July 2011
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“Since the world has changed so much, the same values don’t lead to the...”
– Eating Animals | Jonathan Safran Foer
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Chthonic
|ˈTHänik| adjective
concerning, belonging to, or inhabiting the underworld.
ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from Greek khthōn ‘earth’+ -ic.
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Responses.
Favorite responses to my Fahrenheit 451 question from a couple of days ago.
boxofoctaves answered: I would die for reading. Reading has always been my solace, my reason for reason. I can’t imagine life without literature.
I totally agree. There are obviously other things I would give my life up for before books but if it was all I had left then I absolutely would.
thebookgiraffe answered:...
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I wish all book covers are black.
hungry-for-books:
With only the title in the front and the descriptions in the back. No pictures, nothing fancy. I judge a book by it’s cover way too much, and because of that I probably missed out on so many great books.
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Denotation
(DEE-no-TAE-shuhn): the exact meaning of a word, without the feelings or suggestions that the word may imply. It is the opposite of “connotation” in that it is the “dictionary” meaning of a word, without attached feelings or associations. Some examples of denotations are:
1. heart: an organ that circulates blood throughout the body. Here the word “heart” denotes the actual organ,...
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ONE SECOND REALITY: My Opinion on the Kindle →
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There really is nothing romantic about a kindle! I mean ironically the word itself “kindle” means to call forth (when talking about emotions), also I believe its to hold close or keep alive. The ironic part of that is that a kindle can only be a piece of hard, cold technology. It looses the…
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“Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you’re lucky enough...”
– Let the Great World Spin | Colum McCann
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Why Writers Belong Behind Bars →
Literary distraction seems a very modern problem. These days, distracted writers tend to blame the Internet, whose constant temptations shred our attention spans, fragment every minute and reduce us to a permanent state of anxiety, checking e-mail every 30 seconds — “like masturbating monkeys,” a writer friend once put it, a phrase of which Sade himself might have approved. But history is...
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“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you’ll step back when the...”
– Invisible Monsters | Chuck Palahniuk
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Lady Windermere’s Fan | Oscar Wilde
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Quiddity
|ˈkwidətē| noun
( pl. quiddities ) the inherent nature or essence of someone or something; a distinctive feature; a peculiarity.
ORIGIN late Middle English: from medieval Latinquidditas, from Latin quid ‘what.’
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Follow this awesome blog about book reviews.
I agree with most of the reviews and truly enjoy the gifs they apply to them. :)
http://ihopetheyhavebooksinhell.tumblr.com/
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Couplet
(KUP-let): a style of poetry defined as a complete thought written in two lines with rhyming ends. The most popular of the couplets is the heroic couplet. The heroic couplet consists of two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter usually having a pause in the middle of each line. One of William Shakespeare’s trademarks was to end a sonnet with a couplet, as in the poem “Shall I Compare Thee to...
Anonymous asked: Do you know of any other chain book stores similar to Borders? I don't know where I'll buy my books now that their going out of business :[
&Is the online store going out of business too?
This is like the end of books and its terribly awful!
&Is the online store going out of business too?
This is like the end of books and its terribly awful!
Anonymous asked: i know you read a lot, but do you write at all? if so, what's your favorite genre to write?
Anonymous asked: how many books do you have?
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Just a question.
If we lived in a world like Fahrenheit 451 where reading books was illegal would you still read? Would you burn with your books like the old woman? Why or why not?
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Literary Confession: I HAVE to own the books I...
