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Dunno why this makes me giggle. :D luclatulippe: Henry Miller...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:55:41 +0700

Dunno why this makes me giggle. :D

luclatulippe:

Henry Miller had the same issues focussing on productivity in 1933 as we do today. Of course, he had the added advantage of living at a time without Facebook or Tumblr.

I particularly like no. 7.: “…drink if you feel like it.” Oh wow! I do that!

(Thanks to my husband for finding this!)

This made my day! paperbackgirl: My breakdown of Murakami...

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:25:18 +0700

This made my day!

paperbackgirl:

My breakdown of Murakami themes.

Doodle.ly Blog: The Doodle.ly Talent Gallery

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:16:54 +0700

Doodle.ly Blog: The Doodle.ly Talent Gallery:

That’s my friend. >_<

doodlely:

One of the reasons we created Doodle.ly was because we love to be inspired by other artists. And every day, we’re delighted by the wonderful doodles from our community. To celebrate you, our user, we’re launching a Weekly Spotlight Series to share some of our favorite doodlers’ work. So get to…

prettybooks: Another summer day.. (by Fatma)

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:42:50 +0700

prettybooks:

Another summer day.. (by Fatma)

prettybooks: (by The Binding Bee)

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:42:25 +0700

prettybooks:

(by The Binding Bee)

Photo

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My fav! betterbooktitles: Reader Submission from ThatDarnCass...

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:23:11 +0700

My fav!

betterbooktitles:

Reader Submission from ThatDarnCass on this Glamour post.

Sophocles: Oedipus the King

betterbooktitles: Paul Auster: The New York Trilogy

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:21:12 +0700

betterbooktitles:

Paul Auster: The New York Trilogy

bookoasis: The Abbey Bookshop in Paris is a source for...

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:20:27 +0700

bookoasis:

The Abbey Bookshop in Paris is a source for English-language books and is owned by a Canadian (hence the Canadian flag). The building is an eighteenth century Rococo townhouse in the heart of Paris.

So Yesterday: Date A Girl Who Reads by Rosemarie Urquico

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:12:42 +0700

So Yesterday: Date A Girl Who Reads by Rosemarie Urquico:

littlemissdorkette:

(In Response to Charles Warnke’s You Should Date An Illiterate Girl.)

Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilightseries.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.

I’ve read the “original story” (the link above), and found that the author’s intention to be sarcastic had failed miserably. People did not just “don’t get” him, but he totally cannot deliver his message.

booksandstories: Getting quite excited bout Haruki Murakami’s...

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:19:09 +0700

booksandstories:

Getting quite excited bout Haruki Murakami’s new novel now. The English translation is being released on the 25th of October which is tantalizingly close!

merryday: Say Hi Letter Balloons Yellow Notecards set of 4 on...

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:53:10 +0700

merryday:

Say Hi Letter Balloons Yellow Notecards set of 4 on by MerryDay

prettybooks: (by Priscilla Wong)

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:52:59 +0700

prettybooks:

(by Priscilla Wong)

curiouspig: thirsty

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:51:02 +0700

curiouspig:

thirsty

"…and then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth."

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:16:00 +0700

“…and then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth.”

- George Orwell (1984)

From Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death by Gyles Brandreth

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:17:13 +0700

Oscar Wilde: The telephone is about to revolutionise both the art of conversation and the science of detection. I am thinking of having one installed in Tite Street.
Robert Sherard: Do you know how to use a telephone, Oscar?
Oscar Wilde: Not yet, but I have children, Robert. They will teach me.

prettybooks: daydreams-tea: Good read is as stimulating as...

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:10:39 +0700

prettybooks:

daydreams-tea:

Good read is as stimulating as black coffee.