February 2012
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“Sometimes, you read a book and it feels you with this weird evangelical zeal,...”
– “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green
April 2011
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“‘You see,’ he went on, ‘it’s very much like your trying...”
– The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
March 2011
2 posts
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“Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks, and lightweight mashups may seem...”
– You Are Not a Gadget, Jaron Lanier.
Anonymous asked: What books can you recommend to a 17 year old girl? :)
February 2011
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“The pregnant heart / is driven to hopes that are the wrong / size for this...”
– from “Trouble” by Jack Gilbert.
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“A certain look came over Lotte’s face, a look I’d seen many times...”
– Great House, Nicole Krauss.
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“‘At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about...”
– Freedom, Jonathan Franzen.
January 2011
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“But the softer parts of him, his heart and his brain, were awash in hopelessness...”
– Freedom by Jonathan Franzen.
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“An additional vexing wrinkle to the girl issue was the fact that the ones...”
– Freedom by Jonathan Franzen.
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“We search for patterns, you see, only to find where the patterns break. And...”
– Great House by Nicole Krauss.
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“‘Nobody wants to discuss how lonely life is,’ said Julia....”
– “Richard Yates” by Tao Lin
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“The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make...”
– from “De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period,” Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
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“Boo Boo, keeping her eyes steadily on the boy, said nothing for a full minute....”
– from “Down at the Dinghy,” Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
December 2010
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“Between the licks of his swirling-candy stick, Lazarus asks Olga if she loves...”
– The Lazarus Project, Aleksandar Hemon.
lifeswings asked: Hello! I was wondering where you were able to buy Tree of Codes. Did you have it shipped here, or were you able to buy it in a local bookstore? :D
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“The cartographer spared our city. One could see wavily reflected in the display...”
– Tree of Codes, Jonathan Safran Foer.
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“It was the age of exaggerated hopes. the symbol of the times was the noisy mob....”
– Tree of Codes, Jonathan Safran Foer.
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“We tried shyly and plaintively, through the whispering of wilting gardens, to...”
– Tree of Codes, Jonathan Safran Foer.
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“I could not think of what I was going to do, and I was frighteningly alone with...”
– The Lazarus Project, Aleksandar Hemon.
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“He produced a particular kind of silence: it was not heavy, not accusing, not...”
– The Lazarus Project, Aleksandar Hemon.
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“I never thought they would care about particularities, so I never told them that...”
– The Lazarus Project, Aleksandar Hemon.
November 2010
5 posts
Anonymous asked: what do you think of Cassandra Clare/Claire?
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“Jesus, Irish men. We can’t ask for a goddamn thing, can we? Asking for...”
– in which I feel most like an Irish man than I ever have in my life, from Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, by Rob Sheffield.
Anonymous asked: You're from the Philippines right? Where'd you buy Till We Have Faces?
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“… but in January he got afraid of himself again. The fear was not...”
– “Travis, B.” from Both Ways is the Only Way I Want it, by Maile Meloy.
October 2010
5 posts
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“Never fall in love with an idea. They’re whores: if the one you’re...”
– The Cheese Monkeys, Chip Kidd
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“By now she was practically choking. She later confessed to me that I was the...”
– The Cheese Monkeys, Chip Kidd
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“I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a...”
– Zadie Smith (via wearebasiclight)
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“On the first day of class, the Visual Arts building reclined before me like an...”
– The Cheese Monkeys, Chip Kidd.
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“Nevertheless she feels that the two of them are alone; as if the apple tree...”
– The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood (via readhard)
September 2010
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“So I sing inside the mountain of my flesh, and my voice is as slender as a reed...”
– Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson.
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“‘He’ll break your heart,’ said she, glad to have found a...”
– Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson.
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“I was giving myself the slip and walking through this world like a shadow. The...”
– Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson.
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“This seems to be the story of my life: a refusal to enjoy the flavor of what was...”
– Foothill Boulevard, Catherine Bussinger, from McSweeney’s No. 30.
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“Did my feelings cloud my judgment? Sure. When you love a man it isn’t some...”
– The Beginning of a Plan, Shelly Oria, from McSweeney’s No. 30.
August 2010
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“‘I’m not going anywhere,’ I said, just to see how true I could...”
– Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon.
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“‘Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself...”
– Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins.
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July 2010
19 posts
smokeflowers asked: Hello! I came across the part where you said that you haven't read Maureen Johnson yet. Is that still true? If it is then I suggest you start with 13 Little Blue Envelopes, which is about a girl who receives thirteen little blue envelopes from her aunt that commands her to travel to Europe. Yes. It's a great read. Also, have you read any Rachel Cohn besides Nick & Norah's...
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