The Perpetual Reader

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First book of the new year. Pro tip - you can never go wrong with James Salter.

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The Nature of Things by Lucretius. Love this quote.

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xmusic.fm // best of 2013

IT’S HERE! Just in time for the new year, it’s our playlist with our most popular songs of 2013. As a late holiday gift to you all, the playlist is available for FREE download HERE until tomorrow December 31st at 11:59 pm (eastern time). You can also stream it any time via 8tracks.

kiss you // vicktor taiwo [one direction cover]

i miss you // the xx [beyonce cover]

asleep // stars [the smiths cover]

i wanna be yours // arctic monkeys

everybody wants to rule the world // lorde [tears for fears cover]

tesselate // ellie goulding [alt-j cover]

you’re so dark // arctic monkeys

there is a light that never goes out // dum dum girls [the smiths cover]

blow // beyoncé

young and beautiful // lana del rey

hannah hunt // vampire weekend

royals [the weeknd remix] // lorde

pusher love girl // justin timberlake

shock to your system // tegan and sara

grammy // purity ring [soulja boy cover]

you & i // local natives

partition // beyoncé

get lucky // daughter [daft punk cover]

instant crush // daft punk ft. julian casablancas

do i wanna know // arctic monkeys

lose yourself to dance // daft punk ft. pharrell williams

i’m in it // kanye west

hold me, thrill me, kiss me // she & him

skeletons // of monsters and men [yeah yeah yeahs cover]

dreams // bastille & gabrielle aplin [fleetwood mac cover]

download here | stream here

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The latest

[jeanted]

Green Tea. Steinbeck. Macbook.

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'You can be Han Solo,' he said, kissing her throat. 'And I'll be Boba Fett. I'll cross the sky for you.'

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

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My view currently.

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The latest.

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"I no longer need the help of ghosts." -Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

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Not sure if I'm on an Anna Karenina hangover or what but I just can't get into this one.

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Getting me through this snow day (more like ice day) in Texas

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I’ve been trying to find the original author of this piece and I’ve been unsuccessful so far. It’s a hilarious allegory to the current ACA aka Obamacare hoopla.

So, Imagine that the company you work for held a poll, and asked everyone if they...

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Next up for weekend reading.

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Pitch Dark by Renata Adler

[burialintheeast]

Can it be done on friendship? I don’t think so. On intelligence? No. On hope, on love, on fame, on trust, on family, memory, convictions. I don’t know. But if, one day, old, and propped against the pillows, or rocking in chairs together, holding hands perhaps, by the fireside; if, looking back on our lives, older now, looking back on our lives we could say, It was all right, looking back, even the things that looked like mistakes, even the apparent misfortunes at the time, they were not mistakes, they were only part of our lives till now. We have been lucky together. We are drinking, by the fireside, and thinking, why did we worry, what was that remorse. We are here still, and what happened, what we did was right. Then we will have done it. Look here. But we can live this way.

Renata Adler, Pitch Dark. (via burialintheeast)

[angrybalbasaur]

If you’re a self-proclaimed bookworm (or a bibliophile in denial), you can probably relate to these 17 problems.

Pretty much everything, except for 6 and 15. I mean come on, how can I possibly forget to eat? IT’S FOOD. 

Number 7 would really be how I reacted on Fred Weasley’s death. Same for The Fault in Our Starts, except in the latter, I really had to stop reading for a while because I was so shocked. I mean, I saw it coming, I was just not expecting the death to be dropped like that.

As for number 10, I do read ahead so no one an actually spoil me. However, I never read ahead on the Fault in Our Stars. 

And oh God, number 11. I just can’t leave the bookstore without a new book. And I still have 3 reads to finish, yet I already bought a new one just a few days ago. I don’t have a lot time to read anymore because I have to study for law school. I still read, not novels though, just laws.

Now, I am still trying to figure out whether any of my friends borrowed my “Seriously… I’m Kidding” cause I can’t find it, though I don’t remember lending it to anyone. So I bought another one. 

I also bought “Veronika decides to die” a year ago, when in fact I already it when I was in high school and I’m on graduate school now.

Number 12 and 13 doesn’t apply to me as well, because 1) Not a lot of my friends are book lovers and 2) I simply don’t let them borrow it, if they asked.

Reading is fun!