November 2010
14 posts
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“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in...”
– Virginia Woolf (via liquidnight)
Nov 17th
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“Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve...”
– Nick Hornby (via wordpainting)
Nov 15th
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Nov 11th
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divagate
wordjournal: verb • /dīˈvə-gātˌ, dĭvˈə-/ • to wander about; stray; ramble; digress.
Nov 11th
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“The books had been buried, so I hid this time behind a group of trees, I...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
Nov 10th
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Write This: Click vs. Clique
This is a quick one. Ready? “Click” is a sound. “Clique” is a group. Write that down.
Nov 10th
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perichareia
wordjournal: noun • excessive and violent rejoicing.
Nov 9th
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“Victor Hugo would write naked and tell his valet to hide his clothes so that...”
– What we can learn from procrastination : The New Yorker (via Instapaper)
Nov 9th
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“poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible...”
– carlos ruiz zafon via the angel’s game. (via sugarcoatedenterprises)
Nov 7th
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What NOT to Read.
dearcoketalk: “On the relationships section.” Lately I’ve been trying to form a cohesive opinion on a topic and I could use your help. During my twenties I read a few dozen relationship advice books. Many of these books advise women to wait a specific amount of time before having sex because 1. Women get emotionally attached too quickly and 2. Men will not respect you if you have...
Nov 6th
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Nov 3rd
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Write This: Could Vs. Couldn't, Where Caring is...
“I could care less.” It physically pained me to even write that just now. And don’t even get me started on the sound of it *shudder*… Here’s the thing, y’all. If you’re using “could” in this expression, I assure you, you should be using “couldn’t”. Seriously. I wouldn’t screw with you on something like this. See, if...
Nov 2nd
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Nov 1st
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Plosive
adj. Of, relating to, or being a speech sound produced by complete closure of the oral passage and subsequent release accompanied by a burst of air, as in the sound (p) in pit or (d) in dog.n. A plosive speech sound.
Nov 1st
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