This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn’t turn out to be like Literature.
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| — | Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending |
Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives.
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| — | American Gods, Neil Gaiman |
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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| — | To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee |
“It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party.” - Nick Hornby
Haiku Review #1: Jan 1, 2013
Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas
Teenage angst done right
From the man that made V Mars
My “high” hopes were met
Rating: 
(You can also read my full Goodreads review of Rats Saw God.)
So the final volume in Ally Condie’s MATCHED trilogy came out today. The last book, REACHED, is a great ending to an excellent series, and I think very highly of both the series and its author.
All the pre-publication reviews have been great, and the initial Amazon user reviews were awesome,…
I sometimes have a hard time articulating to people why I, a former employee of two different brick-and-mortar bookstores, am not such a huge fan of Amazon. As per usual, JG sums up one (of many, since this obviously isn’t the only bone I have to pick with the Amazon peeps) of the practices I find distasteful.
In case you were wondering, there are so many other wonderful online sellers you can choose to get your books from (not to mention your friendly neighborhood bookstore if you feel like leaving your computer for a bit). Not to say you shouldn’t purchase books from Amazon if this stuff doesn’t bother you; do your thing, I’ll do mine. I just believe that an informed reader is a happy reader!
I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep.
My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside.
Amen.
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| — | Willful Creatures, Aimee Bender |
