February 2012
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“Five years after the debut of his first novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar...”
– Junot Diaz is publishing a new book of short stories. (via libraryjournal)
!!!!!!
(via maspower)
This is going straight to the top of my reading list.
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Entered the lottery to see Starkid's next musical.
willwritefordietcoke:
Here’s to losing! I’ve never won a lottery in my life. Maybe this time will work out, but I don’t see why it would.
But if it works out, epic roadtrip with twyllflameheart will happen. And I just can’t help but be hopeful for that!!
As she and I always say: “It’s not gonna happen. But what if it does!?”
Sasha and I, being the same person, had an identical reaction to...
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
– David Foster Wallace (via 4mbivalent)
“I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.”
– Sherman Alexie (via thosepaperscut)
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Your very favorite librarian: Great review for Dan... →
maspower:
honeydeer:
yourveryfavoritelibrarian:
‘Stay Awake’: Stories On Grief And Everything After
by MICHAEL SCHAUB
February 6, 2012
Grieving is a series of a million heartbreaks. Every morning, you wake, temporarily freed of the memory of what you’ve lost, only to have the memory rush in and…
My old professor’s new book. I look forward to reading it, I’ve had a lot of grief...
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thosepaperscut:
Here is how I want this season of Glee to end: Rachel goes on a murder spree and kills everyone in Glee club, including Mr. Shue Then, covered in their blood and having set up their bodies in the seats of the auditorium She takes to the stage and sings the most haunting rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” that has ever been sung.
I will not be satisfied with anything...
January 2012
25 posts
“Fuck them is what I say. I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They...”
– Renowned children’s book author MAURICE SENDAK, telling us how he really feels, on The Colbert Report. (via inothernews)
Oh, Maurice Sendak. I disagree with you so, so much.
“African American women’s internal life experiences are part of the American...”
– Melissa Harris-Perry (via sociolab)
Heartbreaking.
(via maspower)
hold me closer tony danza: Yesterday my mom posted... →
r0bertbrowniejr:
Yesterday my mom posted a picture on Facebook of my 5 year old brother Sam wearing a pair of shoes he picked out for his first day of preschool.
She explained to him in the store that they were really made for girls. Sam then told her that he didn’t care and that “ninjas can wear pink shoes…
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A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of... →
I realize that most of my followers don’t care at all about things like this, but I laughed hard.
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“According to lawyers… (SOPA) doesn’t shut down your website and remove it from...”
– JON STEWART, The Daily Show (via inothernews)
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“There is nothing more tragic than to sleep through a revolution.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in his 1965 Oberlin commencement address, “Remaining Awake Through A Great Revolution.” (via oberlin-college)
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Because he's the hero Baker Street deserves, but...
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