Mirror Self Shot of Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring”
(Source: rawbdz, via edwardspoonhands)
what can I say?
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"I do things like get in a taxi and say, ‘The library, and step on it.’"
David Foster Wallace
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Piece of Cake
Why? Why does that mean something is easy? MAKES NO SENSE!
Oh, I googled it, it makes sense now. Pieces of cake were the smallest and easiest prizes to get a silly festival competitions in the 1870s. Same origin as “cake walk.”
See, I’ve gone from faux-frustration to enlightenment in like 13 seconds thanks to the internet. Piece of Cake.
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book list for 2012
What I read this year:
(* reread)
- Small Favor by Jim Butcher (Jan.)
- The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson (Jan.)
- Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare (Jan.)
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Jan.)
- Flawless by Sara Shepard (Jan. - Feb.)
- Perfect by Sara Shepard (Feb.)
- Attachments by Rainbow Rowell (Feb.)
- Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare (Feb. - March)
- Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver (March)
- The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross (March)
- Unbelievable by Sara Shepard (March)
- The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson (April)
- I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella (April)
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor (April)
- The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman (April - May)
- Insurgent by Veronica Roth (May)
- Beastly by Alex Flinn (May)
- Turn Coat by Jim Butcher (reading now - May)
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“A Librarian’s Life” from Little Lyrics for Librarians by William Fitch Smyth (1857-1940)
(Source: nowandthenhereandthere)
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"When I’m 80 years old and sitting in my rocking chair, I’ll be reading Harry Potter. And my family will say to me, “After all this time?” And I will say, “Always."
Alan Rickman.
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