November 2010
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Love Pirates by Joe Millar
I follow with my mouth the small wing of muscle under your shoulder, lean over your back, breathing into your hair and thinking of nothing. I want to lie down with you under the sails of a wooden sloop and drift away from all of it, our two cars rusting in the parking lot, our families whining like tame geese at feeding time, and all the bosses of the earth cursing the traffic in the...
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Book Meme Day 02 – A book that you’ve read more...
I have a feeling White Oleander will reappear in this book meme, given that my love for this book knows no bounds. This is the book I read before I write a short story; I flip through its pages and spot a sentence or two, cross my fingers for the dawning of an inspiration, instant transfer of talent. Janet Fitch’s language is BEAUTIFUL, EXOTIC, AND INTOXICATING. I get the shivers just...
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Book Meme Day 1: Best Book You Read Last Year
Nothing prepared me for the beautifully hallucinating quality of this book. A second reading is in order.
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I'm doing this guys. Who's with me?
The 30 day book meme
Day 01 – Best book you read last year Day 02 – A book that you’ve read more than 3 times Day 03 – Your favorite series Day 04 – Favorite book of your favorite series Day 05 – A book that makes you happy Day 06 – A book that makes you sad Day 07 – Most underrated book Day 08 – Most overrated book Day 09 – A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving Day 10 – ...
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Anonymous asked: Do you like Ray Bradbury? Have you read Fahrenheit 451?
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“It’s true. I never brought you a bouquet of sonnets, or served you haiku...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel, The Benjamin Franklin of Monogamy
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Parker Ehret: an email from David Thorne →
bibliowormed:
this made me laugh so hard that i cried…
Shannon (the secretary) has lost her cat and has asked David (the graphic designer) to help with a lost poster. This is their email correspondence…
From: Shannon Walkley Date: Monday 21 June 2010 9.15am To: David Thorne Subject: Poster
Hi I opened…
I just died. :D laughing.
seriously, you guys should see this!!!
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Anonymous asked: what's your religion?
Anonymous asked: You’re doing beautifully. Sam, you are sensational. :))) take care - thanks for answering my query 'bout Christmas thingy..^*^
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“Falling in love
, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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Someone said, "When Atwood is good, she is very...
The Woman Who Could Not Live With Her Faulty Heart I do not mean the symbol of love, a candy shape to decorate cakes with, the heart that is supposed to belong or break; I mean this lump of muscle that contracts like a flayed biceps, purple-blue, with its skin of suet, its skin of gristle, this isolate, this caved hermit, unshelled turtle, this one lungful of blood, no happy plateful. All...
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Anonymous asked: what is Christmas for you?
Anonymous asked: why don't you join the Palanca? I'm pretty sure you'd have a place there!
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insaudade-deactivated20120927 asked: hey there! I gathered from some of your previous posts that you live in the Philippines. I'm studying Philippine Literature and History as well as creative writing, and am looking to study abroad there next year-- it looks like my clearest options are Ateneo de Manila or UP Diliman. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks!
“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how...”
– WILLIAM FAULKNER (via ilovereadingandwriting) (via thejoyofrain) (via undocumented-change) (via readbooks)
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ampligenic asked: you are very beautiful!
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An Entomologist’s Last Love Letter by Jared Singer...
dear samantha i’m sorry we have to get a divorce i know that seems like an odd way to start a love letter but let me explain: it’s not you it sure as hell isn’t me it’s just human beings don’t love as well as insects do i love you.. far too much to let what we have be ruined by the failings of our species i saw the way you looked at the waiter last night i know you would never DO anything, you...
Anonymous asked: where did you graduate in high school?
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“All human love is a dramatic enactment of the wild, reckless, unquenchable,...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook
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“I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into...”
– Sylvia Plath (via creepsh0w) (via shoulderblades, narcosis) (via jesselerenard) (via floflotangerine) (via timetopretend) (via allthenight-tide)
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Marriage by Lawrence Raab
Years later they find themselves talking about chances, moments when their lives might have swerved off for the smallest reason. What if I hadn’t phoned, he says, that morning? What if you’d been out, as you were when I tried three times the night before? Then she tells him a secret. She’d been there all evening, and she knew he was the one calling, which was why she hadn’t...
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“Writers don’t need tricks or gimmicks or even necessarily need to be the...”
– Raymond Carver
I absolutely worship that last sentence. Amen, Mr. Carver, amen.
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“Writing is an activity that in my experience doesn’t get easier with practice.”
– Susan Sontag (via fredjordan)
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Admonitions to a Special Person by Anne Sexton
Watch out for power, for its avalanche can bury you, snow, snow, snow, smothering your mountain. Watch out for hate, it can open its mouth and you’ll fling yourself out to eat off your leg, an instant leper. Watch out for friends, because when you betray them, as you will, they will bury their heads in the toilet and flush themselves away. Watch out for intellect, because it knows so...
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