The Januaries |
I don't know what it is about January that leaves me in this weird state. The cold, the dark? Anyway, the only remedy I know is some light reading. Funny, sad, drama-filled, but definitely plot driven. None of this "cerebral" stuff, I just want to wrap up in my snuggie and be entertained for a few hours. |
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notesfor franny glass // will stratton
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"Just because I’m so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else’s values, and just because I like applause and for every else to rave about me doesn’t make it right. I’m ashamed of it. I’m sick of it. I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I’m sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of splash."
Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger (via bingodied)
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notes"I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody."Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger (via gilligankane)
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Cat’s Cradle
Overall, I really enjoyed it. It was an easy read, and definitely compelling. I wouldn’t really consider it a january-type read, but it was still really great (I mean, obviously, it is a classic).
Cat’s Cradle is Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of this century’s most important works…and Vonnegut at his very best. (description from the back of the book).
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Currently Reading: bl2
Franny and Zooey, J. D. Salinger (F, 20s, brown hair, nose ring, F train) http://bit.ly/9BJqxb
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notes"If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who." -
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notes"All of the true things that I am about to tell you are shameless lies."Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
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"There were many dogs, but not one barked. There were many infants, but not one cried. Here and there someone coughed - and that was all."
Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
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“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.”— Virginia Woolfe (via tobia)...
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