April 2011
19 posts
Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
booksinthekitchen:
My review of Karen Russell’s much-anticipated novel Swamplandia! appears in today’s Edmonton Journal, as well as right here online.
I didn’t love it as much as most people, but there’s still plenty to recommend. Since we’re in an exclamatory mode, click through!(!!)
10 overrated literary classics - The National →
irunfrombears:
The National lists their 10 most overrated literary classics. While I don’t agree with most of this list, I do like their suggestions on what to read instead.
“Gloria laughed at them and said she’d overtaken grief a long time ago, that she...”
– Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (via mangofreee)
“All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: share what you have, play...”
– - Robert Fulghum. (via puslebit)
25 Books to Read Before 25 →
booksbooksbooks:
Including: To Kill a Mockingbird, Great Expectations, and The Historian.
“The sad truth is that the truth is sad.”
– The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket (via princessleah7x) (via quote-book) (via pleasedo) (via booktumbling)
March 2011
21 posts
“Madeleine was born on November 29th, 1918, and spent her formative years in New...”
– Madeleine L’Engle: Biography
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i wonder what my life would be like had i been allowed to explore the depths and heights of my creative curiousity. (via puresolitude)
“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by...”
– Dr. Seuss, on writing. (via nihilnoetia)
Book Review - 'Byron in Love - A Short Daring... →
booktumbling:
“Thank the gods of literature that George Gordon, Lord Byron, was born in 1788, well out of the reach of psychopharmacology. “Byron in Love,” the Irish novelist Edna O’Brien’s compact and mischievously complicit biography of the great Romantic poet and enfant terrible, skates over its subject’s literary career to showcase the dissolute behavior Byron’s critics decried as that of a...
10 writers who departed in mysterious ways
ragbag:
sherwood anderson: choked to death on a toothpick.
arnold bennett: drank water from a carafe in a paris restaurant in an attempt to show that the city’s water was safe to drink, but he caught typhoid from it and died two months later.
molière: was playing the lead role of the hypochondriac in his play the imaginary invalid when he died.
aeschylus: is alleged to have died when an eagle...
“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, I speak like a...”
– Nabokov.
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Book Art By Brian Dettmer
1001bookstoreadbeforeyoudie:
February 2011
2 posts
January 2011
5 posts
“And after Françoise had removed her pins from the mouldings of the window-frame,...”
– Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust (via the-final-sentence)
November 2010
1 post
“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)
September 2010
4 posts
