April 2012
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30 Day Book and Literature Challenge.
Day 3: Your favorite characters and what books they’re from.
This is going to be hard.
Ethan from Edith Wharton’s story Ethan Frome is definitely one of my favorite characters from literature. He’s so sad and so fed up with life, but finds it all renewed in Mattie. I love him, and I know there’s a lot of grumbles and shit talk about this book and about this...
After my last final
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30 Day Book and Literature Challenge.
Day 2: Your 5 least favorite books of all time.
1. Veronika Decides to Die- Paulo Coelho
I really hate when the author addresses the reader. Coelho does this a lot in this novel, and like, right in the middle of the story. So annoying.
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain
DISCLAIMER: This is by no means a bad book. This is a great book. I’ve read it about… 6 times...
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30 Day Book and Literature Challenge.
Day 1: Your 10 favorite books of all time.
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao- Junot Diaz
Mother Night- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Love in the Time of Cholera- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Satanic Verses- Salman Rushdie
In the Time of the Butterflies- Julia Alverez
Beloved- Toni Morrison
Jesus’ Son- Denis Johnson
Everything that Rises Must Converge- Flannery O’Conner (does it count...
god, i feel like i haven't read a book from start...
that’s gotta stop.
Hardcore.
My little cousin’s got this girlfriend now. She’s pretty, and I’ve never met her, but I know he likes her and I know she doesn’t want him to join the navy like the rest of us do. I should point out that he’s not little anymore, he’s almost eighteen and he definitely doesn’t want anything to do with me. He’s too cool now. He gets drunk. He’ll go...
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“I speak to you
every single night
before I try to force
my eyelids shut.
I...”
– Tyler Knott Gregson
