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Books to read!

I haven’t been reading much lately and, being quite far behind on the 50 book challenge I started in August, I decided to put together all the book titles (fiction and nonfiction) I’d jotted down on desktop sticky notes and saved in Tumblr drafts to make this list of things I’d like to get around to reading at some point.

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Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
David Baldacci, The Camel Club (via bookoasis)

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The Hunger Games. (via wyfaced on Flickr) You know a series is good when you’re up until six in the morning reading it and then only go to sleep because your mom woke up to start her day.

The Hunger Games. (via wyfaced on Flickr)

You know a series is good when you’re up until six in the morning reading it and then only go to sleep because your mom woke up to start her day.

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I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people might use religious stories for. The bulk of what I know about human life I’ve gotten from novels. And I think the thing about novels that make them important to the people who love them is that there’s always another perspective.
Tom Perrotta, on the importance of fiction in his life. (via nprfreshair)

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You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Author Ray Bradbury, whose birthday is today and who once said, “Libraries raised me.” Happy birthday, Ray. NYPL has plenty of books by him and about him. Check one out today. (via nypl)

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Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August, when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside are cool and crisp to the touch; especially on a day in January, when the wind is blowing, the ice is treacherous, and the books inside seem to gather together in colorful warmth. It’s hard to leave a bookstore any day of the year, though, because a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be, because she is free to choose among them.

Jane Smiley (via reading-is-fun)

Plenty of cool and crisp books coexisting up in here, plus iced coffee.

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pardonmyhinglish: This cannot be real. And if it is real, take me there.

pardonmyhinglish:

This cannot be real. And if it is real, take me there.

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50 Book Challenge

The concept is simple: read 50 books in 52 weeks 

I got the idea from prettybooks’ 50 Book Challenge page (this year her goal is 100 books! 50 books is just a common goal, the number is whatever you wish it to be). I used to read a ton before high school and after reading the seven Harry Potter books this past week I realized how much I’d missed reading! The Harry Potter books seem to be pretty popular on Goodread’s 50 Book Challenge circuit and it looks like I’m off to a good start :)

August 2011 - July 2012

  1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling (re-read)
  2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling (re-read)
  3. Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling (re-read)
  4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J.K. Rowling (re-read)
  5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling (re-read)
  6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling (re-read)
  7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling (re-read)
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Pottering, Day Six-Going-On-Seven: Book Seven I don’t have much coherent to say about this book considering I read the first two hundred pages from about 2 a.m. to 3:45 a.m. last night and the remaining 560ish from around 12:15 a.m. to 4:10 a.m. just now (I have the American hardcover version of this one which is spacier in its typeface/layout/what-have-you so it seems like I read a lot faster than my approximately 100 pages/hr for the British paperbacks). Basically, attribute this to it being the wee hours of the night or not, this one was a rollercoaster of emotions! I did like it a ton more this time around than last (I distinctly recall thinking that some of the plot points were too much like those in some of the fan fiction I’d read; the comparative meh-ness of five years ago could also have been from isolating myself in my room until 2 p.m. while waiting for the book to be delivered to my doorstep). …so I’m trying to make sense out of what I want to say, but basically: I adore all the good guys in this to bits and J.K. Rowling is so frickin’ amazing my god I really have no eloquent words to describe how amazing she is I practically cried, multiple times, while reading this, and not just due to being somewhat tired. …it’s 4:30, good night y’alls! Seven books in seven days: mischief managed :)

Pottering, Day Six-Going-On-Seven: Book Seven

I don’t have much coherent to say about this book considering I read the first two hundred pages from about 2 a.m. to 3:45 a.m. last night and the remaining 560ish from around 12:15 a.m. to 4:10 a.m. just now (I have the American hardcover version of this one which is spacier in its typeface/layout/what-have-you so it seems like I read a lot faster than my approximately 100 pages/hr for the British paperbacks). Basically, attribute this to it being the wee hours of the night or not, this one was a rollercoaster of emotions! I did like it a ton more this time around than last (I distinctly recall thinking that some of the plot points were too much like those in some of the fan fiction I’d read; the comparative meh-ness of five years ago could also have been from isolating myself in my room until 2 p.m. while waiting for the book to be delivered to my doorstep).

…so I’m trying to make sense out of what I want to say, but basically: I adore all the good guys in this to bits and J.K. Rowling is so frickin’ amazing my god I really have no eloquent words to describe how amazing she is I practically cried, multiple times, while reading this, and not just due to being somewhat tired.

…it’s 4:30, good night y’alls!

Seven books in seven days: mischief managed :)

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Pottering, Five-Going-On-Six: Book Six I had some semblance of a social life for a day so HBP took a while longer, but… HARRY & GINNY <3 <3 <3 I remember totally completely falling in love with the scene in the common room after the Quidditch match (I put it right up against the Anne & Gilbert scene on the bridge, I think in ‘Anne of Avonlea’?). I love Luna’s “knack for embarassing honesty.” I do wish there was more Luna and Neville in HBP but whenever they were mentioned they were always recognized for their unwavering support and endearing quirks so it’s all good :) I wonder what Amortentia would smell like to me. I can’t remember how I felt when I first experienced Snape’s “betrayal” but the fact that I was furious even the second time around, even though I remember something in book seven about Snape-Lily and more reasons as to why Dumbledore trusted Snape, is a testament to Rowling’s amazingness and resulted in more fan-girling. Remus & Tonks! Finally! I remember feeling like the only one who was totally in love with them being together and then I discovered the Mugglenet Fanfic community (don’t knock it ‘til you’ve read it… and by ‘it’ I mean the good ones). There is some ridiculously amazing Remus-Tonks fanfic out there (mostly written before book seven came out gawd here come the waterworks). I can’t believe I have only one more book left TT_TT But then I’m watching all the movies! And I think I’ll attempt making Butterbeer for that ^___^

Pottering, Five-Going-On-Six: Book Six

  • I had some semblance of a social life for a day so HBP took a while longer, but…
  • HARRY & GINNY <3 <3 <3 I remember totally completely falling in love with the scene in the common room after the Quidditch match (I put it right up against the Anne & Gilbert scene on the bridge, I think in ‘Anne of Avonlea’?).
  • I love Luna’s “knack for embarassing honesty.” I do wish there was more Luna and Neville in HBP but whenever they were mentioned they were always recognized for their unwavering support and endearing quirks so it’s all good :)
  • I wonder what Amortentia would smell like to me.
  • I can’t remember how I felt when I first experienced Snape’s “betrayal” but the fact that I was furious even the second time around, even though I remember something in book seven about Snape-Lily and more reasons as to why Dumbledore trusted Snape, is a testament to Rowling’s amazingness and resulted in more fan-girling.
  • Remus & Tonks! Finally! I remember feeling like the only one who was totally in love with them being together and then I discovered the Mugglenet Fanfic community (don’t knock it ‘til you’ve read it… and by ‘it’ I mean the good ones). There is some ridiculously amazing Remus-Tonks fanfic out there (mostly written before book seven came out gawd here come the waterworks).
  • I can’t believe I have only one more book left TT_TT
  • But then I’m watching all the movies!
  • And I think I’ll attempt making Butterbeer for that ^___^
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