February 2012
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SlushKiller: Why writers shouldn’t take rejections from publishers too personally
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“Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless...”
– Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
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“I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued...”
– Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
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“…he blew out his match and his flash of confidence at the same time.”
– Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
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“Poor whims of fancy, tender and unharsh. They are the enemy to bitterness and...”
– Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
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I read Rebecca so quickly I didn’t even have time to put it in my “currently reading” thing. Expect quotations. Only like three though.
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“But don’t forget who you really are. And I’m not talking about your so-called...”
– Stanley Yelnats Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake, Louis Sachar
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“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
– The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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“In the worst hour of the worst season
of the worst year of a whole people
a...”
– “Quarantine” by Eavan Boland
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Okay so I went through all four hundred and fifty-nine books on my goodreads to-read shelf. Some of them were weird books I would never like in a million years. I have no idea why I added them. Anyway, I got rid of a whopping eighteen.
We need to add an eighth day to the week. It will be called Bookday or Readday and it will be for me to have time to read four hundred and forty-one books. ...
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459 books to read on goodreads, yikes. i think i’ll go through and weed out the impulse/what-was-i-thinking adds. then i have to weed my actual bookshelves. and book boxes.
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“Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may...”
– Vladimir Nabokov
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I looked around my room and decided that I don’t, in fact, like old books, apart from those with sentimental value like my early twentieth century editions of Moby Dick, Jane Eyre, Les Miserables, and Don Quixote that I got from my grandma. I don’t like mildew or crumbly pages. I prefer eau de new book and beautifully designed cover art (eg: Ruben Toledo). It’s time to weed...
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“In height he was rather over six feet, and so excessively lean that he seemed to...”
– A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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“I thought of her in that cold ruined house, with night birds keening over her...”
– The Likeness by Tana French
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“Part of the debtor mentality is a constant, frantically suppressed undercurrent...”
– Daniel The Likeness by Tana French
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“Our entire society’s based on discontent: people wanting more and more and...”
– Abby The Likeness by Tana French
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“If you’ve ever seen a dead body, you know how they change the air: that huge...”
– The Likeness by Tana French
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“By the end of my stint in murder I could feel it coming: felt the high sing of...”
– The Likeness by Tana French
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“Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get...”
– The Likeness by Tana French
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“It’s a basic but still weird fact about books that two people’s experiences of...”
– Lev Grossman in his article “Beyond Good and Awful: Literary Value in the Age of the Amazon Review” written for Time Entertainment
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“Suddenly I realize
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into...”
– James Wright, Above the River: The Complete Poems
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“I wanted to tell her many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I...”
– The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone...”
– Oscar Wilde
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book reviews, what are those?
oh you mean that thing that’s been sitting unfinished on my computer for months…