the written escape

I'm a 20-year-old book blogger from Toronto, Ontario. This blog is a response to the people who ask me what books I read and what they're about. Through this blog I intend to review and blog about my interest in books. I'm currently reading The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.

[booksandtea]

reading by Julianna Swaney on Flickr.

[bctrogues]

endless list of favourite books

↳ We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

“All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and my colored stones, all perhaps turned to jewels by now, held together under the ground in a powerful taut web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us.” 

[theclassicsreader]

I do not want to kill and dissect myself any longer, to find a secret behind the ruins.

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (via silentseas)

[erqo]

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Requiem For Blue Jeans | Bastille

[zodiac4thots]

The ‘Ho don’t do it....oh my god’ squad

Ho don’t do it: Taurus, cancer, capricorn, libra, aquarius, pisces

Does it: Aries, sagittarius, scorpio, leo, virgo, gemini

Oh my god: Taurus, cancer, capricorn, libra, aquarius, pisces

[doctaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

[thewrittenescape]

Fellowship of the Ring // Battle of the Five Armies 

[thewrittenescape]

The Heart Goes Last, Margaret Atwood - September 24, 2015

“Set in the near future where lawful people are locked up while lawless people roam free. It centres on Charmaine and Sam, who live in their car and survive on odd jobs, when they see an advert for Consilience, a social experiment offering stable jobs and a house in return for giving up their freedom every second month, swapping their suburban home for a prison cell.  However, unknown to each other Stan and Charmaine begin to develop obsessions with their "Alternates", the couple that occupy their house when they are imprisoned, leading to a nightmare of mistrust, guilt and sexual desire.” (from this article)

[vintagegirlonabike]

We don’t exactly know when Anne Frank died but today, on the 12th of March, we remember her death.

Rest in peace, Anne Frank.

[momqueer]

May her memory be for a blessing

[theparisreview]

Here’s a bit from Pratchett’s 2007 essay, “Notes from a Successful Fantasy Author: Keep it Real.”

[penguinrandomhouse]

We’re devastated to report that the world lost one of its greats today — the peerless Terry Pratchett has passed away at age 66.

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.” ― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

[thefeministme]

[highrelease]

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Tame Impala | Elephant

[isilluminating]

I have a small infatuation with Shirley Jackson.

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

It was one of those winter days that suddenly dream of spring, when the sky is blue and soft and clear, and the wind has dropped its voice and whispers instead of screaming, and the sun is out and the trees look surprised, and over everything there is the faintest, palest tint of green.

Shirley Jackson (via creatingaquietmind)

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truth can be painful. it can shatter many of your illusions. this is a paradox we have to accept— the extreme violence of liberation. you must be forced to be free. if you trust simply your spontaneous sense of well being, or whatever, you will never get free. freedom hurts.

Slavoj Žižek, The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (via samuel-beckett)

[batreaux]

you walk over to the chamber of secrets and whisper “i have a crush on my cousin”. the basilisk comes over to you and says “you totally misinterpreted the use of this chamber and also you’re pretty fuckin gross”

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I quit my dreaming the moment that I found you