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My sin. My soul. Lo-lee-ta. by asummertimesadness on Flickr.
7d Day .003 [Late Upload- Christmas Reading] by WickerBasket on Flickr.
Free! by jiji-bean on Flickr.
coffee and a book by byronv2 on Flickr.
“La blanche” by Tigrou  on Flickr.
Five Little Pigs by The Moog Image Dump on Flickr.
365 day 070 by xojustmorganox on Flickr.
summer reading by ruminatrix on Flickr.
barretta: For a book as good as this is (and several chapters in, it’s very, very good), it sure does have a creepy cover. The text is lyrical, sad, strange: magical, even, in places. The cover attempts to evoke the tales of gardens, fairies and fated pairings within, and somehow falls nauseatingly short. The composition is pretty bad, and the colors have faded in a sickly fashion, though I don’t think they were great to begin with. The real issue, here, is their faces: what should possibly be a troubled expression on the face of the lover listening to the shell is instead testy, as if she’s waited too long in heavy traffic or some hapless barista has added an excessive amount of cream to her caffe macchiato; meanwhile, a mustache that I can only assume was intended to be rakish lends this dreamy young man the unpleasantly shifty look of a door-to-door insurance salesman. In short, it’s exactly the kind of cover that one finds irresistible in a used book shop.
toomuchkipple: Day 17 - Favorite quote from your favorite book I don’t have one favourite book. While H.P. Lovecraft might be my favourite author and I might have a favourite book by him, I like him for his entire body of work and his philosophy - thus it is not my all-time favourite book. I think what is your favourite quote would have been a better question, as favourite book and favourite quote might not be the same thing…  I think my favourite book is The Sot-weed Factor by John Barth, although my copt is in storage, so I don’t have it to hand to pull out a quote from… but thanks to GoodReads here’s a great quote. I can’t say i remember it, but it’s definitly one that would leap out at me now being a perfect example of cosmic-pessimism: “My dear fellow,’ Burlingame said, ‘we sit here on a blind rock careening through space; we are all of us rushing headlong to the grave. Think you the worms will care, when anon they make a meal of you, whether you spent your moment sighing wigless in your chamber, or sacked the golden towns of Montezuma? Lookee, the day’s nigh spent; ‘tis gone careening into time forever. Not a tale’s length past we lined our bowels with dinner, and already they growl for more. We are dying men, Ebenezer: i’faith, there’s time for naught but bold resolves!” But there are many many many other great quotes in this book, but i can’t quote them verbatim from memory. 
comediva: “Teen Movies Based On Unlikely Literature,” by Kristen Bobst “Madame Bovary Emma breaks up with controlling boyfriend Charles just one week before prom. Everyone at the Bovary School was certain that Emma would be prom queen! But can a girl be a queen without a king? Emma decides to date one fella a day until the weekend before prom to decide who she will take. Could it be Rodolphe, the school’s rich kid? Or Mock U.N. Club President Leon? Maybe Lheureux, the sullen emo dude? Will Charles win Emma back despite her new suitors? Will Emma realize it’s OK to go to prom alone, or will she spike the punch bowl with arsenic?”
chxnce: A few of my favorite books. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.  M or F? by Lisa Papademetriou and Chris Tebbetts. The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket. (I actually have read the entire series and loved every single one of them!) In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Monster Island by David Wellington. Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.
chrisgoneglobal: “Studying” in Bebek