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"You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, "I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth." Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of "literature"? That means fiction, too, stupid."
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John Waters
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Nicholas D. Kristof
read in January, 2012
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| Am grateful this book exists. What the hell, world? How can this shit still be happening!? Pairs shocking, outrage-sparking accounts of the appalling abuse, neglect, oppression, and violence that millions of women still experience on an everyday basi...more | |
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| Three somewhat melancholy stories in sharply different styles that explore how fantasy is necessary and limited as a coping mechanism to deal with the crappy boredom/loneliness/guilt of life. | |
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| A competently written contemporary romance about two very attractive Type A workaholic lawyers who are competing to make partner at their firm while stuck working together on a lucrative case. I just felt no interest in the characters, plot, or world...more | |
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Three travelers meet en route to Spatterjay, a planet with a limited number of violently rapacious species and a virus that dramatically improves healing.
Revelations of a fairly complicated universe and history are given out in measured doses. The...more |
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| Yotsuba is an impulsive, enthusiastic, high energy little girl who moves with her translator father to a dream of a modern Japanese suburb. She, her dad, her dad's tall friend "Jumbo," and the three girls who live next door have adventures that are c...more | |
"Ah know all dem sitters-and-talkers worry they guts into fiddle strings till dey find out whut we been talkin' 'bout. Dat's all right, Pheoby, tell 'em. Dey goingtuh make 'miration 'cause mah love didn't work lak they love, if dey ever had any... love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone dat's de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore."
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Zora Neale Hurston
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| Yeah that's right I'd never read this until now. Janie Crawford returns to town after a somewhat long absence, inciting malicious curiosity among the townfolk, who send her old friend Phoeby to collect the truth. Janie recounts to Phoeby what she's b...more | |
"Just before I doze off, I counsel myself grandiosely: Fuck concepts. Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen."
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George Saunders
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| First attempt at reading this was a washup. Thwarted by such sentences as "Don't put it to me therefore as monstrous that the fact that we're after all parent and child should at present in some manner count for us." | |
“...it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept. And then you start to hurry. You work faster and faster and every time you look up there seems to be just as much left to sweep as before, and you try even harder, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop--and still the street stretches away in front of you. That's not the way to do it.
You must never think of the whole street at once, understand? You must only concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else.
That way you enjoy your work, which is important, because then you make a good job of it. And that's how it ought to be.
And all at once, before you know it, you find you've swept the whole street clean, bit by bit. what's more, you aren't out of breath. That's important, too... (28-29)”
― Michael Ende, Momo
You must never think of the whole street at once, understand? You must only concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else.
That way you enjoy your work, which is important, because then you make a good job of it. And that's how it ought to be.
And all at once, before you know it, you find you've swept the whole street clean, bit by bit. what's more, you aren't out of breath. That's important, too... (28-29)”
― Michael Ende, Momo
“Seasoning one’s claims with self-irony and modesty, cultivating a tolerance for moral ambiguity, periodically practicing normative reticence, building up a resistance to the pleasure of purity, minding your own business, doing what you can to forget to wreak vengeance, defending negative freedom even if there is no such thing, and playing around are the best you can do. But that’s quite a lot.”
― Jane Bennett, The Politics of Moralizing
― Jane Bennett, The Politics of Moralizing
“If heaven had granted me five more years, I could have become a real painter.”
― Hokusai Katsushika
― Hokusai Katsushika
“Even if I turned myself in, it wouldn't change anything. It wouldn't make me one of them. I knew that when I got my powers, but really I knew it before then. I learned it as a child on my first day of school, on the warm rainy streets of Bangkok, and in college. If you're different you always know it, and you can't fix it even if you want to. What do you do when you find out your heart is the wrong kind? You take what you're given, and be the hero you can be. Hero to your own cold, inverted heart.”
― Austin Grossman, Soon I Will Be Invincible
― Austin Grossman, Soon I Will Be Invincible
“Year followed struggling year for me, and all that time I read--I suppose few have ever read so. I began, as most young people do, by reading the books I enjoyed. But I found that narrowed my pleasure...”
― Gene Wolfe, Shadow and Claw
― Gene Wolfe, Shadow and Claw
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