"A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader."
- Vladimir Nabokov (via unsunglory)
Original manuscript page from Émile Zola’s Au Bonheur des Dames.
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I move the stars for no one.: Not being able to read a book in one day, or one week does not...
Not being able to read a book in one day, or one week does not mean:
- you’re stupid
- you hate books
- you are somehow less of a person
- you aren’t a real reader
Being able to read a book in one day, or one week does not mean:
- you’re a god
- you love books
- you’re a genius
- you’re a real reader
Alone With Everybody by Charles Bukowski
god, who’d want to be such an asshole ?
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Library Love CANADA: Happy Valentine's Day to all the Jane Austen fans!
For those of you who at this time of year celebrate with a Jane Austen film adaptation/spinoff or two. Here are some books you might enjoy!
THE REAL JANE AUSTEN by Paula Byrne
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things offers a startlingly original look at the revered writer through a variety of key moments, scenes, and objects in her life and work. Going beyond previous traditional biographies which have traced Austen’s daily life from Steventon to Bath to Chawton to Winchester, Paula Byrne’s portrait—organized thematically and drawn from the most up-to-date scholarship and unexplored sources—explores the lives of Austen’s extended family, friends, and acquaintances. Through their absorbing stories, we view Austen on a much wider stage and discover unexpected aspects of her life and character. Byrne transports us to different worlds—the East Indies and revolutionary Paris—and different events—from a high society scandal to a petty case of shoplifting, She follows Austen on her extensive travels, setting her in contexts both global and English, urban and rural, political and historical, social and domestic—wider perspectives of vital and still under-estimated importance to her creative life.
THE JANE AUSTEN MARRIAGE MANUAL by Kim Izzo
It is Fall 2008, the recession is in full swing and Kate Shaw is about to turn forty. As an acting beauty editor for a fashion magazine, Kate has glided from contract to contract only to be told that, due to cutbacks, her services are no longer required. Through no fault of her own she finds herself single, homeless and desperate to help her family survive its own financial and emotional crises. Known for her love of all things Jane Austen, Kate is given a freelance gig that changes everything: is it possible, in these modern times—and at a certain age—to marry well?
DANCING WITH MR. DARCY by Sarah Waters
The Jane Austen Short Story Compilation celebrates the immortal author and her works, and the blessed home that afforded her the peace and security to create them. Judged and chosen by Sarah Waters, bestselling author ofTipping the Velvet and Fingersmith, Dancing with Mr. Darcy includes the winning selection and nineteen runners-up, as well as introductions from Waters and Rebecca Smith, the great-great-great-great-great niece of Jane Austen.
MY JANE AUSTEN SUMMER by Cindy Jones
Lily has squeezed herself into undersized relationships all her life, hoping one might grow as large as those found in the Jane Austen novels she loves. But lately her world is running out of places for her to fit. So when her bookish friend invites her to spend the summer at a Jane Austen literary festival in England, she jumps at the chance to reinvent herself.
THE LOST MEMOIRS OF JANE AUSTEN by Syrie James
Deft and witty, written in a style that echoes Austen’s own, this unforgettable novel offers a delightfully possible scenario for the inspiration behind this beloved author’s romantic tales. It’s a remarkable book, irresistible to anyone who loves Jane Austen—and to anyone who loves a great story.
CASSANDRA AND JANE by Jill Pitkeathley
They were beloved sisters and the best of friends. But Jane and Cassandra Austen suffered the same fate as many of the women of their era. Forced to spend their lives dependent on relatives, both financially and emotionally, the sisters spent their time together trading secrets, challenging each other’s opinions, and rehearsing in myriad other ways the domestic dramas that Jane would later bring to fruition in her popular novels. For each sister suffered through painful romantic disappointments—tasting passion, knowing great love, and then losing it—while the other stood witness. Upon Jane’s death, Cassandra deliberately destroyed her personal letters, thereby closing the door to the private life of the renowned novelist … until now.
Book Pattern
: The Manuscript of Beowulf (1000 AD) Can Now Be Viewed Online for the First Time
Made around the year 1000, most likely during the reign of King Æthelred the Unready (978-1016), this manuscript committed to parchment a tale that (in some modern scholars’ opinions) had been passed down for centuries, between generations of storytellers.
In its present state, the poem, named after its hero Beowulf, contains more than 3,000 lines, and divides conventionally into three comparatively equal sections: Beowulf’s struggle with the monster, Grendel; the revenge of Grendel’s mother; and Beowulf’s final contest with a dragon, which was guarding a hoard of treasure. What marks out Beowulf is the gripping and highly developed story, and the richness of its language.
Books that should NEVER be given to anyone as Valentine’s Day gifts.
disco protection
if you go to buy a novel that’s been adapted into a movie and you choose the cover with the actors instead of the original cover, i swear to fucking god i will track you down and hug you so hard for choosing to read a book at all regardless of the fucking cover and the opinions of book elitists
same
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"Lots of women read fiction. Most men don’t. Women read fiction written by women and by men. Most men don’t. If a man opens a novel, he likes to have a masculine name on the cover; it’s reassuring somehow. You never know what might happen to that external genitalia if you immerse yourself in imaginary doings concocted by someone with the goods on the inside."
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Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men
This quote goes out to all the fellas who read fiction. This quote does not go out to the dude who once told me, “I don’t really like female writers as much as male writers.” For real. That happened. The fact that he is still alive and that I have not murdered him speaks to my restraint.
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