February 2012
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You know you're a lit nerd when there's that one...
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You know you're a lit nerd when "The Vagina...
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You know you're a lit nerd when a book has changed...
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You know you're a lit nerd when as soon as you...
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You know you're a lit nerd when, after "Perfume"...
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal,...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via bookmania)
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You know you're a lit nerd when you get an...
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“You can have absolutely nothing in common with someone, but if you have read the...”
– Required reading…for everybody? | BOOK RIOT (via hungry-for-books)
onone-san asked: This blog is perfection. I'm totally sincere. This is the more beautiful and intresting blog I've ever seen. Thank you for creating this.
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YOU KNOW YOU ARE A LIT NERD WHEN SPOILERS DONT...
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I have an idea...
How about I run some literary confessions? Just message me your confessions, and I’ll put them up to see if we all feel the same?
Literary crushes/ shipping,
Things you liked/ disliked against popular opinion,
How you would have preferred a novel to end,
Pretty much anything else, I’m intrigued as to what could come up.
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Top 10 made-up literary couples. →
I love the Jo March and Atticus Finch one! And Aragorn and Katniss Everdeen! And and and… :o
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You know you're a lit nerd when the fastest way to...
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You know you're a lit nerd when you read classics...
Anonymous asked: You know you're a lit nerd when you feel sorry for Rochester despite the fact he locked his wife in the attic.
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You know you're a lit nerd when if you haven't...
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You know you're a lit nerd when you get half-way...
12. The first novel you remember reading.
I read a lot of short novels at around the same age, so I’ll stick a couple down.
“Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” by J.K Rowling.
It was inevitably going to come up at some time. The Harry Potter books were the books of my childhood, and I used to be totally obsessed by them. I had all pf the merchandise, loved the movies, and could recite large passages by...
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11. A book I hated.
Ah, I’mma lose followers for this…
“Catcher in the Rye” by J.D Salinger.
I’ll keep this one brief, as I don’t want to put people’s backs up, but honestly, I found the plotline lacking, which I could have coped with if not for the narrator’s cocky and frankly irritating tone. I know a lot of people like this book, and a lot don’t -...
January 2012
62 posts
“The bed we loved in was a spinning world
of forests, castles, torchlight,...”
– Anne Hathaway by Carol Ann Duffy from The World’s Wife ‘Item I gyve unto my wife my second best bed …’ (from Shakespeare’s will)
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10. Favourite classic book.
Ah, I’ve already said “Wuthering Heights”… so my other favourite…
“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte.
Yet again, not the edition I have (unsurprising, as mine is older than I am). “Jane Eyre” was the first classic novel I ever read, at the tender age of 11. The basic plotline is that Jane Eyre, an orphan, becomes a governess at Thornfield...
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9. A book you didn't think you'd like but ended up...
“One Day” by David Nicholls.
I bought this book in a second-hand shop because a lot of people had said good things about it, and I decided to give it a go. It’s not really the sort of thing I’d normally enjoy, and then when I started it, I found it very slow and depressing, so I put it to one side, and decided I’d read it another day. That other day came, and...
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Cult Literary Traditions for Truly Die-Hard Fans.
Taken from http://flavorwire.com/251506/10-cult-literary-traditions-for-truly-die-hard-fans, written by Emily Temple.
10 Cult Literary Traditions for Truly Die-Hard Fans.
The Poe Toaster.
For 60 years, every January 19th, on the anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday, a mysterious figure would visit Poe’s grave in Baltimore, pour himself a glass of cognac, raise a toast to the author, and...
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You know you're a lit nerd when you call famous...
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Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" in... →
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You know you're a lit nerd when holding a kindle...
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You know you're a lit nerd when you know Byronic...
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You know you're a lit nerd when a day rearranging...
8. Most overrated book.
Ah, time for the unpopular opinions, I’m afraid…
“Lord of the Flies” by William Golding.
The storyline is that a plane full of schoolboys crashes on an uninhabited tropical island and they’re “very naughty” (an understatement). Their little castaway community is basically driven to civil war after being plagued by mysterious “Beast” of the...
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7. Most underrated book.
Okay, this is too difficult, so I’m changing this one to “most underrated author”, and shall therefore do two of Christopher Isherwood’s novels.
“Goodbye to Berlin” by Christopher Isherwood.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the edition I have, as mine, yet again, seems to be out of print. I first read this book because I was studying Nazi Germany for History,...
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writingforsanityssake asked: I've made a submission, but it's with a gif, and I didn't know if you accepted those. Though the text can very well stand on it's own, I just love the gif, so I thought I'd send it in case you accepted them. I won't be offended if you don't ;)
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ijustwannaopenyoureyes asked: Thanks for reblogging literacypickuplines and adding the url under it. :) You helped us gain some followers! :D And great blog, by the way. :)
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6. A book that makes me sad.
“A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens.
Following the Dickensian theme that seems to be haunting this blog lately… This isn’t the copy I have, which seems to be out of print.
“A Tale of Two Cities” is a story about an ex-prisoner of the Bastille and those around him, including his new-found daughter Lucie, and the way in which he is recalled to life, and...