#lit reading

[softboyshaven]

Do you ever just want to gently take someone's hands and be like "Baby,this is a headcanon,not a reading of the text."

[letlovelightlife]

[fakecriswell]

The future of live lit readings

GREETINGS, MY FRIENDS. As is our usual custom, we celebrate #FutureFriday today with a salute to our predicting brothers and sisters! You know who you are... don’t you?

Today’s prediction is all about the rough and tumble world of live lit readings!

I predict that within the next 5-10 years, live lit readings will be all the rage, thanks to a loophole in the federal tax code laws that allows authors to deduct arbitrarily large sums of money for work devoted to the reading of live lit! As a result I predict that (a) writers will have a slightly better time in our future, and (b) nearly everyone you know will be hosting a live lit reading series.

And that’s it! Enjoy your weekend, my friends, and tune back in on Monday for something resembling your future!

[astrangerhere]

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

Nick Hornby | How to be Good

[infinitereading-blog]

All about my challenge...

I realised that the total extent of my knowledge of ‘literature greats’ consists only of Orwell thanks to an in-depth class study of 1984 whilst I was 16 years old. I decided that I’d missed out on far too many great classics and essential modern literature and so I decided to take matters into my own hands… Here is my list of essential books that I currently own from a Guardian Top 100 list or something, most of which I would like to read before I die (or maybe within the next two years so that this doesn’t run forever). I started this challenge approximately 1 month ago. The titles with lines through them denote the ones that I have already enjoyed. The underlined titles are the ones that I have started and not yet finished (I expect that I’ll be stuck on Ulysses forever!) Please feel free to join me on this journey and make your own comments/opinions of the list or make your own suggestions. A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway A Journey to the Center of the Earth -Verne A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man -Joyce A Simple Soul  -Flaubert A Tale of Two Citiesi -Dickens Adventures of Sherlock Holmes-Doyle Animal Farm  -Orwell Anna Karenina  -Tolstoy Anthem  -Rand Atlas Shrugged -Rand Axolotl  -Cortazar Brave New World -Huxley Catch 22  -Heller Common Sense -Paine Complete Original Maupassant -Maupassant Complete Oscar Wilde Collection -Wilde Crime and Punishment -  Dostoyevsky Dracula  -Stoker Dubliners -  Joyce East of Eden  -Steinbeck Emma  -Austen Ethan Frome-Wharton Fahrenheit 451 -Radbury Flatland  -Abbott For Whom the Bell Tolls -Hemingway Frankenstein-Shelley Great Expectations  - Dickens Heart of Darkness - Conrad I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings -Angelou Little Women  -Alcott Lord of the Flies -Golden Madame Bovary   -Flaubert Mansfield Park  -Austen Metamorhosis  -Kafka Moll Flanders-Defoe My Antonia  -Cather My Uncle Jules-Mauppasant Of Human Bondage.azw -Somerset Maugham Of Mice and Men  -Steinbeck One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest  -Kesey  Sentimental Education - Flaubert Something Wicked This Way Comes - Bradbury Sons and Lovers - Lawrence Tender is the NIght  - Fitzgerald The Age of Innocence - Wharton The Beautiful and Damned  - Fitzgerald The Bell Jar  - Plath The Brothers Karamazov  - Dostoyevsky The Catcher in the Rye  - Salinger The Count of Monte Christo.  - Dumas The Crucible  -Miller The Divine Comedy  - Dante The Fountainhead  - Rand The Grapes of Wrath  - Steinbeck The Great Gatsby  -Fitzgerald The Happy Prince  -Wilde The Idiot  -Dostoyevsky The Illustrated Man  -Bradbury The Metamorphosis  -Kafka The Old Man and the Sea -Hemingway The Other Two  -Wharton The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde The Portrait of a Lady  -James The Satanic Verses - Rushdie The Scarlet Letter  - Hawthorne The Stranger  - Camus The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway The Trial  -Kafka The Virtue of Selfishness - Rand Their Eyes Were Watching God -Hurston This Side of Paradise  -Fitzgerald Three Musketeers  -Dumas To Kill a Mockingbird  -Lee Tropic of Cancer  -Miller Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea-Verne Ulysses  -Joyce Vanity Fair  -Thackeray Walden  -Thoreau Women in Love -Lawrence Wuthering Heights -Bronte

[chicodeorox]

Tomorrow, I'm starting an endeavorer to read the entire works of Ayn Rand. 

First up:Anthem