February 2012
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It would be so amazing if by "adult novel" JK...
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela...
Five Little Poops Out of Five Little Poops *****/*****
The road to hell is paved with people who don’t like this book. TOO MUCH REPETITION AND TOO MUCH “FEMINISM?” I chortle in your direction.
I am truly, honestly, sick of fairy-tale-redo’s coming at me so hard they’re lounging in my morning coffee. Thankfully, I consider “The Bloody Chamber” in a...
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aworkofiction asked: Love the picture of sexy Col. Brandon with Marianne but I always wondered about something, In the movie specifically was that supposed to be a double wedding? Because Elinor comes out a moment later with Edward but she didn't look like she was dressed in bridal clothes but I didn't know if that was just supposed to be because she's the more sensible of the two. Just wondering your...
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Lapham's Quarterly: "A Few Words About My Wife,"... →
nyrbclassics:
2. A Few Words About My Wife
I have married the moon and she combs the water, the beaches of uncharted seas. She’s my lunar lady, she has long red hair and she drives a herd of horses through a screaming streak of stars! She gets married every evening in a greasy garage and she kisses all the pictures on the newspaper stands. Her pretty boy winks, he wraps the Milky Way around...
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Little Dorrit, I Died.
Well, rub me with butter and call me a pancake. I lost my shit with 5-stars worth of merriment; Little Dorrit was incredible. You don’t even know what this book has in it. Just to name a few: gondola chases, miracles, prisons, people named Tite Barnacle, dog murders, crazy exes, and I’m about 99% sure this book had lesbians. And DICKENS. I mean, we all loved A Christmas Carol, but...
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"Light Boxes" by Shane Jones, Also Hungry for...
I like poems, I like the cute and the precious fable thing, but this was like a sneeze that just did not happen. It wanted to happen, I needed to sneeze, but no. This book would have been charming to find in the initial 500-print run. A practically hand-bound book out of nowhere in a little family bookstore. But as it has the full Penguin (and so I’ve heard Spike Jonze) makeover…I...
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“Whenever the gondola of his mistress left the gate, the gondola of Mr. Sparkler...”
– Gondola chase GPOY, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
goldenhandcuff asked: Thanks for the reblog. I'm posting Dickens all day!
TODAY IS CHARLES DICKENS SPAM DAY.
Expect to unfollow.
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how-ood:
im so fucking excited for the hunger games that i just want to fucking stuff myself with bread and burn my hair
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fromthechaos asked: will you be the madge to my katniss? i think i'm in love with you already :D
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Just read that Jonathan Franzen thinks that eBooks...
fromthechaos:
It’s a shame that you sell ALL OF YOUR BOOKS AS EBOOKS THEN.
I feel less bad now that I got Freedom illegally…
I love fromthechaos.
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Jonathan Franzen Ragin On eBooks
Article Here
The best part is when Franzen is like “I’m glad I’ll be dead before everyone hates real books and stuff” (paraphrased for your convenience).
I used to work for an eBook device manufacturer and retail website, so of course, I’m loaded with opinions. Most major label devices don’t even compute “outsider” formats, so it’s not like...