my favorite story

“Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it’s such an interesting world. 

It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? 

There’d be no scope for imagination then, would there? 

But am I talking too much? 

People are always telling me I do. 

Would you rather I didn’t talk? 

If you say so I’ll stop. I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it’s difficult.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

fun board books!

I am digging these classic board books as new additions for the

bebe's library.

I am already having a great time reading to him before bedtime.

Unfortunately, my cough gets worse at night and I think it makes my voice sounds raspy...

Kind of like the smoking sisters from The Simpsons.

Ah well, smoking voice or not, at least the baby's brain is hearing lots

of stories and music during these last few weeks!

The Magician's Nephew

I read this first book in the Narnia saga about a year ago around Christmas time.  Charlie is now journeying through this awesome book and has been sending me some of his favorite quotes.  I just had to share a few because they are so encouraging...

"When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start to go right they often go on getting better and better."

On Prayer...

The children, Digory and Polly, just spend the day flying west (atop Fledge the flying horse) on a mission Aslan sent them on. They just landed to sleep for the night and will resume their journey the following day. The horse is munching on grass for dinner but the kids realize they don’t have anything to eat…

“But we can’t eat grass,” said Digory

“H’m, h’m,” said Fledge, speaking with his mouth full. “Well-h’m-don’t know quite what you’ll do then. Very good grass too.”

Polly and Digory stared at one another in dismay.

“Well, I do think someone might have arranged about our meals,” said Digory.

“I'm sure Aslan would have, if you'd asked him,” said Fledge(the Horse).

“Wouldn't he know without being asked?” said Polly.

“I've no doubt he would,” said the Horse (still with his mouth full). “But I've a sort of idea he likes to be asked.”

probably one of my favorite books

SO excited!

On the set of The Great Gatsby, November 18th

will have to make time to re-read

this looks awesome!

Mindy Kaling's (The Office) new book of essays Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Here's an excerpt: Best Friend Rights and Responsibilities (hilarious! you must read!) and here's a video clip. Hmmm... makes me want to write a book of essays.

‘You know, you’re a little complicated after all.”
“Oh no,” she assured him hastily.
“No, I’m not really - I’m just a -
I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night 

oh this book

“ Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go, with all that distance between us, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly.

— Jane Eyre

i loved this book

Corduroy.

reading Jane Eyer...this pic reminds me of Edward & Jane

Born Standing Up

going to read his autobiography next

another good book

"Sometimes the only company I want is that of a good book, a drink and a cashmere sweater."

Ashton Darian (via bourbonandpearls

(via sarasmiles)

loving my new read, 5th Avenue at 5 a.m.!

did you know audrey seriously disliked pastries?

she begged the direction to let her eat an ice cream cone
in the first scene rather than a doughnut

(Source: browneyedbellejulie)

Reblogged from theamericanlegacy

(via smit10)

i might just have to add this to my book list...

might just need to give this a read

"When she laughed you could hear her at sea, or so the sailors claimed."

T.C, House of Flowers  (Source: knockturn, via thatkindofwoman)

(Source: misswallflower)

whats up next...

After finishing Room this afternoon, I am seriously looking for some easy reading.

These are the two on my list:

"Ella Minnow Pea is an novel by Mark Dunn, copyrighted in 2001. The full title of the hardcover version is Ella Minnow Pea: a progressively lipogramatic epistolary fable, while the paperback version is titled Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters. Ella Minnow Pea is set on the fictitious island of Nollop, an isle 21 miles SE off the coast of South Carolina, and home to Nevin Nollop, the supposed creator of the well-known pangram "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." This sentence is preserved on a memorial to its creator on the island and is taken very seriously by the government of the island. Throughout the book, tiles containing the letters fall from the inscription beneath the statue, and as each one does, the island's government bans the contained letter's use from written or spoken communication. A penalty system is enforced for using the forbidden characters, with public censure for a first offense, lashing or stocks (violator's choice)..."

"Your initial reaction to Bill Bryson's reading of A Walk in the Woods may well be "Egads! What a bore!" But by sentence three or four, his clearly articulated, slightly adenoidal, British/American-accented speech pattern begins to grow on you and becomes quite engaging. You immediately get a hint of the humor that lies ahead, such as one of the innumerable reasons he longed to walk as many of the 2,100 miles of the Appalachian Trail as he could. "It would get me fit after years of waddlesome sloth" is delivered with glorious deadpan flair. By the time our storyteller recounts his trip to the Dartmouth Co-op, suffering serious sticker shock over equipment prices, you'll be hooked"

....

i think i've got the reading bug again

thank you summer time!

what i'm readin' now

"I had heard how good Room by Emma Donoghue was, but sort of dismissed it as tawdry, torn from the headlines pop fiction. I love that in a good Law & Order: SVU episode, but was unsure how I felt about it in literature. Not wanting to fully commit to owning it, I checked it out from the library... and (this always happens with library books) I CANNOT put it down and have been recommending it to everyone I talk to. Wow. The narrator is five year old Jack, who's entire world is contained in the one room in which he was born while being kept captive with his young mother. Reading this was deeply disturbing at some points, but ultimately heroic- I thought, 'Well, if this ever happens to me, now I know what to do to survive.' Hello, Jaycee Dugard. Your memoir is next."
{Happy Reading!}

I echo her sentiments

mmmm....

(Source: teachingliteracy)

why i love reading on trips...

"If you take a book with you on a journey,…an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it…yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else."

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Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)
(Source: justbesplendid)