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Posted 1 month ago
emergentfutures: The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart “Remember the good old days when everyone read really good books, like, maybe in the post-war years when everyone appreciated a good use of the semi-colon? Everyone’s favorite book was by Faulkner or Woolf or Roth. We were a civilized civilization. This was before the Internet and cable television, and so people had these, like, wholly different desires and attention spans. They just craved, craved, craved the erudition and cultivation of our literary kings and queens. Well, that time never existed. Check out these stats from Gallup surveys. In 1957, not even a quarter of Americans were reading a book or novel. By 2005, that number had shot up to 47 percent. I couldn’t find a more recent number, but I think it’s fair to say that reading probably hasn’t declined to the horrific levels of the 1950s.” Full Story: The Atlantic More proof that the 1950s were the worst.

emergentfutures:

The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart

“Remember the good old days when everyone read really good books, like, maybe in the post-war years when everyone appreciated a good use of the semi-colon? Everyone’s favorite book was by Faulkner or Woolf or Roth. We were a civilized civilization. This was before the Internet and cable television, and so people had these, like, wholly different desires and attention spans. They just craved, craved, craved the erudition and cultivation of our literary kings and queens. 

Well, that time never existed. Check out these stats from Gallup surveys. In 1957, not even a quarter of Americans were reading a book or novel. By 2005, that number had shot up to 47 percent. I couldn’t find a more recent number, but I think it’s fair to say that reading probably hasn’t declined to the horrific levels of the 1950s.”

Full Story: The Atlantic

More proof that the 1950s were the worst.

(Source:The Atlantic)
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Posted 4 months ago
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan Clearly I need to read this book, because it is singing my life with its words.
Posted 8 months ago
morethansound: toshellwithit: I just bought this seriously, how did this exist and I not know about it?!? Gossip Girl is the latest novel to get the mash up treatment. This time there are no zombies, no vampires - just a psycho killer named Serena van der Woodsen, hungry for revenge.  I’ve sort of created this alternate universe where people are dying, and the adults are kind of brushing it under the rug the way they used to brush under the rug, you know, partying and sex and all that. Cecily von Ziegesar on how she re-imagined the Upper West Side. [EW] I didn’t know about this either, but I’m definitely going to buy it tomorrow! Wait, what? I know nothing about Gossip Girl, but (unsurprisingly) I would read this. 

morethansound:

toshellwithit:

I just bought this seriously, how did this exist and I not know about it?!?

Gossip Girl is the latest novel to get the mash up treatment. This time there are no zombies, no vampires - just a psycho killer named Serena van der Woodsen, hungry for revenge. 

I’ve sort of created this alternate universe where people are dying, and the adults are kind of brushing it under the rug the way they used to brush under the rug, you know, partying and sex and all that.

Cecily von Ziegesar on how she re-imagined the Upper West Side. [EW]

I didn’t know about this either, but I’m definitely going to buy it tomorrow!

Wait, what? I know nothing about Gossip Girl, but (unsurprisingly) I would read this. 

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Posted 9 months ago
twigandsparrow: pretty cool covers by Cardon Webb
Posted 10 months ago

"In that moment, I understand the way that the noblest yearning for duty and sacrifice can be mixed up with all that is savage and shameful, like in the Bible, where a just and merciful God tells you to kill everyone, kill the children, kill the livestock, kill John Polling, leave nothing alive to sully this pure and just world. Except when it’s all done you find out that wasn’t really God after all, just some politician, or maybe it was God, but he taps you on the shoulder and says, ‘No, dude, that isn’t what I meant,’ and leaves you sitting in a Dairy Queen in Bothell with blood on your hands and no further orders."


The Army of the Republic Books Reading Stuart Archer Cohen
Posted 11 months ago

"Not enough. We need one more. How about the dumbfucks?”
“No, Josh, not the dumbfucks. You’ve done enough for the dumbfucks. Nathaniel, Thomas—”
“Blessed are the dumbfucks for they, uh— I don’t know— they shall never be disappointed.”
“No, I’m drawing the line at dumbfucks. Come on, Josh, why can’t we have any powerful guys on our team? Why do we have to have the meek, and the poor, the oppressed, and the pissed on? Why can’t we, for once, have blessed are the big powerful rich guys with swords?”
“Because they don’t need us.”
“Okay, but no ‘Blessed are the dumbfucks.’”
“Who then?”
“Sluts?”
“No.”
“How about the wankers? I can think of five or six disciples that would be really blessed.”
“No wankers. I’ve got it: Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake.”
“Okay, better. What are you going to give them?”
“A fruit basket.”
“You can’t give the meek the whole earth and these guys a fruit basket.”
“Give them the kingdom of heaven.”
“The poor in spirit got that.”
“Everybody gets some.”
“Okay then, ‘share the Kingdom of Heaven.’” I wrote it down.
“We could give the fruit basket to the dumbfucks.”
“NO DUMBFUCKS!"


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Posted 11 months ago

I want to read some good books.

I’m the kind of reader who goes through phases of wanting all the books, followed by phases where I read almost no books. My summer reading urge is kicking up something fierce. 

I once told somebody that the perfect book for me would be a rom com about a narcissist and a sociopath trying to survive the apocalypse. The sociopath may or may not actually be a serial killer. That and, like, music commentary/history books. Other things, too, but mostly those things. I don’t really dig sci-fi/fantasy if it’s not about dystopia.

So…any recommendations? :D?

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Posted 2 years ago
Saemi sent me the Percy Jackson books as pdf files, and as I read them, all I can picture is Logan Lerman. And whenever I picture Logan Lerman these days, all I can think of is this movie and this scene. :x :x bestdress: Logan Lerman dances for Jessica Alba in Meet Bill. You can view the whole scene on Youtube (2:40).
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