February 2012
22 posts
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Nation's Educators Alarmed By Poorly Written Teen... →
The topic for my English Grammar class this afternoon.
Click for a link to the Onion article.
"Not to Put Too Fine a Point Upon It": How Dickens... →
housingworksbookstore:
Among writers quoted in the current edition of the OED, Dickens lags behind only Shakespeare, Scott, Chaucer, Milton, and Dryden for total number of citations (9,218). No one in the past two centuries comes close. Of the Dickens citations in the OED, 258 citations are the earliest recorded by the dictionary for a particular word, and 1,586 are the earliest for a particular...
Register to be a World Book Night 2012 Giver →
If I had the money to spend on buying 20 books for this, I would do it in a heartbeat.
Some day.
housingworksbookstore:
Do you love a book so much you want everyone to read it?
World Book Night launched in the UK in 2011 and saw passionate readers across that beautiful country, give 1 million books to light or non readers to spread the joy and love of reading. Reading changes lives and at...
“Dad, you’re missing it. There’s two dozen half naked centurions...”
– Me
“Madonna’s doing the halftime show. And she said she was NOT going to have...”
– My Dad
Parental Payback
TV Announcer: This is Super Bowl XLVI.
Me: 46? Wow. That mean you guys are even older than the Super Bowl! Weird.
Mom: Well I didn't feel nearly this old before supper.
January 2012
68 posts
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“Time comes to us softly, slowly.It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before...”
– If you come softly by Jacqueline Woodson (via effyeahyoungadultlit)
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“Now let’s all stop signing Internet petitions and go buy a book.”
– Choire Sicha, Saving the St. Mark’s Bookshop (From Itself) | The Awl
I’m with Sam on this thing.
(via housingworksbookstore)
“I could write a book about vomit.”
– Raphy
“The lesson is simply this: you just have to recognise that, no matter how much...”
– Warren Ellis, on killing stories. (via noisymime)
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I...”
– A Game of You by Neil Gaiman (via effyeahyoungadultlit)
