It is true that you don’t need to go somewhere far to unearth treasures. I just found these books inside the full-length cabinet of my cousin’s room.
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Odyssey by Homer
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
My cousin who owns the books is currently in the U.S. with his mom. I’m overjoyed to discover we have the same literary taste for bizarre, controversial and daring novels. Guess I don’t have to buy new books after all!
- 1 month ago
- 4
"It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it."
— Oscar Wilde, Irish writer and poet (via poetnine)
- 1 month ago
- 8
"Books are the true daemons: not the imaginary animals of Pullman’s brilliant imagination, but solid blocks of paper and print pottering along with you every moment of the day. There for you. Books are shields against a terror of boredom, that curse of most childhoods. What they offer does not change, and if the human race was separated from words and thoughts and stories, it would die. I took that legacy from my childhood, but more: a habit of comfort and enquiry. If something happened to me, if I felt something, I would go to books to read about others’ experiences, others’ thoughts, to find out what to do and what to think. Books tell you jokes, make you laugh, laugh with you."
— Carmen Callil, True Daemons (via distantheartbeats)
- 2 months ago
- 32
I just bought “The Alienist” by Caleb Carr tonight. I already have an e-book of the same title but I never started reading it. Why? Because I’m more comfortable reading on a real book.
So, Imagine that awesome moment when you get to find a paperback copy at a bookstore! I really wanted to buy this book last Saturday. But I was in a hurry to go home that time. So I hesitantly placed the book back on the shelf and made a mental note that I should buy it the moment I return.
I was able go to the bookstore this evening but I was a little sad because I could not find the book. I kept looking for it on the shelves. And to my relief: the book was just 5 shelves away from where I last placed it.
Now I can start reading! Special thanks to my sister; she lend me some money because I left my wallet at home! I can’t wait to finish this novel. I’m loving it now.
- 3 months ago
“One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” - Tessa Gray, Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
(Source: uselesslittlethings)
- 4 months ago
- 1493
"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."
— John Milton, Areopagitica
- 6 months ago
- 10
"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
— Voltaire
- 6 months ago
- 17
"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public."
— Winston Churchill (credits: I got the quote @ http://belatorbooks.wordpress.com)
- 10 months ago
FLOW is a quasi-mystic state. I’ve read about it and was surprised I experience this all the time. Most writers and artists experience flow. It is a state where creativity just stream out of no where, uncontrolled and unexpected.
For example, I write about a certain character (for a story), I write that he would be in his room painting and listening to music. Unaware, my hand keeps writing. Suddenly returning to my awareness, I’m surprised that he (my character) was able to go out of the room, went to a restaurant, ordered the most expensive dish and dashed out naked and shouting, “No one can control me!!!”
Do you experience flow?
- 1 year ago
- 3
Books! Books! And more books! How I wish to read them all! But first I have to learn French first! Hmmm…This pics just gave me idea.
(via silk)
- 2 years ago
- 103
