.
Finally ordered War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.
I can’t wait to get it! Thanks Sam for my B&N gift card. :)
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“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via isthatwhattheysaid)
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Day 9: A Book you've read more than once.
There are too many to just pick one. All of the Harry Potter books, Witch Child by Celia Rees, The Keep by Jennifer Egan, Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, Lucky by Alice Sebold, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, White Oleander by Janet Fitch and pretty much every book on my “Favorite Books” list.
This challenge can be...
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Bluebird by Charles Bukowski
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I’m not going
to let anybody see
you.
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he’s
in there.
there’s a...
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Day 8: An unpopular book that you think should be...
Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks, I read this earlier in the year. It is one of my favorite books and I feel like no one has read it. Chappie reminds me so much of Holden Caulfield except he is not as whiney. If you enjoy The Catcher in the Rye you will like this book as well.
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“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of...”
– Maya Angelou (via bookstorecouture)
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Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven...
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“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry...”
– John Keating, Dead Poets Society (via arviquioc)
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hersunnydisposition asked: what a beautiful blog you have! it is one of my main new year's resolutions (that i actually plan to follow up on) to read more often/more classics, specifically. and your blog is such an inspiration for that!
hersunnydisposition asked: what a beautiful blog you have! it is one of my main new year's resolutions (that i actually plan to follow up on) to read more often/more classics, specifically. and your blog is such an inspiration for that!
