An Experiment In Reading

8 Signs You're A Book Person

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:48:27 -0400

4. You will buy another copy of a book you already own if you encounter a particularly beautiful edition. Fancy endpapers! Genuine leather binding! It’s a collector’s item, really. You’d be foolish NOT to buy it.

The Jade Stallion: My favorite scene from the new Gatsby movie

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:23:17 -0400

The Jade Stallion: My favorite scene from the new Gatsby movie:

jadestallion:

SPOILER ALERT:

Myrtle awakens in the depths of the robot prison where she has been incarcerated to prevent her consorting with competitive robot-engineers. But Myrtle is too lively to allow this. Waiting until night-fall, when the robot guard shifts via space elevator to the rotating gun ship…

Celebrating Short Story Month by reading “Rashomon and...

Fri, 10 May 2013 09:23:06 -0400

Celebrating Short Story Month by reading “Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories” by Akutagawa. I love this edition. Maybe some Henry James later.

She was the tongue of the flame that made the firelight...

Tue, 07 May 2013 18:55:08 -0400

She was the tongue of the flame that made the firelight vivid.

“The Crack Up” F. Scott Fitzgerald

slaughterhouse90210: “Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in...

Mon, 06 May 2013 11:42:09 -0400

slaughterhouse90210:

“Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fatal decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal. They become the tangible landscape of memory, the places that made you, and in some way you too become them.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

You May Be a Book Hoarder If…

Mon, 06 May 2013 11:41:31 -0400

You May Be a Book Hoarder If…:

littlebrown:

Do you have books in almost every room of your house? Do you have at least one pile of “to read” books somewhere in your home that is seemingly getting larger by the minute? Are you currently using books to, shall we say, accessorize your house—as pedestals for lamps, decorative …

Are you a book hoarder?

I mean I wouldn’t call it “hoarding,” so much as having a library in my home.

picadorbookroom: (via: The Reading Room)

Fri, 03 May 2013 14:56:16 -0400

picadorbookroom:

(via: The Reading Room)

The more you know. From Tropper’s “The Book of...

Fri, 03 May 2013 14:53:51 -0400

The more you know. From Tropper’s “The Book of Joe.”

harkaway: incendiarism: cunninglanguage: tittybasket: anagram...

Wed, 01 May 2013 07:17:46 -0400

harkaway:

incendiarism:

cunninglanguage:

tittybasket:

anagrammaton:

mermaid-vision:

“Then they would go out to eat.” I’m hoping this is either actually food or an allusion to head.

“There were two more entries.”

‘A manticore is a horrid monster having a man’s face, the body of a lion, leathery bat wings, and a tail ridged with spikes’

uh?????

“His fingers dug hard into her arm, expecting an answer.” GoT was not a good choice of book to determine anything about my sex life. Especially not when pg35 is full of Targaryens.

“A thin whisper of sound passed the broken mouth, forced out on a last puff of breath.” …………..well.

“Preheat the oven to 180ºC.” ummmm?

“The track is made of sustainable Siberian pine wood and the whole structure is built from lightweight materials to keep transport and manufacture emissions low.”

So I’m looking at some kind of IKEA tantra with an environmental subtext, and I’ll manage to stay thin. I’m slightly relieved to find there won’t be a lot of transport involved.

It also occurs to me that I need to read fewer books about experimental architecture.

“After his conversion to Christianity in the mid-1920’s he advocated a largely rural society run by a few ‘great families’ and a small elite of theological intellectuals much like himself.”

From Terry Eagleton’s “Literary Theory an Introduction”

Well, I’m screwed.

likeafieldmouse: Richard Ehrlich - Homage to Rothko: Malibu...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:11:15 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Richard Ehrlich - Homage to Rothko: Malibu Series (2012)

jadestallion: Acrylic on masking tape, affixed to paper. 12” x...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:22:12 -0400

jadestallion:

Acrylic on masking tape, affixed to paper. 12” x 9”

rembrandtofroundball: SHEEEEEEED!

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:21:28 -0400

rembrandtofroundball:

SHEEEEEEED!

Brilliance from Fitzgerald in “The Crack Up.”

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:26:05 -0400

Brilliance from Fitzgerald in “The Crack Up.”

picadorbookroom: Can’t ever get enough quotes about the joy of...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:02:53 -0400

picadorbookroom:

Can’t ever get enough quotes about the joy of reading and the addiction of a good book.

(Hat tip: Tattered Cover Book Store. Buy prints here: http://etsy.me/11gXcia)

awesomepeoplereading: Foucault reads.

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:54:38 -0400

awesomepeoplereading:

Foucault reads.

englishgradstudentshaming: Lit Purist vs. Theory Purist...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:32:19 -0400

englishgradstudentshaming:

Lit Purist vs. Theory Purist Smackdown, Part I.

I love theory, I love ready criticism. Critical Theory in undergrad was my life changing class, I wish it’d been two semesters and not just one. Class wasn’t just about learning about theory, but about applying as well. So crucial. I became a stronger reader of literature thanks to all I learned and took away from Critical Theory.

In January of 1992 I wrote about “This Side of...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:29:33 -0400

In January of 1992 I wrote about “This Side of Paradise.” It’s a cute paper. I could’ve done better. Only received a 94.

slaughterhouse90210: “Love blurs your vision; but after it...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:00:43 -0400

slaughterhouse90210:

“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It’s like the tide going out, revealing whatever’s been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you’ve made.”
—Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

BOOK RIOT: Revenge Stories: A Reading List

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:28:58 -0400

BOOK RIOT: Revenge Stories: A Reading List:

bookriot:

We asked you to share your favorite stories with characters seeking vengeance against those who have done wrong. They take things into their own hands, and they make the wrongs right again. Here are the titles you shared:

Medea by Euripides

Titus Andronicus and Hamlet by William Shakespeare

“The Great Gatsby” (failed revenge, but revenge)

“Tender Is the Night” so many sentences that have me...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:01:37 -0400

“Tender Is the Night” so many sentences that have me swooning.