I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE. Owning all those Stephen King novels can leave a reader happy for the rest of her life.
Top row, short stories. Bottom row, novels. I’ve only started with Birds of America (Like Life next), and I know how I’m going to be spending the rest of my summer.
"Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again."
Homer, The Iliad (via yaygeometry)
Chelsea M. Cameron, My Favorite Mistake
Donald Barthelme’s syllabus.
"That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet."
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake (via larmoyante)
Gorgeous photoset of “Little Women” illustrations! <3
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE SO MUCH LOVE.
just looking at them reminds me of the specific chapters that are illustrated. ♥ (also, Laurie!)
Books read yesterday
- Looking for Alaska (John Green)
- What is the What (Dave Eggers - nearly finished)
I guess it’s safe to say my nonrequired reading has been productive.
Mitch Albom, For One More Day
Vacation
By Deb Olin Unferth
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Review by Zet Diaz of Plane Tickets and Miss Contraire
“Between us we had space, silence. We had longing shooting one direction and nothing coming back. His despondency tied me to him. His jagged wanderings. His sad starlight vigils. I gave in to it. I went along.”
How do I even begin? I loved this book so much. So much that it pained me to finish it. I took my time with this because despite how depressing it was, I kind of enjoyed it. Ugh. Let’s get real. I really, really loved it.
Deb Olin Unferth is unlike any other. Her way with words is amazing, as I’ve said before, and reading this book just made me feel so lucky. More people should read her stories. You have no idea just how much you’re missing out on.
Okay. Enough gushing.
This book is about a man who follows his wife while she follows a stranger. That stranger goes out of town and the man goes after him. But that’s not all. The book shifts from narrator to narrator adding so much mystery to the story. The first chapter will get you hooked. You will not rest until you finish the whole thing. Trust me on this. (It’s so hard not to gush about a book as good as this.)
Please. Do yourself a favor and read Vacation. It will change you and make you feel things you’ve never felt about a book before.
One of my favorites.
“They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing to penetrate, failing to breathe the other’s air.”
― Joshua Ferris, The Unnamed
