April 2012
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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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In honor of The Great Gatsby's 87th birthday, be...
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“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via bookmania)
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Staff Picks
Barb’s Picks - World War Z by Max Brooks. Current and relevant! An oral history of the zombie war told from the point of view of the men and women who managed to survive.
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The BBC's 100 greatest novels of all time
65. Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis An astonishing debut: the painfully funny English novel of the Fifties.
64. The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien Enough said!
63. Charlotte’s Web E. B. White How Wilbur the pig was saved by the literary genius of a friendly spider.
62. Wise Blood Flannery O’Connor A disturbing novel of religious extremism set in the Deep South.
61. Catcher in...
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“This is why I don’t read books. People who read tend to be anti-social and...”
– Comment on Ann Arbor man punched during literary argument
via @meaghano via @mcnallyjackson (via housingworksbookstore)
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Staff Picks
Marybeths pick: To Ella Beene, happiness means living in the Northern California river town of Elbow with her husband, Joe, and his two young children. For three years, Ella has been the only mother the kids have known. But when Joe drowns off the coast, his ex-wife shows up at his funeral, intent on reclaiming the children. Ella must fight to prove they should remain with her while she...
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“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very...”
– Virginia Woolf (via liquidlightandrunningtrees) 