kevin wilson the family fang 2011 the best book i’ve read since russell’s swamplandia! add me on goodreads for reviews and such.
21st Feb 2012✧16:483 notes
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"a book is as private and consensual as sex."

~   chuck palahniuk
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30th Aug 2011✧21:2715 notes
currently reading: rant by chuck palahniuk (amazing art by jacob magraw)
23rd Jun 2011✧22:424 notes
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"a country’s culture can be assessed by the extent to which its lavatory walls are smeared."

~   adolf loos, ornament and crime, 1908
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28th Feb 2011✧01:127 notes

"he had been dead some months, but was often present in my quiet house when i slept, out of his bed and once, curiously, lying beside me in mine."

~   doris grumbach, fifty days of solitude
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22nd Oct 2010✧20:15

"i believed they were here and so i saw them far more clearly than the pictures of my grandchildren or drawings framed on the walls."

~   doris grumbach, fifty days of solitude
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4th Oct 2010✧22:28

i’m officially addicted

to the library. it probably wasn’t the best idea moving in right next door, because every time i look out my window to see the gargoyles, i’m reminded of just how many books are being held inside those walls. currently, i have ten books checked out. two are non-fiction, the other eight are fictitious.

currently i am reading my little war by flemish author louis paul boon. its one of only a few books written by him to be translated from its original flemish. it was first published in 1947, but wasn’t translated for us until this year. i’m only thirty pages in so far, but it seems wonderful. 

people ask me how i find books in that library, eight stories full of thousands of books. i have no secret; i simply find a floor (today was the seventh floor, literature and language) and walk through the aisles until a name catches my eye. i wish i could live in that library, but the chairs are very comfortable and the guards aren’t too inviting.

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12th Aug 2010✧19:11
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