February 2012
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January 2012
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25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore →
bookshelfporn:
Hilarious list by Open Salon for anyone who has ever thought about owning their own bookstore (eg. ALL of Bookshelf Porn’s readers).
CANNOT WAIT!
50 Book Challenge
In 2012 I am going to attempt to read 50 books. 366 days(what up leap year?) to read 50 books of my choosing. This is probably the first “resolution” I have ever done, but I am going to try my best to make this happen.
SO LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
January 2012:
1) Let the Great World Spin-Column McCann
2) Outliers-Malcolm Gladwell
3) A Wrinkle In Time-Madeleine L’Engle...
December 2011
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Dear Millionaires, if you don’t have a bookshelf...
I need to get away ASAP.
November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
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June 2011
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Reading List for this Summer:
The Foutainhead-Ayn Rand: Check
His Dark Materials Series-Philip Pullman: In Progress
Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov
The Chronicles of Narnia-C.S. Lewis
What is the What-Dave Eggers
Oryx and Crake-Margaret Atwood
We the Living-Ayn Rand
A Wrinkle in Time-Madeleine L’Engle
Paradise Lost-John Milton
The Count of Monte Cristo-Alexandre Dumas
Any other suggestions?
What’s more delightful than an evening beside the fire with a nice bright lamp...
– Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (via enchants)
What I hate is ignorance, smallness of imagination, the eye that sees no farther...
– Egyptian Book of the Dead (via trua)
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Today in Goodwill I found a copy of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. As I was checking out, the lady in line behind me asked whether I was buying this book to read for pleasure or because it was required for school. When I replied that I wanted to read it, the look on her face was utter disgust and confusion. I then turned to the cashier to pay and he said to me, “You just need a...
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Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the...
– Ayn Rand
May 2011
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nickholmes:
How have I not seen this? (thanks Welzbacher)
O.M.G.
To-do for Today:
1. Carrot Cake with Fresh Orange Curd filling and Cream Cheese Frosting
2. Asparagus and Parmesan Bundles
3. Figure out some kind of dipping sauce for number 2…
I love cooking. :)
We don’t make mistakes, we make happy accidents.
– Bob Ross
Scarification is disgusting.
In other news:
SUMMER!
Sometimes I would like to ask God why there is poverty, famine, and injustice in...