In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades. (Posts tagged books)

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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date a girl who treats you the same way she treats books

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I’ll critique you continuously and won’t be too bothered if I break your spine

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And then I’ll review your performance on several social media sites and ask for feedback.

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I’ll also insert rectangular metal and paper objects into your body whenever I need a break from you, and store you on a shelf in my house

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I’ll be done with you in less than a week and move on immediately. 

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If you piss me off, I’ll either throw you across the room or just ignore you for several months. Probably the cats will chew on you.

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I’ll throw you in a bag and forget you’re there for a month, and once I do remember again, I’ll write sarcastic comments on post its and stick them to you.

or i'll leave you in a pile on my desk with all the other dates i've forgotten about or don't have time for callous books

I’ve been reading And the Band Played On, which is a fairly old book, but it’s really interesting how it reads like a disaster novel when it’s based on true events. I have the same pit in my stomach reading this that I do when reading, like, Stephen King or something and I just want to shake the 80’s.

books and the band played on randy shilts aids hiv politics i saw the movie in high school and i remember being bored so either the movie is nowhere near as good as the book or i was more of a little shit at 16 than i remember being probably both both is good
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How To Tell If You Are In A Bronte Novel
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1. You have one dream, and it is very small, and everyone around you wants to crush it.

2. Your grandest ambition is to open a small school with four chairs and three well-behaved students, and to someday own a vase with a flower in it, and perhaps to have a second dress.

3. You take that part about the second dress back; you dare not fly so close to the sun, lest Icarus-like, your wings are singed.

4. You have just been walking in the rain, and everyone who raised you is dead, and you are glad.

5. A beautiful and shallow woman that you hate is your best friend for reasons you cannot explain. The more she demands your respect and esteem, the more cruelly you withhold it, which drives her wild. She mocks your station in public; you criticize her morals in private. You suspect her of being Catholic. One night you share a bed and have a fever dream together. She marries a terrible man and sends you fat letters stuffed with passion and longing.

6. Someone compares you to a sparrow. Someone compares your best friend to a scarlet-breasted robin. Someone compares the man you secretly love to a hawk or a crow.

7. None of your pupils are interested in Latin. Your pupils are scatterbrained monsters.

8. You have an enemy who claims to love you. You are competent at embroidering, but not accomplished.

9. You draw horrifying shipwrecks and lightning-ruined oak trees in your spare time. You have never danced, not even once, not even in your dreams.

10. You never tell anyone anything.

11. Someone you have never met has died and left you 20 pounds; you are the richest woman in the world and no man is your master now. You quit your soul-crushing job and move into a cottage. The cottage has whitewashed walls and a small chair for you to sit in; you have never dreamed of so much happiness.

12. You went to France once. You didn’t think much of it.

13. Something has been forbidden to you.

14. You know a man with easily excitable features and very dark whiskers. The two of you argue frequently over points of theology and may very well be in love. He handed you a flower once, and you have never forgotten it.

15. You have a terrible violence in your heart.

lol books brontes number 4 is especially accurate

I was just emailing Ash and it reminded me that I wanted to recommend The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls. It’s set during the Great Depression in Florida and North Carolina, and there’s all sorts of family secrets and intrigue and what not. It’s set at an all-girls boarding school, which I know appeals to a lot of you. It’s a really quick read, too.

I’m starting Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings tonight because hey, might as well stick with my camp theme.

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Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women for the money. And it made her miserable.

As a young writer, Alcott concentrated on lurid pulp stories of revenge, murder, and adultery–“blood and thunder” literature, as she called i–and enjoyed writing very much. She was in her mid 30s when an editor suggested she try writing a book for girls. Alcott wasn’t very interested, but her father was a complete moron with money and had left the family in terrible financial trouble. Alcott wrote Little Women in hopes of some decent sales and a little breathing room and got way more than she asked for. The money in sequels was too good to turn down (and her father didn’t get any smarter with a dime), but Alcott hated writing what she called “moral pap for the young” and longed to return to the smut and violence of her early endeavors.
Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Books and Authors You Had to Read in High School (via bookriot)
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