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Chase a couple hearts, we could leave 'em in shreds
Meet me in the gutter, make the devil your friend
Just remember what I said, cause it isn't over yet

Get.Lost.In.The.Dark.To.Find.Yourself
-sig by Loafers-

I just finished <i>Eli</i> by Bill Myers, and started <i>The Personifid Project</i> by Ruth Bartlett. Love them both.

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"The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air."

"Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris. I have never read anything so hilarious in my life. There were a few parts where I literally thought I was going to laugh to the point of a brain aneurysm and death.

"After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of the these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations."

"For the first twenty years of my life I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but eventually I had to give it up. Throughout the next twenty-two years I lay still and discovered that after a few minutes I could drop off with no problem. Follow seven beers with a couple of scotches and a thimble of good marijuana, and it's funny how sleep just sort of comes on its own. Often I never even make it to bed. I'd squat down to pet the cat and wake up on the floor eight hours later, having lost a perfectly good excuse to change my clothes. I'm now told that this is not called "going to sleep" but rather "passing out," a phrase that carries a distinct hint of judgement."

"A week after putting her to sleep, I received Neil's ashes in a forest green can. She'd never expressed any great interest in the ourdoors, so I scattered her remains on the carpet and then vacuumed her back up. The cat's death struck me as the end of an era. It was, of course, the end of her era, but with the death of a pet there's always that urge to string black crepe over an entire ten- or twenty-year period. The end of my safe college life, the last of my thirty-inch waist, my faltering relationship with my first real boyfriend: I cried for it all and wondered why so few songs were written about cats."

"A few days later, with no trace of irony, he suggested that the history of the chocolate chip might make for an exciting musical. "If, of course, you found the right choreographer." "Yes," I'd said. "Of course.""

"Visiting Americans will find more warmth in Tehran than they will in New York, a city founded on the principle of Us vs. Them. I don’t speak latin but have always assumed the city motto translates to either "Go Home" or "We Don’t Like You, Either.""

Wow... timmeh reads?

(wow, i read that passage and got funny looks from the rest of my class)

Abhorsen

Yes, tim reads constantly. And did you read it all as one? Because it isn't.

well just because i'm an idiot and did...

Abhorsen

The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray

I feel darkish this week...

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^ By me and my SS *squiggle hugs*

^Ooh! Hope you enjoy it, JF.

I just finished reading Sense & Sensibility (Jane Austen)...it was my cruise reading.

Now I'm pretty busy with Catch-22 (Joseph Heller), for English, along with Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck).

Random: We also have recently read Life of Pi (Yann Martel) and The Stranger (Albert Camus) in English. Both were very thought-provoking and interesting to study.

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Thank you for five-plus wonderful years of obsession, friendship and fun

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^ By me and my SS *squiggle hugs*

How did you like Life of Pi, Riniel? I read it last year and I was disappointed when I had finished... and slightly bored while I read it... what's wrong with me?!!
But I would really like to read Camus - is he difficult?

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"The House of the Seven Gables" Nathaniel Hawthorne

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And as he looked into her eyes
Within the auburn of her hair
The trembling starlight of the skies
He saw there mirrored bright and fair

♥In a poly relationship with Kili and Tauriel♥

Virgin- Prelude to the Throne by Robin Maxwell

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Sea of Swords by R.A.Salvatore

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"...You can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest.Honestly,it's the honest ones you want to look out for..."

I'm reading Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, and I'm working on Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.

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Set 1: Nurr | Set 2: Me

Yeah! I love picking up on both the differences and the similarities. Like, the Phantom's lair is way different with the mirrors and everything, and who knew Raoul had a brother? Plus...the book Mme. Giry is...certainly different.


I thought it was a very enjoyable book, easy and fun to read. I was actually pretty furious when I finished the book because of the alternate realities he presents. I'm a truth-seeking sort of girl, so when he says: "Oh, whatever you want to believe, it doesn't really matter," it seriously messed with me. I liked his contrasting "dry factuality" and "the better story", but I felt like it was too narrow a statement for me. After all, just because you want to believe something doesn't mean that you should. Often, the truth hurts. But while truth is not always your favorite story, it does make a good story.
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Camus took a little getting used to, because his style was very dry and detached, but it adds to the effect of the main character's existentialism. (This is in The Stranger; I have no idea about his other works.) Once you actually read through it, it was really fun to analyze and peel back the layers on something that looked straightforward at first glance.

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Thank you for five-plus wonderful years of obsession, friendship and fun

[ugh, double post. ignore.]

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<center> all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us


Thank you for five-plus wonderful years of obsession, friendship and fun