April 2012
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“Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock....”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (The Modern Prometheus)
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“For most of the time we were married I was in love with Diana Maitland. Never...”
– Young Hearts Crying - Richard Yates (1984). (via besieging)
Yates forever. (via housingworksbookstore)
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Staff Picks
Jen’s pick: Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami. An off-kilter odyssey with a split personality, this book jumps between two worlds. The hard-boiled wonderland is a universe parallel to modern Tokyo, where two factions compete to control information. The End of the world is a walled town, frozen in a loop, and populated by unicorns and shadowless townsfolk....
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a...
tokyomelody:
~ Jorge Luis Borges
And what a wonderful Paradise that would be
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It's the End of the World as We Know it.
Books and movies looking at the end of civilization as we know it. Some humorous, most not.
Colson Whitehead - Zone One. A pandemic has devastated the planet: sorting mankind into two types-the living and the living dead. The US is rebuilding under orders from a provisional government. The No. 1priority: reclaiming NYC. Armed forces secured the island south of Canal Street, but pockets of...
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Nancy’s Picks: “In the Bleak Midwinter” by Julia Spencer-Fleming. In the bleak midwinter is the first in the 7-book Rev. Clare Ferguson mystery series. Clare is a compassionate pastor and an Army veteran, who resides in fictional Millers Kill, NY, in the Adirondacks. She finds herself dealing with a murder when an infant is abandoned at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church. Enter...
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“There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and...”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones (via bookmania)
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Printz Award winners
The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. The award is sponsored byBooklist, a publication of the American Library Association.
2007: American Born Chinese By Gene Luen Yang Yang draws from American pop culture and ancient Chinese mythology in his groundbreaking work. Expertly told in words and pictures, Yang’s story in...
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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via bookmania)
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The BBC's 100 greatest novels of all time
60. Malone Dies Samuel Beckett Part of a trilogy of astonishing monologues in the black comic voice of the author of Waiting for Godot.
59. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell This tale of one man’s struggle against totalitarianism has been appropriated the world over.
58. The Plague Albert Camus A mysterious plague sweeps through the Algerian town of Oran.
57. The Pursuit Of...
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Nancy’s Picks: ‘Winter House’ by Carol O’Connell. Was the murder weapon a pair of scissors or an ice pick used 60 years ago in the same house to murder 9 members of the Winter family? NYPD Detective Kathleen Mallory, investigates a stabbing in the Winter family’s Central Park West mansion. This is a well written, intricately detailed mystery about buried secrets, betrayal and greed; it’s...
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wickedinthewest:
Sometimes, all you need to gain perspective is to watch several ‘Thoughts from Places’ videos.
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“The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska (via paintedfingernailsandtoes)
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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal,...”
– John Green- The Fault in Our Stars. (via wickedinthewest)
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“All I could think about now, as night fell, was how much you could love made up...”
– John Green, talking about The Fault in Our Stars (via briwithouttheb)
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Betsy’s Picks: “The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern. The circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young...
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“I think he revalued everything in his home according to the measure of response...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via in-earths-hands)
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“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he...”
– Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby (via lespetitsobjets)
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“I was within and without, simultaneausly enchanted and repelled by the...”
– The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (via daeul)
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The Great Gatsby
atinypanda:
“It is invariablly saddening to look through the new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own adjustment.”
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“In my younger more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via penguins-wolves)
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“Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy...”
– Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. (via witheredbluebells)
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“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his...”
– The Great Gatsby (via triban)
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“I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via sarahprabhucharan)
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“He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for...”
– The Great Gatsby, F.Scott Fitzgerald (via quivre)
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“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via astoldbyjoey)
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“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via queenrat)
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“Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via darkcornicesandblindingsigns)
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