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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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@mybooksandcoffee
āBooks are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesnāt carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.ā
ā Stephen King (b. 21 September 1947)
āI liked the idea of living in a city ā any city, especially a strange one ā liked the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of solitary life I might slip into? Meals alone, walking the dogs in the evenings; and nobody knowing who I was.ā
ā Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Fenrys
Reblog if you agree
Itās feysand
C I R C E | Madeline Miller
āWhen I was born, the name for what I was did not exist.ā
Chaol: I love Dorian
Me:
Book Therapy
āIn a good book room you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.āĀ Ā ā Ā Ā Mark Twain
āKeep reading. Itās one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.ā
ā Lloyd Alexander Ā | Ā @wordsnquotesā (via wordsnquotes)
Happy weekend, bookies! ā¤š
What could top it? Reading in your bed next to your sleeping doggo with a cup of great coffee šāš¶
Last pages of the day by Tom
an incomplete list of unsettling short stories I read in textbooks
the scarlet ibis
marigolds
the diamond necklace
the monkeyās paw
the open boat
the lady and the tiger
the ministerās black veil
an occurrence at owl creek bridge
a rose for emily
(I found that one by googlingĀ āshort story corpse in the house,ā first result)
the cask of amontillado
the yellow wallpaper
the most dangerous game
a good man is hard to find
some are well-known, some obscure, some I enjoy as an adult, all made me uncomfortable between the ages of 11-15
add your own weird shit, I wanna be literary and disturbed
The Tell-Tale Heart, The Gift of the Magi, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County, Thank You Ma'am
the box social by james reaney. i remember we all had to silently read it in class, and you would hear the moment everyone reached the Part because some people would audibly go āwhatā
wHat did I just put my eyes on
āThe Veldtā by Ray Bradbury
Not quite a short story, but read in class: āThe Monsters are Due on Maple Streetā from The Twilight Zone
Harrison Bergeron, Cat and the Coffee Drinkers
āWhere are you going and where have you beenā by Joyce carol oates
āThe Pedestrianā by Ray Bradbury
the lottery by shirley jackson
i canāt believe Roald Dahlās āThe Landladyā wasnāt already mentioned and also itās not so much unsettling as more absurdist but āThe Leaderā by Eugene Ionesco definitely made me go wtf
Ett halvt ark papper. I cried so much.
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A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
All Summer in a Day by Ray BradburyĀ
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby, by Donald Barthelme
I read Ray BradburyāsĀ āAll Summer In A Dayā in seventh grade (it wasnāt assigned, I was just going through my textbook for new stuff to read) and as a bullied kid with SAD, it Fucked Me Up.
An Ordinary Day with Peanuts, by Shirley Jackson
Eh, this was more like community college, but The Star by Arthur C. Clarke
Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
and this story that I canāt remember the name of and canāt find, though it might be by O. Henry? itās about a bunch of demons who want to stop Santa Claus from going through with Christmas, and he must travel through the mountains they inhabit to escape their vices? (good christ I canāt remember the name for the life of me)
Ok but the laughing man and a good day for bananafish but j.d. Salinger
The City (195) Ray Bradbury. An intense commentary on colonialism and space exploration. I read it for a sci fi survey class.
Another short story I read in that sci fi class was Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin. A commentary on humanity and how human we believe ourselves to be. Also, an interesting commentary on mental health.
In the Woods Beneath the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom, written in 1947 by Ango Sakaguchi. It made my skin crawl the first time I read it.
Also going to recommend For A Breath I Tarry by Roger Zelazny, a commentary on whether AI can become human in a future without humans: http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/ZELQZNY/forbreat.txt
whoever postedĀ āThe Laughing Manā andĀ āA Good Day For Bananafishā is Correct
the scarlet ibis
marigolds
the diamond necklace
the monkeyās paw
the open boat
the lady and the tiger (I assume you meant Stocktonās The lady orĀ theĀ tiger?)
the ministerās black veil
an occurrence at owl creek bridge
a rose for emily
the cask of amontillado
the yellow wallpaper
the most dangerous game
a good man is hard to find
The Tell-Tale Heart
Ā The Gift of the Magi
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County
Ā Thank You Ma'am
The box socialĀ
The Veldt
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
Harrison Bergeron
Cat and the Coffee Drinkers
Where are you going and where have you been
The Pedestrianā by Ray Bradbury
The lottery by shirley jackson
The Landlady
The Leader
Ett halvt ark papper.
ŠŠ¾ŃŃ Ń Š¼Š°Š·Š°ŃŠ°, Š. ŠØŠ°Š»ŠøŠ¼Š¾Š²
A Sound of ThunderĀ
I Have no Mouth, and I Must ScreamĀ
All Summer in a DayĀ
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby
An Ordinary Day with Peanuts
The StarĀ
Lamb to the Slaughter
The laughing manĀ
A perfect day for bananafish
The City (link goes to compendium of short stories)
Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin.
In the Woods Beneath the Cherry Blossoms in Full BloomĀ
For A Breath I TarryĀ
All of Flannery O'Connorās shorts.
I didnāt read it in a text book, but āI Have No Mouth, and I Must Screamā haunted me for life.
where the hell is the Giver?
Top 10 Tips for Actually Writing
for the writer who canāt seem to write.
Buy a pencil and paper. Get a writing program and a keyboard.
Spill all your ideas into a notebook that will never see the light of day. Write down literally every idea you have that even sort of relates to the scene/chapter/book that you want to write until your thoughts converge on a pointed attack.
Quality vs. Quantity? No competition. Quantity all the way. The more you write, the better you will know your story. Worry about Quality LATER.
Think about where the idea came from. Go there. Set up a cardboard box and live there. This is your home now.
What is the coolest, most self-indulgent thing you can think of? Thatās what you want to write at this point, until you get some steam.
Short-term goals, my friends. And by short-term, I mean a minute from now, ten seconds from now. What are you going to do to write RIGHT NOW? Stop thinking about an hour from now, stop thinking about a day from now.
This is not a book. This is not a book. You are not writing a book. You are writing a story. A story is much easier to take bites out of than a book. A book is a big, scary, colossal thing. Stories are fun and carefree.
Get yourself a writing friend. A cactus, an old bottle of nail polish, a fish in an appropriately sized tank, etc. Make them hold you accountable.
Set crazy low goals. Promise yourself you will write ten words today. Ten words and you will be the Best Writer in the Entire World to Ever Exist. Accomplishing things is a morale booster and will urge you to write more.
Just keep writing. I believe in you.
I mean I SAY I love the āEnemies to Loversā trope but what I really MEAN is that I love the
āEnemies to Resentful Allies In A Time Of Crisis to Grudging Mutual Respect to Growing Fondness Concealed By Snark to Hurtful Betrayal to Slow Reconciliation With A Greater Understanding Of Each Other to Strange But Solid Friendship to Unexpected Feelings In A Time Of Crisis to Denying Their Feelings While Growing Closer As Friends to Epiphanies Of Love In The Worst Possible Circumstances to Mutual Pining to Unbearable Sexual Tension to Loversā
trope
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Most honest book review ever.
My weekend is gone, dedicated to satiating this question. But I feel no regrets other than any unwanted emotions this piece gives to you. I am so sorry. ā¤ļøš Animation references: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNNAxCuaYoc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni_mS4cKPXY ā¦and a bunch of Michael Phelps videos
