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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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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Part 2 of The Catcher In The Rye discussion.
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If you’ve never watched any VLOG BROTHERS videos, they’re hilarious, and definitely worth subscribing to.
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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.”
