September 2011
1 post
5 tags
Sep 8th
7 notes
August 2011
3 posts
1 tag
I think it's nice that Voldemort always waits...
Despite his flaws, Voldemort really cares about Harry’s education.
Aug 21st
119,266 notes
Infinite Jest
(David Foster Wallace) Infinite Jest : brain : whale penis : mouth. random, related tumblr link: http://peopleholdinginfinitejest.tumblr.com/
Aug 11th
5 tags
Choose Your Own Adventure (Series)
(R. A. Montgomery) Using all ten fingers as bookmarks makes it kinda hard to turn pages.
Aug 9th
10 notes
July 2011
3 posts
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle
Turns out the only thing C.S. Lewis hates more than subtlety is Arabs.
Jul 26th
Green Eggs and Ham
Sam am I, I Sam am, am I Sam?
Jul 23rd
1 note
3 tags
One Hundred Years of Solitude
(Gabriel García Márquez) It’s like the slow parts in the Bible with all that genealogical lore and incest, but with a more satisfying version of Revelations.
Jul 21st
4 notes
June 2011
1 post
3 tags
Question for my followers
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, dare I even bother?
Jun 23rd
1 note
May 2011
0 posts
5 tags
May 1st
5 notes
April 2011
3 posts
3 tags
Stargirl
(Jerry Spinelli) Every time a guy rejects you romantically, just pretend you’re far too good for him anyway.
Apr 19th
6 notes
6 tags
POPism: The Warhol Sixties
(Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett) If this is what it was like to have a conversation with him, I woulda shot him too.
Apr 19th
9 notes
February 2011
1 post
4 tags
Ender's Game
(Orson Scott Card) The enemy’s gate is down.
Feb 21st
January 2011
7 posts
4 tags
Animorphs
(Series by K.A. Applegate) Every novel should include a mini flip book (War and Peace, anyone?).
Jan 28th
4 notes
4 tags
The Awakening
(Kate Chopin) Perhaps two wrongs don’t make a right, but apparently they can make a nudist.
Jan 14th
2 tags
Oedipus Rex
(Sophocles) Ugh, he nasty.
Jan 8th
5 notes
3 tags
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among...
(Maxine Hong Kingston) Whether you loved or hated this book, it probably got your panties in a twist all the same.
Jan 7th
3 tags
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(Mark Twain) “******”
Jan 7th
1 tag
Our Bodies, Ourselves
(Boston Women’s Health Book Collective) This ranks as the most embarrassing 13th birthday present you’ll ever receive.
Jan 6th
5 tags
The Watchmen
(Alan Moore, et al.) A great read with one MAJOR eyesore: super hi-cut 80s panty/leotards.
Jan 6th
December 2010
0 posts
3 tags
The Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty
(Jules Verne) This breadfruit mission and slavery are why white people are crazy.
Dec 1st
October 2010
1 post
4 tags
Hunger of Memory
(Richard Rodriguez) “Boo-hoo, I’m in denial!”
Oct 24th
August 2010
1 post
2 tags
Beowulf
(anon poet) While the challenges of real men don’t include bloodthirsty, lake-dwelling family units, feisty dragons, or endlessly alliterative speech, Beowulf is somehow the realest man around.
Aug 20th
1 note
July 2010
5 posts
3 tags
Choke
(Chuck Palahniuk) Who else read this at way too early an age?
Jul 31st
3 notes
5 tags
Skinny Bitch
(Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin) What better way to get beach-ready this summer than to read this veganorexic’s guide to self-hatred?
Jul 30th
3 tags
The Phantom Tollbooth
(Norton Juster) This is what a good kid’s book does: it makes you want to be a writer and an artist when you grow up.
Jul 22nd
4 tags
Invisible Monsters
(Chuck Palahniuk) This is not so much a novel as it is an Urban Outfitters bible from which wannabe indie girls extracted their senior yearbook quotes.
Jul 11th
4 tags
The Dharma Bums
(Jack Kerouac) If Buddhism is hip you can do a whole lot of nothing and just call it zen.
Jul 9th
4 notes
June 2010
12 posts
3 tags
The Stranger
(Albert Camus) This book shows why only the nonchalant, café-sipping, croissant-munching French could coin the term “anomie.”
Jun 28th
3 notes
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Oscar Wilde) The book from which 90% of hipster gay guys get their favorite quotes, and why not?
Jun 21st
12 notes
3 tags
The Bluest Eye
(Toni Morrison) If you have blue eyes and you love this book with a passion, you just might be missing the point.
Jun 20th
4 tags
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
(Douglas Adams) True literary legacy is Googling, Bing-ing, or Wolfram-ing “the answer to life, the universe and everything” and getting the same goddamn number every time.
Jun 12th
3 tags
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Jun 9th
3 tags
Atlas Shrugged
(Ayn Rand) If you’ve got this listed in your favorites on Facebook you either have very annoying friends or none at all.
Jun 9th
6 notes
3 tags
Ulysses
(James Joyce) Someone please read this for me so I can write a better sentence, thank you.
Jun 9th
3 tags
Things Fall Apart
(Chinua Achebe) Though I’m not saying I’d hire Okonkwo to run a daycare or anything, everyone reading this had to get behind the man at the bitter end.
Jun 8th
4 notes
3 tags
Dreams from My Father
(Barack Obama) This is the only book you should just listen to on tape; nothing is more hope-inspiring than hearing the President say the phrase, “Sorry ass motherfucker got nothin’ on me.”
Jun 4th
3 tags
Life of Pi
(Yann Martel) Man, fuck tigers, fuck the ocean, and fuck the truth while we’re at it.
Jun 3rd
4 tags
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
(Junot Diaz) The intricate referentiality of a tale that needs footnotes for its footnotes turns a nerdy, obese pariguayo into a true tragic hero.
Jun 1st
3 tags
Endymion
(John Keats) Apparently “a thing of beauty” is only a joy for the first few pages; no one’s really read this poem to the end, have they?
Jun 1st
May 2010
28 posts
2 tags
Little Women
(Louisa May Alcott) We could probably blame these plucky female antecedents for the Sex and the City franchise, but which of those cosmo-sipping mares would be the one to kick the bucket à la Beth?
May 31st
4 tags
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
(Eric Carle) A greedy caterpillar gnaws inefficiently through many things a caterpillar shouldn’t eat but still manages to become a lovely butterfly; preposterous much?
May 28th
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The Song of Roland
(author uncertain, 11th ct) Ambushed and outnumbered, Roland and his Frankish knights take down as many Saracen/Basque mofos as they can in the most awesome head-to-groin slicing way possible. (also check out Roland’s feature on badassoftheweek)
May 27th
3 tags
your kindle can suck it
Plug for book-bot. It’s not glamourous but they have over 14 thousand free books AND a dashboard widget for you mac geeks. So there. Now you have no reason not to be reading and reading something good. Put down that Dan Brown, I mean it! /plug
May 27th
3 tags
Charlotte's Web
(E.B. White) Even The Jungle didn’t make me want to quit bacon as much as this children’s book did.
May 26th
3 tags
The Iliad
(Homer) One wonders if the people who use ‘epic’ as an everyday adjective have even read this poem at all.
May 25th
3 tags
The Crying of Lot 49
(Thomas Pynchon) Symbolism, symbolism, EVERYTHING HAS SYMBOLISM!
May 25th
3 tags
Lord of the Flies
(William Golding) Thank God someone made an allegorical novel I can reference in snide comments at children’s birthday parties.
May 24th
7 notes
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The Little Prince
(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) The curious love of a petite man gives nobility to childhood perspectives.
May 24th
3 tags
The Scarlet Letter
(Nathaniel Hawthorne) Old New England slut-shaming has this message: priests ruin everything.
May 23rd
2 tags
Siddhartha
(Herman Hesse) Govinda proves that all a guy needs to find enlightenment is one epic bromance.
May 18th