I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ‘How can you not have time?’ I read when I’m drying my hair. I read in the bath. I read when I’m sitting in the bathroom. Pretty much anywhere I can do the job one-handed, I read.
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Whether you come back by film or by page, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
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Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people than I feel on my own.
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I have advice for people who want to write. I don’t care whether they’re 5 or 500. There are three things that are important: First, if you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair. And second, you need to read. You can’t be a writer if you’re not a reader. It’s the great writers who teach us how to write. The third thing is to write. Just write a little bit every day. Even if it’s for only half an hour — write, write, write.
— Madeleine L’Engle
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Date a girl who doesn’t read because the girl who reads knows the importance of plot. She can trace out the demarcations of a prologue and the sharp ridges of a climax. She feels them in her skin. The girl who reads will be patient with an intermission and expedite a denouement. But of all things, the girl who reads knows most the ineluctable significance of an end. She is comfortable with them. She has bid farewell to a thousand heroes with only a twinge of sadness.
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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.-Louisa May Alcott
“Resolution #1: Ugh - will obviously lose 20 lbs. #2: Always put last night’s panties in the laundry basket. Equally important: will find nice sensible boyfriend and stop forming romantic attachments to any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, sexaholics, commitment-phobics, peeping toms, megalomaniacs, emotional fuckwits, or perverts. Will especially stop fantasizing about a particular person who embodies all these things.”
This Is Where I Leave You sounds like a really serious title and this book does have some very serious parts but mostly it is hilarious. Like laugh out loud hilarious. The best kind of humor in my opinion is sarcasm and banter, and this book is chalk full of both. This is another grown up book, because I am trying to branch away from the trashy romance teen novels (not that I don’t still love them) I usually read. And the only complaint I have so far about “grown up” books is that they all talk about how depressing growing old is. They talk about it to the point that I either feel like I am old too or I am still young but not appreciating my youth and maybe not doing enough crazy things. Anyway the main character in this book is a 32-year-old man named Judd. The book starts off with Judd learning his father has died. Life is already pretty crappy for Judd because two weeks ago Jud walked in on his wife doing the nasty with his boss and now he is living in this Chinese couples basement.
Not only must Judd attend his father’s funeral but he must sit “Shiva” with his family as well. Sitting Shiva is a Jewish tradition where all of the family members of the deceased come together for seven days and mourn the lost of their loved one. The family sits Shiva all in the same house and everyday friends and members of the community come over and bring food and visit. So basically Jud has to chill with his entire family in the same house for a week straight. I don’t know about your family, but let me just say that my extended family cannot stay in the same room together without someone shouting and storming out for more than 4 hours straight, let alone 7 days. This book goes through those seven days and it is hilarious, and tragic, and heartwarming all at the same time.
I really enjoyed this book because it dealt with tough issues but was hilarious at the same time. Some parts made me sad though. When the main character Judd talks about failed marriages and a group of women who he calls “the sad moms” I can’t help but wonder if I will end up divorced or even worse a “sad mom.” The sad moms are stay at home thirty something’s who complain about life and how fat they are and are just depressed with life in general. I don’t know. Seems kind of silly to worry about that though and a major point I got from this book is that I should enjoy being young while I can, because it doesn’t last. Crap. I hope I haven’t turned you off from the book with my sad little ramble. Seriously, its an awesome book, I really enjoyed it, and it is immensely better than Twilight.
