March 2012
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“How much she wanted it — that people should look pleased as she came in.”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
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“People must notice; people must see.”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
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“But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
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“I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.”
– George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Anonymous asked: A really random question, but how do you keep books in such pristine condition in your bag? Mine tend to get bumped around and badly scuffed up!
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“We shall read all the evening and go to bed.”
– Virginia Woolf, diary entry January 2nd 1915
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Worst weekend to be sick.
I was really ill with a bad case of migraine and viral infection, a double whammy that put me in total bed rest for the last four-five days, sleeping about 16 hours a day and unable to sick up for longer than a few minutes at a time. I won’t go into more detail ‘cause it’d be TMI, but this is the result of being ill this weekend:
I missed a literary festival that I’ve been...
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“Books work from the inside out. They are a private conversation happening...”
– Jeanette Winterson, A Bed. A Book. A Mountain.
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Something that hasn’t happening in a long time: I have a crush on two people at the same time. They couldn’t possibly be more different than each other, and it feels kind of bizarre. I don’t actually want anything to happen, I’m happy in the little crush phase, but I think it’s funny.
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“You can possess a book without really owning it, though. Beyond ownership in a...”
– Blake Morrison, Twelve Thoughts About Reading
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“What I didn’t yet understand was the importance of taste and timing. Books...”
– Mark Haddon, The Right Words in the Right Order
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“We all read differently. You may think you know Maggie Tulliver or Esther...”
– Mark Haddon, The Right Words in the Right Order
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“It’s hard enough to explain your own passion, let alone why someone else...”
– Mark Haddon, The Right Words in the Right Order
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“Books are the true daemons: not the imaginary animals of Pullman’s...”
– Carmen Callil, True Daemons
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“A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books — the...”
– Blake Morrison, Twelve Thoughts About Reading 