To Read...Someday

An aggregate collection of books I want to read and images aobut reading, books, and/or books that I like.

[historical-nonfiction]

Vintage library ads

[toreadsomeday]

Then the fight went out of control. It quivered their arms and legs and wrenched their faces into shapes of hatred, it urged them harder and deeper into each other's weakest points, showing them cunning ways around each other's strongholds and quick chances to switch tactics, feint, and strike again. In the space of a gasp for breath it sent their memories racing back over the years for old weapons to rip the scabs off old wounds; it went on and on.

Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

[toreadsomeday]

He could even be grateful in a sense that he had no particular area of interest: in avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.

Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

[toreadsomeday]

It simply wasn't worth feeling bad about. Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs. Economic circumstance might force you to live in this environment, but the important thing was to keep from being contaminated. The important thing, as always, was to remember who you were.

Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates

[toreadsomeday]

I feel like I've just finished my last book and here I am finishing another! I picked up Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger at McKay's used bookstore (aka: HEAVEN) in the Nashville area back in the fall and it had been sitting on my bookshelf, unloved, for quite a while. 

I guess it just called to me after finishing Outer Dark. After a read like that I needed something that oozed 'light beachy read.' I can say that I highly enjoyed this book. It's not particularly well-written (most of the book is overly descriptive, like a playwright dictating the costumes of the characters) and very much akin to the writing of The Time Traveler's Wife which I did not enjoy, personally. Some of the plot choices are iffy, but overall I couldn't stop turning the page because I HAD to find out what happened next. 

I was expecting a family-drama story about twins and came out with a paranormal ghost story that I was NOT expecting at all. 

Overall, I'd recommend it. Read it with low expectations, because that's a majority of the reason I liked it so much, I think! 

Rating: 3 stars

[toreadsomeday]

Alright alright. I've been absent for a while and that's because it literally took me from May to July to read one book. I KNOW. I'm very much behind on my 50/2013 challenge, but I thought I'd update you with my most recent conquest #8: Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy. 

I read it because a friend of mine is a McCarthy scholar and it was on the shelf. I was bouncing between Revolutionary Road and Nerd: A History of My People and not quite feeling content with either. I picked up the book around the 20th of June, so it's taken me less than a month, not pretty bad in my opinion. 

The book is definitely different. Overall, I really liked it. You don't really get attached to the characters, there's no resolution, I wasn't quite even sure of certain points in the plot but that's the point of it all, shrouded in darkness. It's about absence, absence of truth, of God, and of civilization. Much of the novel is devoted to traveling without seeing a single soul in Tennessee Appalachia only to finally come along a character in a nice vignette. 

It's just very Southern. And I like that. 

Rating: 3.5 stars on the goodreads scale, right between "liked it" and "really liked it" 

[ebookfriendly]

Children are made readers / a beautiful poster from Etsy http://ebks.to/137rYcK

[nicolrene-deactivated20130906]

I just have to share because this is the coolest of all the websites. You type in a book that you liked and it brings up a list of at least 10 books that you would probably enjoy as well.

So if you’re looking for a good read, check it out. www.whatshouldireadnext.com

[toreadsomeday]

For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.

C. S. Lewis, The Horse and his Boy

[toreadsomeday]

[cloudyskiesandcatharsis]

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother’s approval, a father’s nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.

Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven (via winningthebattleloosingthewar)

[wordsbydan-deactivated20181123]

7 Great quotes about libraries on photos of beautiful libraries

With libraries around the world in danger of extinction, Flavorwire posted a series of great quotes about libraries from famous writers. I decided to pair them with some of the world’s most beautiful libraries. You’re welcome;

Trinity College Library - University of Dublin

University Club Library – New York City

Admont Abbey Library – Austria

Real Gabinete Português de Leitura – Rio de Janeiro

Suzzalo Library at the University of Washington – Seattle

Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Canadian Library of Parliament – Ottawa

Click on the photo to see it full size. Support your local library, kids.

[meganmagellan]

[fishingboatproceeds]

A few days ago, I received an email from P. F. Kluge, my fiction writing professor from Kenyon College, saying, “Drop everything and read How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.” 

So I did, and what a book. Brilliant and ruthless. Don’t miss it.

[toreadsomeday]

I finished a book!

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. I liked it. Halfway through I was thinking about selling it back to Half-Price Books, but I'm keeping it now. Good for moral messages, gender, politics, imperialism, and a great view of history not often presented. Go read it! 

Honestly not sure what my next book will be. Though I am reading a book for one of my classes, soo...that counts. I never said the book couldn't be for class and it's definitely not a textbook. 

Next book to expect will either be All God's Children by Fox Butterfield or Wuthering Heights, which is currently starting the beginning of my book headboard along with my diary and my collection of remotes. 

[beamishbanderkat]

Let us all just take a moment to appreciate how beautiful the 2012 hardcover edition of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust is. Not only is it one of my favorite books and a lovely tale, but the design of the book is gorgeous and fits the story perfectly. And look at those new Charles Vess illustrations! The most beautiful book currently on my bookshelf in terms of design. And what an experience to hold and interact with this beauty. This is why paper books will never disappear.

[everything-is-connected]

[ Aggressively places on ‘to buy list’ ] 

[twomorebagels]

want want want want

[hobbitprincess]

I have the paperback version of this design and it is gorgeous.

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