February 2012
31 posts
Famous Authors' Breakup Stories
cinderellainrubbershoes:
“When my heart was broken and I was fifteen, I listened to Lou Reed’s Berlin over and over and walked around a lot in the rain, while my friends followed me looking worried and imploring me not to do anything stupid. Well, stupider than walking in the rain, anyway.” - Neil Gaiman
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“The boy I loved didn’t know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus, so he...
"Witch" by Marie Brennan
deepintrospect:
It didn’t take me long to dive into Witch, the sequel to Warrior by Marie Brennan. Just as the previous book had, it had me completely immersed in a world of turmoil from the beginning.
This book kept up with the fast-paced prequel easily and seemed to have a lot more story lines winding around the central plot. There was an addition of an almost-romance, which helped to...
“Nature, uncompromising, untamed, was no looking-glass for happy faces, or...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Pastons & Chaucer. (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
January 2012
37 posts
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable...”
– Carl Jung (via dewdropsoflove)
“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the...”
– Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion (via thebookishdark)
Bookbag Reviews My Dear Watson – a novel of...
mxpublishing:
“I started this book after an evening out, thinking I would just read a page or two to help me sleep… two hours later I’d read all of it. Margaret Park Bridges knows how to give a reader a good time. Each page beckons you hypnotically towards the next. It’s suspense filled, interesting, fun and, indeed funny to the point of farce on a couple of occasions.”
Four star reviews...
My Bookish Ways: Review: Horizon (Aftertime #3) by... →
mybookishways:
Cass Dollar and her young daughter Ruthie have settled into an uneasy existence at New Eden, after the events of Rebirth left her lover, Smoke, in a coma. She continues her affair with Dor, and is dedicated to Ruthie, her garden of new growth, and kaysev, which is essential to the food…
“Prose should be a long intimacy between strangers with no direct appeal to what...”
– Henry Green (via cinderellainrubbershoes)
