February 2012
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Day 10: Name five absolutely great film...
Are there even five that I think are great? Let us see:
V for Vendetta (based off of a graphic novel by Alan Moore and David, the film took a LOT of liberties and made significant changes, and yet it was still powerfully compelling and made a significant statement)
Let the Right One In (this was a Swedish film based off of Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel of the same title…it is eery,...
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Woman: Can I have birth control?
Government: No.
Woman: I got pregnant because I didn't have birth control and I don't want the fetus. Can I have an abortion?
Government: No.
Woman: I gave birth to my child but since I wasn't expecting it, I can't afford daycare. Can I have help paying for it?
Government: No.
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“When the newspapers were full of alarms about Iran possibly developing a nuclear...”
– Howard Zinn on Kurt Vonnegut (via axelgonz08)
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I feel like there’s so much to talk about. In the fewest words possible: I’m more in love with New York than I ever have been.
The highlight of this weekend was probably my friends visiting from California: Stacia and Cindy (mothers) and Natalie (in elementary school) and Jared and Keach (my age). They were actually here for vacation, and I was able to meet up with them twice. I...
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Day 9: Your favorite quotes about books.
Jesus, I’ve run into so many delicious quotes about books/reading/writing (I feel like they all go hand in hand). But I remember maybe 2% of them. Here goes nothing:
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” -Oscar Wilde
“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is...
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Day 8: Your favorite quotes from books.
Shit this is difficult when I don’t have ANY of my favorite books with me. So this list is likely going to be brief and altogether incomplete.
“I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he...
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Day 7: The worst book you’ve read in the last...
Again, it’s difficult for me to think back through all the books that I’ve read in the last year to decide which one was the worst…but recently, I read The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet. It was interesting to say the least. Maybe it’s just me, but I couldn’t really get into it. It was a frustrating read, and when I finished it, I still wasn’t very sure what...
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cuttleflesh replied to your post: Day 3: Your favorite characters and which books they’re from
Ok. I just have to ask. WHY HELENA? She is the most insufferable character in that play. She’s whiny, she’s jealous, she’s a stalker, she is willing to be beaten/abused by the man she’s obsessed with, and in the end when he finally loves her ONLY BECAUSE HE IS THE ONLY ONE STILL UNDER THE...
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Day 6: The best book you’ve read in the last year.
I read so many books, it’s difficult to think back a year through them all. But the first that comes to mind is Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Besides The Importance of Being Earnest, this is the first of his work that I had come into contact with, and I honestly thought it was brilliant. I read it on a flight from New York to California, and I had just flown in from...
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“Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A...”
– Neil Gaiman, The Sandman (Volume 2, Part 6)
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