Keira Knightley is reading Wartime: Britain 1939-1945 by Dr. Juliet Gardiner.
You can buy this book here.
Keira Knightley is reading Wartime: Britain 1939-1945 by Dr. Juliet Gardiner.
You can buy this book here.
29/50. Currently Reading: Matched by Ally Condie (young-adult, dystopian)
I posted about this book previously and so I’m very excited to be reading it now! I had read the first three chapters whilst reading Pride and Prejudice and I wanted to finish that first (I enjoyed it very much, by the way) before I started reading Matched.
“Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s hardly any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one… until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she’s known and a path no one else has ever dared follow — between perfection and passion.”

Recomendation: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli.
This book was recommended to me by my dear friend Ali and I can tell you that it was one of the best recommendations I have ever received.
It’s such an amazing book. The characters are so funny and sassy, the story flows so easily and the plot is super cool. The mystery of who Blue is just kept me reading and reading and I couldn’t put it down. The book is brilliant and Albertalli got me hooked from page one.
One of the many wonderful things about this book is that the side characters are all really awesome, not just Simon (though Simon is the most awesome one of them all), which just makes the story even more interesting. Not to speak of all of the Harry Potter references - Simon is a big Potterhead - that were a joy for me every time they appeared.
Seriously, I don’t know what you’re waiting for. Go get your copy right now and start it right away. Nothing else matters! READ THIS BOOK!
Currently reading: The World Before Us by Aislinn Hunter.
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There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
A man reading a book about a gorilla to a gorilla (Source: http://ift.tt/1OVdx5p)
I love the idea of going into a coffee shop, sitting at a table next to the window, and reading a book between sips of hot coffee :)
Agreed. A wonderful situation.
When I read a book whose author is dead I can’t help but sense the ghost reading over my shoulder — Nabokov’s chuckle as I flip back through a chapter in eager perplexity, before he teleports to the classroom of an hopelessly inept college English professor whose lectures he never misses; Woolf’s satisfaction at my satisfaction at her use of “staccato” to capture the movements of a sparrow’s head, her inaudible agreement, yes, that line was one of my favorites, too, it came abruptly, following a struggle, yet long after I’d given up.
Yes. Writing a book is the easiest thing in the whole world. In fact, let me show you just how easy it is!
Goal: change all this paper into a book.

Eh, not that hard. I mean, you just have to read, right?

Maybe scratch a few notes in the margins as reminders.
