I am a 21 year old English major going to school in Georgia just waiting to move to Seattle. I love all things books and tea and I suppose you do too or something....wow this sounds boring...oh well! Enjoy!!
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
-C.S. Lewis
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Literary characters are physically vague—they have only a few features, and these features don’t matter. Or, these features only matter in that they help narrow a character’s meaning. But these features don’t help us picture a character. Characters are ciphers. And narratives are made richer by omission.
Picturing Books – beautiful essay by Peter Mendelsund exploring the layer of imagination we each bring to stories. (via explore-blog)
Literature is the mind’s food and most of the world is starving
David Cain (via 61dccain)
Let it burst(and bloom): 20 Things I Learned from JRR Tolkien
- Defeat does not come because the other side is better and stronger than you. Defeat happens when you despair.
- Never, ever try and cross the Misty Mountains. Something bad will happen. Always.
- The greatest sort of courage is to be found in ordinary, good people.
- If anyone…
The Collection:
Leo Tolstoy: Black Plum, Persimmon, & Oakmoss ”All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
Jane Austen: Gardenia, Tuberose, & Jasmine “There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”
Emily Dickinson: Lavender & Cassis “Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”
Oscar Wilde: Cedarwood, Thyme, & Basil ”Anyone who lives within their means, suffers from a lack of imagination.”
Charles Dickens: Tangerine, Juniper, & Clove ”I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.”
Edgar Allan Poe: Cardamom, Absinthe, & Sandalwood ”All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
Mark Twain: Tobacco Flower & Vanilla “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.”
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You’ll always be with every new book I read! #potterhead #HarryPotter #Bookmark #books #reading #collectible #JKRowling #literature #always (Taken with Instagram)
You’ll always be with every new book I read! #potterhead #HarryPotter #Bookmark #books #reading #collectible #JKRowling #literature #always (Taken with Instagram)
Short Stories You Should Read
Listed in no particular order. I forced myself to choose only one story per writer (very difficult in some cases). There is a lot of amazing short fiction out there, but these are stories—of various styles—that have stuck with me over the years and have taught me what a story can be. I’m sure I’m forgetting a lot of gems.
- “Wakefield” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “Berenice” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “The Lady with the Lap Dog” by Chekhov
- “The Overcoat” by Gogol
- “The Necklace” by Guy Maupassant
- “A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka
- “The Dead” by James Joyce
- “The Secret Life of Walter Middy” by James Thurber
- “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner
- “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
- “The Snows of Kilamanjaro” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Friend of My Youth” by Alice Munro
- “When We Were Nearly Young” by Mavis Gallant
- “Work” by Denis Johnson
- “Wants” by Grace Paley
- “The Swimmer” by John Cheever
- “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor
- “Hitch-Hikers” by Eudora Welty
- “The Laughing Man” by J.D. Salinger
- “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver
- “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried” by Amy Hempel
- “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin
- “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country” by William Gass
- “After Rain” by William Trevor
- “White Angel” by Michael Cunningham
- “Girl” by Jamaica Kinkaid
- “A Rich Man” by Edward P. Jones
- “Do Not Disturb” by A.M. Homes
- “Twenty Minutes” by James Salter
- “Happy Memories” by Lydia Davis
- “Screenwriter” by Charles D’Ambrosio
- “Memory Wall” by Anthony Doerr
- “L. Debard and Aliette” by Lauren Groff
- “Bullet in the Brain” by Tobias Wolff
- “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien
- “Boys Town” by Jim Shepard
- “The Fat Girl” by Andre Dubus
- “Pastoralia” by George Saunders
- “Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned” by Wells Tower
- “Men Under Water” by Ralph Lombreglia
- “All the Way in Flagstaff, Arizona” by Richard Bausch
- “Brownies” by Z.Z. Packer
- “Hell-Heaven” by Jhumpa Lahiri
- “Sindbad” by Donald Barthelme
- “I Used to Live Here Once” by Jean Rhys
- “The Girl Detective” by Kelly Link
- “Sororally” by Gary Lutz
- “Train” by Joy Williams
- “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell
- “The Magic Poker” by Robert Coover
- “Lady” by Diane Williams
- “Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice” by Nam Le
- “Natasha” by David Bezmozgis
- “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates
- “A Spoiled Man” by Daniyal Mueenuddin
- “Rock Springs” by Richard Ford
- “The Custodian” by Deborah Eisenberg
- “In the Gloaming” by Alice Elliott Dark
- “You’re Ugly, Too” by Lorrie Moore
- “A Romantic Weekend” by Mary Gaitskill
- “Blessed Assurance” by Allan Gurganus
- “The Half-Skinned Steer” by Annie Proulx
- “Drown” by Junot Diaz
- “Immortality” by Yiyun Li
- “Sun City” by Caitlin Horrocks
- “None of the Above” by Suzanne Rivecca
- “Virgins” by Danielle Evans
- “Safari” by Jennifer Egan
- “Testimony of Pilot” by Barry Hannah
- “These Hands” by Kevin Brockmeier
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Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles, You’ll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
- The most censored book in US high schools & libraries from 1961 to 1982.
- In 1982 it was BOTH the most censored book AND the 2nd most taught book in US public schools.
- The 10th most frequently challenged book from 1990 to 1999.
The American Library Association provides a full history of Catcher In The Rye’s controversy.
(via dontlimitmylit)
Bringing this back because it’s the best quote from Brave New World (Taken with Instagram)
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