+ Commonly banned books throughout History
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
-Oscar Wilde
(via bookriot)
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I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (via enflurane)
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“You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.” - Dr Seuss
Large update of me apologizing for my life.
HI! It’s been a while since I’ve made a legitimate post on either of my book blogs.
So, the last time I was at the book store was a little over a month ago. I got two books while I was over there and I’ve just recently finished one. I’m really behind on my 50 books challenge, and I’m doubting that I’ll finish it. I’m going to be in AP Lang next year, and there’ll be very little time for leisure reading, and with that time, I’ll probably be catching up one AP US History and AP Music Theory and Physics. WOO. An upside to this is that I’ll be reading mostly classics for the class.
I’m currently reading Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, and Death and the Penguin by Andrej Kurkov. I’m barely a third into any of them. There’s also a huge pile of books on my bookcase awaiting my reading of them… And I’m going back to the bookstore next week.
-ragequit-
My boyfriend SHOWERS me with books. I love it. :) Makes me happy, really does, it just adds to my book-related misery.
I have to read and annotate Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck for my AP Lang class. Actually quite excited for this…
I currently have $55 to myself, and will be buying pocket classics (Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby) the next time I’m at the bookstore, as well as a new journal, a composition journal, a sketch book and either an iTunes giftcard or a big shirt to lounge around the house in.
Money. I is not allowed to have it. :D
Other things: I’m ALMOST sixteen. Literally weeks away from it. This makes me happy.
I have a pinterest… Go follow me?
That’s all for now my darling readers. Until next time.
-Abbie
“All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
“People always think something’s all true.”
“People never notice anything.”
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.”
“…he was about as sensitive as a goddamn toilet seat.”
“It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road. “
“I don’t care if it’s a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t, you feel even worse.”
(via thenewjerusalem)
Cross out what you’ve already read. Six is the average.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte BronteHarry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Nineteen Eighty Four - George OrwellHis Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles DickensLittle Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles DickensChronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane AustenThe Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur GoldenWinnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz ZafonA Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (I have to for my AP Lang class)
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram StokerThe Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton MistryCharlotte’s Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William ShakespeareCharlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Soooo I know what I need to read now.
My name is Abbie, I'm fifteen and I love reading books.
