February 2012
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City of Lost Souls Masterpost
catreadsbooks:
the cover
the chapter titles
the prologue
the teasers
the deleted scenes
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My experience with horrible staff at Waterstones...
For World Book Day in the UK, Harper Collins and Waterstones teamed up to make two young adult books £1 each. The lovely Maureen Johnson tweeted about this amazing offer on twitter so her fans could snap The Name of the Star up for £1.
I went into my local Waterstones today with Radiya to get a copy. Straight away the sales assistant there gave me more attitude than a hormonal internet deprived...
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“Shut your eyes and see.”
– James Joyce, Ulysses (via fishingboatproceeds)
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allyouneedisyayness reblogged your post: Book Review: Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
I forgot to review this when I finished it a few weeks ago but this review is great so I’ll just reblog it instead. Check out this blog, people. It’s awesome.
Also, favorite quote.
“Jesus Christ and his biological father”
(Can’t find it online so excuse me if that was not...
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Book Review: Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
Min Green and Ed Slaterton have broken up and Min is returning a box of Ed’s things along with this letter about why they broke up.
This book was exactly what I needed to get out of my reading funk (I’ve been having trouble getting into books lately and I haven’t been able to enjoy reading), it’s lighthearted and easy to read. I did notice that Daniel Handler did that...
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Cassandra Clare: so my husband is re-reading City... →
cassandraclare:
Him: I am starting to get what the Jace/Alec shippers are on about.
Me: Well, Alec likes Jace. That’s canonical.
Him: No. It’s the weapons room.
Me: The what?
Him: The weapons room.
Me: What about it?
Him: Whenever Alec and Jace have to be offstage, they’re always “in the weapons room.”…
Brilliant analysis
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“I cannot imagine how I will cope when I discover that my life is behind me, has...”
– S.J. Watson, Before I Go To Sleep
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“We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to...”
– S.J. Watson, Before I Go To Sleep
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A Collection of Rare and Obscure Words →
ifyoureallycared:
Cheiloproclitic - Being attracted to someones lips. Quidnunc - One who always has to know what is going on. Ultracrepidarian - Of one who speaks or offers opinions on matters beyond their knowledge. Apodyopis - The act of mentally undressing someone. Gymnophoria - The sensation that someone is mentally undressing you. Tarantism - The urge to overcome melancholy by dancing....
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youreacactus reblogged your post: J K Rowling writing a new book for adults.
srsly exciting and I’m excited so every dickhead on the guardian can shove off (idk guardian commenters just generally piss me off)
but yay. book event of the decade for me, perhaps
Wow! I didn’t even look at the comments. You’re right though, they’re all very rude.
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J K Rowling writing a new book for adults.
We’re sure that most of you must have already heard that J K Rowling is writing a new book for adults. Also she has switched publishing houses to Little Brown. (I don’t know about you but this seems like a big deal)
Here’s an article written by the Guardian in case you want to know a little bit more.
What do you think it will be about? There have been rumours that it may be a...
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Books of the Month: January '12
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. Points to the review I wrote about The Fault In Our Stars (contains spoilers)
This book is beyond brilliant. I can’t begin to express how much I adore it. This is the best book I have read so far this year.
My book of the month is The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I read the first book in January and it was pretty damn awesome. I can’t...
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“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via literaturesluts)
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Defensive reading.
ciganka:
Definition: jumping into a book, when the world becomes too much to handle.
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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the...”
– Franz Kafka (via travestyintechnicolour)
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Adored by Tilly Bagshawe- Book Review
I hated most of the characters. At times it was painful reading something with only like three redeeming characters with any sense of a moral compass. I found the whole novel irritating with the selfishness of most of the characters; their goals revolved around money, fame and power in Hollywood. Adored is mainly about the lives of members of the McMahon family, mainly young Siena who wants to...
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“I trudged along through each day in its turn, rarely looking up, eyes locked on...”
– Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood (via murakamistuff)
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“Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see...”
– John Green (via blastedamericansoul)
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“Writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being...”
– Charles Bukowski (via writeinspace)
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“I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or...”
– Sylvia Plath (via misswallflower)
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Cassandra Clare: CP2 and CoHF release dates →
cassandraclare:
Breathe, breathe. No suicide.
Clockwork Princess will not be out September 2013.
Just like it says on my website, there is no set release date for either Clockwork Princess of City of Heavenly Fire.
That is because we are still going around trying to figure out how to get the books out as …