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“In three years of teaching, this is, by far, my favorite student error.”
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The Goodreads books added stats for Fifty Shades of Grey.
I’ve been doing this job for a while now, and I have never, ever...
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Okay, so. You guys.
I bought this at Word on Sunday and I read it on Monday and oh my God you guys it is a perfect book.
If you have ever been in...
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Book Shark
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How To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse
“The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.”
- Franz Kafka, The Trial
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself, into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously…”
― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
“The problem with unintended consequences isn’t with the consequences, it’s with the unintended. Just because you didn’t intend for something to happen doesn’t mean you didn’t want it to happen.”
- Charles Yu, Sorry Please Thank You
We’re so, so excited for this book, which comes out 7/24!
“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.”
— Horace Mann
Looks like whoever makes the fortune cookies for our local Chinese take-out place is a Mann fan. Or a book fan. Or a thinkexist.com fan. Either way, we’ll take this as a good omen for the week.
“What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.”
― Italo Calvino
“I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.”
― Emma Thompson
“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka
“At some point in your life, this statement will be true: Tomorrow you will lose everything forever.”
― Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
“listen: there’s a hell
of a good universe next door; let’s go”
― e.e. cummings
