March 2012
“i’m not planting stars in your palm to watch constellations sprout around your...”
– Megan Madgwick (via devouredbyghosts)
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55 Reading Questions
1. Favorite childhood book?
2. What are you reading right now?
3. What books do you have on request at the library?
4. Bad book habit?
5. What do you currently have checked out at the library?
6. Do you have an e-reader?
7. Do you prefer to read one book at a time, or several at once?
8. Have your reading habits changed since starting a blog?
9. Least favourite book you read this year (so far)?
10. Favorite book you’ve read this year?
11. How often do you read out of your comfort zone?
12. What is your reading comfort zone?
13. Can you read on the bus?
14. Favorite place to read?
15. What is your policy on book lending?
16. Do you ever dog-ear books?
17. Do you ever write in the margins of your books?
18. Not even with text books?
19. What is your favourite language to read in?
20. What makes you love a book?
21. What will inspire you to recommend a book?
22. Favorite genre?
23. Genre you rarely read (but wish you did)?
24. Favourite biography?
25. Have you ever read a self-help book?
26. Favourite cookbook?
27. Most inspirational book you’ve read this year (fiction or non-fiction)?
28. Favorite reading snack?
29. Name a case in which hype ruined your reading experience.
30. How often do you agree with critics about a book?
31. How do you feel about giving bad/negative reviews?
32. If you could read in a foreign language, which language would you chose?
33. Most intimidating book you’ve ever read?
34. Most intimidating book you’re too nervous to begin?
35. Favorite Poet?
36. How many books do you usually have checked out of the library at any given time?
37. How often have you returned books to the library unread?
38. Favorite fictional character?
39. Favourite fictional villain?
40. Books I’m most likely to bring on vacation?
41. The longest I’ve gone without reading.
42. Name a book that you could/would not finish.
43. What distracts you easily when you’re reading?
44. Favorite film adaptation of a novel?
45. Most disappointing film adaptation?
46. The most money I’ve ever spent in the bookstore at one time?
47. How often do you skim a book before reading it?
48. What would cause you to stop reading a book half-way through?
49. Do you like to keep your books organized?
50. Do you prefer to keep books or give them away once you’ve read them?
51. Are there any books you’ve been avoiding?
52. Name a book that made you angry.
53. A book you didn’t expect to like but did?
54. A book that you expected to like but didn’t?
55. Favorite guilt-free, pleasure reading?
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benedicthiddleston:
PERFECT MAN IS PERFECT.
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“I couldn’t look at you and breathe at the same time.”
– Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence (via youngfolksociety)
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lynnpham:
Nicki Minaj - Starships
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bamfbottomweasley:
people who leave the extra time on the microwave should be sniffed at passive aggressively
this^^^^
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Amy: You’re kinda super awesome.
Lassie: (nods) Thanks for noticing.
—Psych, Heeeeere’s Lassie
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“These days I just can’t seem to say what I mean… I just can’t. Every time I try...”
– Haruki Murakami (via skeletales)
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“You will find meaning in life only if you create it. It is not lying there...”
– Osho (via awakenthisspirit)
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emilyrosemarie:
Travelin’ Soldier - Dixie Chicks
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“Let the waves of the universe rise and fall as they will. You have nothing to...”
– Ashtavakra Gita (via awakenthisspirit)
The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart - Jack Gilbert
scatterlings:
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite. Love, we say, God, we say, Rome and Michiko, we write, and the words get it all wrong. We say bread and it means according to which nation. French has no word for home, and we have no word for strict pleasure. A people in northern India is dying out because their ancient tongue has no words...
