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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NotesMacy: Wes, come on, are you seriously not aware of how girls stare at you? Wes: Let’s get back to the idea of you being perfect. Macy: Seriously. What’s it like? Wes: Being perfect? I wouldn’t know. Macy: Not being perfect. Being…gorgeous. Wes: Again, I wouldn’t know. You tell me. Macy: Donneven. We’re not talking about me. Wes: We could be. Macy: I’m not gorgeous. Wes: Sure you are. Macy: You have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. Wes: Bit? Macy: You know what I mean. Wes: And you have that whole blonde, cool and collected, perfect smart girl thing going on. Macy: You’re the boy all the girls want to rebel with. Wes: You are the unattainable girl in homeroom who never gives a guy the time of day. -
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The Truth About Forever
What Sarah has to say about her book.
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Notes"Life can be long or short, it all depends on how you choose to live it. It’s like forever, always changing. For any of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You can never know for sure, so you’d better make every second count. what you have to decide is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, is this how you’d want to have spent it?"The Truth About Forever, Sarah Dessen
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The Truth About Forever
We love her books. We especially love the covers because they’re probably the reason we started reading them in the first place. Oh, Sarah Dessen, what would teenage girls do without your insight on the bleak world of high school and improbably perfect love stories?In, what I would call, Dessen’s best novel, we see a girl who is trying to rebuild her life based on perfection after the traumatic death of her father. Over the summer Macy meets a group of people who show her that life isn’t perfect and doesn’t need to be. It’s a heart-wrenching, romantic (of course) story that you won’t be able to put down. The perfect cure for the januaries.
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Notes"Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for planning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college."Paper Towns, John Green
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John Green reads his very own book - Paper Towns.
Everyone should read this and the rest of his books NOW. My favourite. So perfect.
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Paper Towns
John Green quickly became one of the young adult authors to read. His debut novel, Looking For Alaska, won the Michael L. Printz Award in 2006. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines was a Michael L. Printz Honor Book. Both books are fantastic (and MUST READS), and his third just as much. John Green also is known as one of the vlog brothers, on youtube.
When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night—dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows her. Margo’s always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she’s always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q … until day breaks and she has vanished. Always an enigma, Margo has now become a mystery. But there are clues. And they’re for Q. (from Goodreads.com)
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Paper Towns by John Green; bl #1a
5/5 stars
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“When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me,...”
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“Read widely, & without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.”— Joyce Carol Oates, “To a Young Writer”...
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“I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.”
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“For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot...”
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“A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.”
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“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”— — Isabel Allende (via teachingliteracy)
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“The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.”
