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Just read the book. Book quotes, photos, relatable reblogs, etc. from all my sporadic faves

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Another upsetting trend was suddenly happening in my work life: people kept pitching me books to turn into shows with deeply upsetting messages.  Worse, the pitches for these grim titles would always start with a speech like, 'Kristin, I have this books that's perfect for you.  It's called My Formerly Hot Life.' About a woman who used to be hot, and is now forty. Or The Panic Years. About women 'on the wrong side of twenty-five without a ring. This book was pitched to me by a good friend, a producer who also happens to be a forty-five-year-old, happily single man.

What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding, Kristin Newman

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Is anybody else ridiculously excited for The Hate U Give movie?

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A few of my favorite things.

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Cabin life.

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Book List 2017

A little late, but here’s my “Read List” from 2017.

1. On The Road. Jack Kerouac. 2. The Fountainhead. Ayn Rand. 3. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. Douglas Adams. 4. The Hate U Give. Angie Thomas. 5. Dance Dance Dance. Haruki Murakami. 6. Slaughterhouse-Five. Kurt Vonnegut. 7. My Horizontal Life. Chelsea Handler. 8. Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls. David Sedaris. 9.The Fall. Albert Camus. 10. Norwegian Wood. Haruki Murakami. 11. A Court of Thorns and Roses. Sarah J. Maas. 12. A Court of Mist and Fury. Sarah J. Maas. 13. A Court of Wings and Ruin. Sarah J. Maas. 14. The Girl on the Train. Paula Hawkins. 15. Ready Player One. Ernest Cline.

Some observations: I read half the amount of books in 2017 as compared with 2016, and I added quite a few YA fiction books to my list.  It doesn’t even feel like I read On The Road in the same year as Ready Player One; 2016 was just that long and full of everything.

Will be posting thoughts on each novel as time goes by.

Currently reading You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero.  3/4 done, highly recommend.

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‪"What makes us most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal."

Norwegian Wood, Murakami

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‪"If you only read books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." -Norwegian Wood, Murakami‬

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What we call basic truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.

-The Fall, Camus

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You leave things to an interior designer and it ends up looking like this. Something you want to photograph, not live in. I have to knock on the walls to make sure they're not props. Antiseptic, no scent of life.

Dance Dance Dance, Haruki Murakami

[bookmania]

People don’t read books to ‘escape’. We read to find new parts of ourselves. We think we are in a one-room house. Books make you a mansion.

Matt Haig (via bookandcoffeelover)

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Favorite spot in Lancaster City

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If a ray of light falls into a pigsty, it is the ray that shows us the muck and it is the ray that is offensive.

-The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand

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Keating, where's your courage? Aren't you capable of sublime gesture on occasion? They all work so hard and struggle and suffer, trying to achieve beauty, trying to surpass one another in beauty. Let's surpass them all! Let's throw sweat at their face. Let's destroy them at one stroke. Let's be gods. Let's be ugly."

-The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand

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Keating leaned back with a sense of warmth and well-being. He liked this book. It had made the routine of his Sunday morning breakfast a profound spiritual experience; he was certain that it was profound, because he didn't understand it."

-The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand

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Summer morning + book + coffee + porch please