March 2012
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“Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one...”
– Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via murakamistuff)
“Never hurry and never worry.”
– E.B. White Charlotte’s Web (via blissfulmusings)
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Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
My copy of Madame Bovary is pocket-size with a bright red cloth cover, golden pages, a red ribbon, and gold lettering on the spine. Added bonus: a small sailboat etched into the front cover! It’s worn and faded and dusty and some of the letters have been rubbed away. It’s beautiful.
When I re-found it this month I hadn’t read it since high school, and I hadn’t read a...
Confession
Whenever I worry about breaking up with my boyfriend I have three immediate, panicky thoughts:
1) But I love him so much!
2) But I don’t want to die alone!
3) BUT OUR BOOKS ARE ALL MIXED UP TOGETHER IN A STORAGE UNIT IN ARIZONA! HOW WILL I GET MY BOOKS BACK!
“We’re flawed because we want so much more. We’re ruined because we get these...”
– Don Draper, Mad Men (via notacliche)
“I’ve reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than...”
– Nicole Krauss, Great House (via colourmegreenwich)
“I never could figure out why men thought they could impress a woman by making...”
– Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees
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“And so what I promised myself is that I would drive west until my car stopped...”
– The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
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“Thus a kind of bond was established between them, a constant commerce of books...”
– Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
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“And indeed, what is better than to sit by one’s fireside in the evening...”
– Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
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“Her inmost heart, however, was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked...”
– Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Why Finish Books? →
Re: Running the Rift (and Indiespensable...
lobsterhug said: I’m starting this tomorrow. I haven’t read The Marriage Plot yet. I haven’t really been feeling any of their choices since The Night Circus.
Yeah, I still love getting a big box of books and edibles/stationary/accessories, but I’ve been a little disappointed in the Indiespensable picks lately. In fact, off the top of my head, my top three of the recent shipments have...
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“At the end of some indefinite distance there was always a confused spot, into...”
– Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
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“Action for its own sake keeps people moving, makes them superficially...”
– Trauma Stewardship, Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky
My wild Friday night
Cranberry apple pie and white wine and Madame Bovary. Goodnight.
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“The new delight of independence soon made his loneliness bearable.”
– Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
“Slip quiety under the covers; hold his sleeping hand.
There is never anything...”
– Self-Help by Lorrie Moore (via travels-with-charley)
Saturday. Finally.
I have not read a book all week. This makes me crabby. Planning to remedy this today…
