THAT PLACE WHERE I POST THINGS

sea-change:

MARY FUCKING SHELLEY.  ’oh, i’m a nineteen year old female in a world where females are basically valued only as mothers, grieving over the loss of my child, disowned by my father, in dire financial straights, stuck in a country that’s not my own, ignored and cheated on by my husband, and belittled by my husband’s friends?  how am i going to deal with this?  WHY DON’T I COMPLETELY CHANGE THE RULES OF LITERATURE, MOTHERFUCKERS?  AND WHILE I’M AT IT, I’LL SIMULTANEOUSLY INVENT AN ENTIRE NEW GENRE, AND WRITE THE FIRST NON-RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTH.’

(via borgevino)

lestradehasthephonebox:

If you think about it, Marius and Cosette are the opposite of Romeo and Juliet.  They fell in love and everyone else died.

(via blameitonthesilence)

shedisenchants:

shedisenchants:

so every year after the juniors finish reading The Great Gatsby my high school english teacher throws a Gatsby party at his huge house and everyone shows up in period clothing and Charlestons to 20s music and my english teacher just wears a suit and stands off to the side staring wistfully out the window the entire night

you guys think I’m joking??

(via hey-mayonegg)

notsufferingfrominsanity:

the really ugly duckling was the story of my life

Award-winning children’s author E.L. Konigsburg dies in Virginia at age 83

neil-gaiman:

FALLS CHURCH, Va. — E.L. Konigsburg, an author who twice won one of the top honors for children’s literature, has died. She was 83.

I loved “From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler”. I loved reading it as a boy, and I loved reading it aloud to my kids.

thescienceofreality:

posssitive-vibrations:

love my new book

So pretty, I need this in my life.

gorgonetta:

wordsbydan:

7 Great quotes about libraries on photos of beautiful libraries

With libraries around the world in danger of extinction, Flavorwire posted a series of great quotes about libraries from famous writers. I decided to pair them with some of the world’s most beautiful libraries. You’re welcome;

1. Trinity College Library - University of Dublin
2. University Club Library – New York City
3. Admont Abbey Library – Austria
4. Real Gabinete Português de Leitura – Rio de Janeiro
5. Suzzalo Library at the University of Washington – Seattle
6. Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
7. Canadian Library of Parliament – Ottawa

Click on the photo to see it full size. Support your local library, kids.

This is a wonderful set.  I wish United States-based public library administrators and zeitgeist-setters would pay special attention to the Bradbury and Twain quotes.  The dumbing-down and de-archiving of public library collections in this country is making it harder for someone to use the library to give themselves an education in anything beyond pop culture, current news, and what it takes to be a good employee (not a good thinker, or a good person, or a good citizen), and is rapidly eroding our collective memory.

javeliner:

think about the concept of a library. that’s one thing that humanity didn’t fuck up. we did a good thing when we made libraries

(via androidsconundrum)

rebekahriot:

astreetcarnamedthetardis:

the best moment in literary history is by far the time in the odyssey when odysseus and his bros stab polyphemus the cyclops in his eye but he thinks odysseus’ name is “no one” so he thrashes about the cave screaming “NO ONE BLINDED ME!!!” and the other cyclopes are like “oh my god polyphemus SHUT UP”

If you don’t know this story or don’t think it’s funny, we can’t be friends

(via mundanesundays)

straygray:

All illustrations are by Adriaen Coenen (1514-1587), a Dutch fishmonger, amateur biologist, natural philosopher, illustrator, and fantasist. They come from his Visboek (Fishbook), which he began when he was sixty-three years old. A fishbook was like an amateur almanac that fishermen and sailors might keep during their voyages.