Colorful Pages

This is a book Tumblr. As I read the many different books that are awaiting me I will post my thoughts on the words that have been scribbled. I am currently attending the local university here, attempting to earn a BA in History. I have a soft spot for fantasy, historical, horror, and post-apocalyptic novels but will try to read as many different kinds of books as possible. If the author writes beautifully it's pretty easy for me to fall into his/her world.

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"Gatsby?" demanded Daisy. "What Gatsby?"

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter 1

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Carnival of Souls by Melissa Marr

I was so happy to find this book at the local bookshop! Marr is one of my favorite authors. I absolutely loved her Wicked Lovely series and have been waiting for another of her worlds to totally blow me away. This is it.

It does have a major cliff hanger at the end which is going to near kill me. I want to read more of Aya, Kaleb, and Mallory! 

The world of Daimons and witches is so enchanting so I definitively suggest you go out and read this one from Marr.

Enter the Carnival!

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"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired."

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 

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Well, after all. This is the age of disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coat tails. How are you supposed to rood for the home team when you don't even have a program or know their names?

Ray Bradbury , Fahrenheit 451

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The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

Let The Great World Spin, Colum McCann (via wrists)

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I sit down. Everybody at the table is looking at me. "What?" I say, suddenly nervous and on guard. "Shakespeare, are you stoned?" my mother asks. the question hits me like a sledgehammer. I sit stunned for a moment by the force of the blow. Then I feel a smile creep across my face. I feel myself begin to nod, and a voice that sounds curiously like my own says, "I'm stoned out of my mind right now." My brother's jaw drops. Sylvia gasps. My mother seems frozen, completely at a loss for words. My father lets out a little chuckle before he catches himself and tries to look stern. What can they do? We are out at a restaurant, we have already ordered, and my mother would rather eat shoe polish than cause a scene in public.

Spanking Shakespeare by Jake Wizner, March

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Yay.

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Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (via fabula)

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Inspirational Women I Love —> J. K. Rowling

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Update on Books!

So I totally got sidetracked by the Fever Series and it's like almost the middle of JULY!!! I just had to finish that series because I wanted so badly for MAC to actually do something. She did... like in book FIVE. 

That's okay though because I have a month before school starts to read freely. I've started Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury and I am hoping to also read Cinder by Marissa Meyer, The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, and We the Living by Ayn Rand. It's a short list but I also have a lot of shifts at work. (and we have a strict no reading at work policy. unless it's so slow you might die.) In the coming weeks I will hopefully finish Fahrenheit 451 and begin either Rand's or Meyer's book. 

I did start to read Matched by Ally Condie... I'm half way through. I love the idea she has here but I just cannot seem to get myself to pick it back up... I find her writing really dry. Part of it could be the society she has created and the fact that the main character telling the story wrote a letter to her dying grandfather using other people's word snippits instead of her own like grandpa wanted her to. Eventually I'll make myself pick it back up. 

Bradbury is a bit of a distraction. He just writes so beautiful. The first part, about burning. Wonderful.

When school starts back up I will also try to continue recommending books. I'm just warning you that it might be a bit sparser than what I usually update. A few of my classes are also requiring novels for me so I will also recommend on those and any other books that are not straight up textbooks. (For example I have a really interesting memoir for my 21st c Asian Wars Class called Comfort Woman: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery under the Japanese Military.) (21st c Asian Wars also has five other books, all novels. So you all are going to hear a lot about Asia this semester (along with other things! I promise!). Hope that's okay!) However I do not think you want to hear about what my French textbook has to say about verbs and formal vs informal use of words. 

There are also some exciting books coming out this September and October! Melissa Marr has a new book, along with Andrew Smith and a few others. I'm also going to continue my rereading of the classics. 

So this next semester should be incredibly exciting book wise! 

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Required Summer Reading

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The Wall of Books, Anouk Kruithof

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The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson - John Green & David Levithan (via written-records)

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Huckleberry Finn

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Shadowfever

was better than the first four in Moning's Fever Series. I felt like we were finally getting to what was really going on. And Mac grew a back bone and started actually DOING STUFF. So bravo Moning. You ended the series on a good note.