December 2011
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 25th
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“I honestly cannot think of how I could describe it. Lying would be easier. I...”
– Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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“I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every hour holy....”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Book of Hours (via liquidnight)
Dec 24th
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Dec 21st
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““I know a limping verse when I hear it,” I said. “But this...”
– Patrick Rothfuss, “The Name of the Wind”
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
WatchWatch
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“Speaking of knives, here’s an annoying thing. Every time Paul is challenged to a...”
– HTMLGIANT, Books + Beer: Dune and Budweiser (via thebronzemedal)
Dec 15th
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The Alot is Better Than You at Everything  →
“As a grammatically conscientious person who frequents internet forums and YouTube, I have found it necessary to develop a few coping mechanisms.  When someone types out “u” instead of “you,” instead of getting mad, I imagine them having only one finger on each hand and then their actions seem reasonable.  If I only had one finger on each hand, I’d leave out...
Dec 14th
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“‘I love you’ means that I accept you for the person that you are, and that I do...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer —- This is what I mean when I say it. (via boxofoctaves)
Dec 14th
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“It’s about what girls want to be, what they’re told they should be, and how they...”
– J.K. Rowling (via sorrybadpun)
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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“Never believe that a few caring people can't...
Dec 12th
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“To write is human, to edit is divine.”
– Stephen King in On Writing (via jaylane)
Dec 8th
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An Interactive Guide to NPR's List of Top 100... →
“A quick word about what’s here, and what’s not: Our panel of experts reviewed hundreds of the most popular nominations and tossed out those that didn’t fit the survey’s criteria (after — we assure you — much passionate, thoughtful, gleefully nerdy discussion). You’ll notice there are no young adult or horror books on this list, but sit tight, dear reader,...
Dec 8th
Dec 8th
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Think of Yourself in the Third Person →
“Yes, I admit, this approach makes me sound a bit affected and self-important, but the thing is, it really works. For instance, for the last few weeks, I felt…depleted. Physically, I felt energetic enough, but mentally, I was like a cell phone that couldn’t take a charge. I couldn’t figure out what to do, but finally I thought of myself in the third person. As the...
Dec 7th
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7 Types of Book Lover →
6. The Underliner Love that sentence? Underline it and save it for a rainy day! The Underliner likes an immersive reading experience and believes the margins were invented for scribbling notes in. These are usually vaguely descriptive affairs like ‘love!’ and multiple asterisks. I have an old study copy of The Great Gatsby which somebody has scrawled throughout. It’s a lovely addition to a great...
Dec 7th
Town Produces 321% More Energy than It Uses →
kimspersonalspace: Funny how cleaner and more efficient green technology can work out if you just let it.
Dec 6th
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These things happen...
WeAreBadLuck: GRAMMATICAL DEATHMATCH
PetEditor: EDITOR VS PETULANT WEBSITE, ROUND ONE DINGDINGDING
Dec 6th
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Subjective Map of New Jersey →
Having grown up in “Pretty Much Alabama”…that’s actually more painfully accurate than most of us Jerseyians will admit to. 
Dec 6th
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“Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, doesn’t mean we...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via honeyforthehomeless)
Dec 6th
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Dec 3rd
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: degrassé →
dictionaryofobscuresorrows: adj. entranced and unsettled by the vastness of the universe, experienced in a jolt of recognition that the night sky is not just a wallpaper but a deeply foreign ocean whose currents are steadily carrying off all other castaways, who share our predicament but are already well out of… Beautiful
Dec 3rd
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Dear Sugar: A Big Life →
“As you and other long-time readers of this column may know, I’m a socialist at heart, but when it comes to the actual, individual way we live our lives, I adhere to an entirely pull-oneself-up-by-one’s-bootstraps creed. Nobody’s going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you’re rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or...
Dec 2nd
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Works of Fiction
laughingsquid: Works of Fiction
Dec 1st
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“You are so young; you stand for beginnings. I would like to beg of you, dear...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke,  Letters to a Young Poet (via ruefle) (Always reblog Rilke)
Dec 1st
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