June 2013
3 posts
What are your favorite classics?
I haven’t been adoring the books I’ve been reading lately, and I think I might just need a break from books published in the past two years. What old, old books do you love?
May 2013
10 posts
“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”
—Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via libranta)
“My dad loved the shit out of her and hardly ever knew what to say to her and she loved the shit right back out of him and filled the silent parts of their lives with books and coffee and other things.”
—A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews
“Swin found humans vastly unimpressive. There was no limit to their ability to disappoint.”
—Arkansas, John Brandon
April 2013
14 posts
“You may get screwed, but you have no choice but to hold your breath and roll the dice. This is the part at which you excel, the point where you have to register fear only with your brain and not let it invade your guts. You do the same thing with frustration and discouragement; they can never really touch you. You can acknowledge injustice and the absurdity of life while never getting weighed down by these things.”
—Arkansas, John Brandon
“Maybe he could be like them: kept happy because of low-stress work that occupied their minds, tired out their bodies, and gave them something to complain about. Their evening beers were all they needed.”
—John Brandon, Arkansas
i thought i disdained sheryl sandberg's ideas but actually i think "lean in" is really inspiring
I had no interest in reading Lean In, because I had seen Sheryl Sandberg’s TedTalk and figured I got her point but just didn’t like it.
And that point was: women should not scale back their ambition because they might have kids someday. Instead, women should lean in to their careers, because they don’t know if/when they’ll have kids and also, the world needs more female leaders.
It all seemed annoyingly preachy, as if Michael Phelps were telling us to train harder at the 400 i.m. without asking, “Hey, do you want to swim?”
Okay, now I need to read this book.
Ann Patchett - The Bookstore Strikes Back →
m.theatlantic.com
“If what a bookstore offers matters to you, then shop at a bookstore. If you feel that the experience of reading a book is valuable, then read a book. This is how we change the world: We grab hold of it. We change ourselves.”
