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”Books are notes from the field, bound and domesticated, life brought into narrow focus… Every one is a brick keeping the building standing. Books are my life. I leave and come back, and the books I find there tell me I’m home.
Joshua Ferris, writing against culling your book collection. (via gregbrown) (via thebronzemedal)(via jeanhannah) (via buyhercandy)
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did we do something wrong? did our generation collectively run over a homeless wizards wife and then the gypsy cursed us saying “Thinnerrrrrr bankaccount”? does anybody even read Stephen King anymore? does anybody read books? i don’t want an iPad. why are we Generation Can’t? what the fuck happened to us? it’s like a bomb went off and all we are now is a giant erect dick and a torso and legs- no head to control us - just flapping around fucking and preening and kicking shit we don’t understand because that’s all we know how to do anymore - just be negative and kick shit. and there is no fucking change. why is there no fucking change. i don’t even know where to start. it’s not any one persons fault. but i just can’t believe how fucking close we’re getting to the secondary character plot arc from “Wall.E”.
BULLSHIT. nobody ever read fucking books. They finished grade ten and got a fucking job. If you think people read less now than they ever did in the past you’re a FUCKING MORON.
ned hepburn (via clembastow) (via fnordmotors)
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Training for presidents, Victorian dude-spotting, and what the Brontë Sisters have to do with Jules Verne. Hark! A Vagrant – Kate Beaton’s witty and wonderful comics about historical and literary figures
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”Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do; if not, you probably should not be bothering with his book. But understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher, once he understands what the teacher is saying. Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.
Mortimer Adler, writing in 1940, makes a case for marginalia as the yin-yang of reading/writing (via curiositycounts)
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Kerstin and Dominik saw this Book Christmas Tree we posted and then created their own and shot a stop motion film of the making of it. Wonderful.
(Source: facebook.com)
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“I tell you, when it comes to asking stupid questions and giving crazy answers, I don’t need to go looking for help from my neighbors.”
- de Cervantes, M. (1605). The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha.
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“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray / Go throw your TV set away /And in its place you can install / A lovely bookshelf on the wall.” ~ Roald Dahl
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