January 2011
43 posts
“No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people...”
– Lemony Snicket (via contrive)
December 2010
106 posts
“If you start pretending you’re having fun, you might have a little by accident.”
– Batman Begins (via julie911)
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Day Sixteen: Favorite Female Character
The Age of Innocence - Countess Olenska
Pride and Prejudice - Elizabeth Bennet
Nancy Drew series - Nancy Drew, Bess Marvin, George Fayne… but most especially George Fayne. :)
Twilight - Alice
Harry Potter - Hermione Granger
Emma - Jane Fairfax
“Once I wanted to be the greatest,
No wind or waterfall could stall me”
– Cat Power (via musesofhumanity)
Admit it. You're the 'advice giver' to a...
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Day Fifteen: Favorite Male Character
Pride and Prejudice - Fitzwilliam Darcy
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes - Eric Calhoune
The Count of Monte Cristo - Edmond Dantes
The Three Musketeers - Aramis
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Day Fourteen: Favorite book of your favorite...
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Persuasion
William Shakespeare - (these aren’t exactly books…) Much Ado About Nothing, A Midnight Summer’s Dream, As You Like It, Twelfth Night
William Wordsworth - (he’s a poet) I like most of his poems.
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Day Thirteen: Your Favorite Writer
… writers. Jane Austen, William Shakespeare and William Wordsworth. The latter two aren’t novelists.
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Day Twelve: A book you used to love but don’t...
(Making up for lost time.)
None, because whatever titles I’ve gotten around to loving are still being loved. And besides, I don’t love a certain book easily, so there’s a lot of love for the ones already loved. (I am faintly aware that I may be no longer making sense, but I don’t care.)
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Day Eleven: A Book You Hated
(I’m making up for lost time.)
I don’t think I’ve ever hated a book, but I have disliked some. Peony in Love by Lisa See was one of them. It was inspired by a Chinese classic (Peony Pavilion), and actually has characteristics of an okay-book, but it’s just that I really dislike the heroine damsels-in-distress who kill themselves for somewhat foolish reasons (I’ll...
francewithgrace asked: keesh, could you recommend me any book that would be worth reading?? i'm bored.. i wanna read something, anything!!!! haha.. :D
“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead.”
– Marilyn Monroe (via kari-shma)
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Day Ten: Favorite Classic Book
I missed two days of tumblr!! Ugh. Should be on day 12 by now, but whatever. Let’s get this done! :) My favorite classic book… I can’t really single one out, because I’ve always preferred classics to contemporary works. Favorite classic books it is then.
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen — first classic book I’ve ever read
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen...
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Day Nine: A book you thought you wouldn't like but...
I don’t think I have such a book. I wouldn’t read it if I didn’t like it in the first place. It’s more like me thinking I’d like a book then it would end up as a total bore.
