June122010
“Had he but turned back then, and looked out once more on to the rose-lit garden, she would have seen that which would have made her own sufferings seem but light and easy to bear—a strong man, overwhelmed with his own passion and despair. Pride had given way at last, obstinacy was gone: the will was powerless. He was but a man madly, blindly, passionately in love and as soon as her light footstep had died away within the house, he knelt down upon the terrace steps, and in the very madness of his love he kissed one by one the places where her small foot had trodden, and the stone balustrade, where her tiny hand had rested last.”

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Emmuska Orczy (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

Love this book.  My favorite (non HP) series is actually loosely based off of the world created by it. 

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June12010
“Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and good.
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,
Our pastime and our happiness will grow.” William Wordsworth (via knockturn) (via fairphantom)

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May312010
“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and…play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.” The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

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5AM
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

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3AM
“Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever. Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.” Animal Farm, George Orwell (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

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May302010
“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life—and one is as good as the other.” Ernest Hemingway (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)

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1AM

Books to read this summer:

  • Finish Pride and Prejudice
  • Reread To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Read The Secret
  • Read The Kite Runner
  • Reread Wuthering Heights
  • Read A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as a few other Shakespeare plays.
  • Reread The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

I’ll probably add books to this list eventually, but for now this is a basic aim.

Reading literature books Summer 2010 

May292010
Currently reading: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen. My senior year I pretended to read this book for a bookshare in my AP Lit class, a risky move since I hadn’t even seen the movie.  I had all intentions of reading the book, but my Granny promised to buy it for me, so I waited.  Instead of just the book she bought me a complete works book.  It was too late for my report, but it makes a good lead into summer. It’s a very natural, easy read.  My AP style-trained brain gets a little hung up on the differences in spelling such as “shew” instead of “show”, but overall it’s a pretty quick read and not too difficult to get through.  So far I’m impressed with how well the recent movie adapted from it.

Currently reading: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen.

My senior year I pretended to read this book for a bookshare in my AP Lit class, a risky move since I hadn’t even seen the movie.  I had all intentions of reading the book, but my Granny promised to buy it for me, so I waited.  Instead of just the book she bought me a complete works book.  It was too late for my report, but it makes a good lead into summer.

It’s a very natural, easy read.  My AP style-trained brain gets a little hung up on the differences in spelling such as “shew” instead of “show”, but overall it’s a pretty quick read and not too difficult to get through.  So far I’m impressed with how well the recent movie adapted from it.

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May282010
My favorite book on Elizabeth I is I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles.  It’s painstakingly accurate, and the most encompassing book I’ve read on her.  It walks through her entire life, masked as a diary or autobiography.  It’s really intriguing, and it does a good job of not sensationalizing, but not covering up the scandals of her life.  I really recommend it to anyone who is interested in Elizabeth I.

My favorite book on Elizabeth I is I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles.  It’s painstakingly accurate, and the most encompassing book I’ve read on her.  It walks through her entire life, masked as a diary or autobiography.  It’s really intriguing, and it does a good job of not sensationalizing, but not covering up the scandals of her life.  I really recommend it to anyone who is interested in Elizabeth I.

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