Read the Printed Word! Pretty much does what it says on the tin. Or blurb, if you prefer. Submissions welcomed - encouraged, in fact - so go for it! Just don't forget to tag the submission with the book mentioned. Also, if you want to discuss books, suggest books, review books, or pretty much anything else you can think of involving books, then just drop me a line. My home tumblr is www.onceaponanothertime.tumblr.com :)

Emily's bookshelf: read

Good Night, Mr. Tom
The Importance of Being Earnest
Favorite Poems
The Color Purple
Anna Karenina
The Complete English Poems
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Lyrical Ballads
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Fellowship of the Ring
A Tale of Two Cities
Collected Poems
The Collected Poems
The Turn of the Screw
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
A Christmas Carol
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë
Dracula


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April 1st
8:33 PM

Y’know, I’ve come to the conclusion that film adaptions of books are ten times better than the books themselves.

Pah ha, April Fools! Happy April 1st, lit nerds!

8:30 PM

You know you’re a lit nerd when you can never have too many bookshelves.

8:29 PM

You know you’re a lit nerd when, if you don’t leave a book shop with at least one books, you know the apocalypse is coming.

8:24 PM

You know you’re a lit nerd when you could sit in a book shop all day and just look at all the books.

8:21 PM

You know you’re a lit nerd when you felt like pulling an “Annie Wilkes” when an author kills off your favourite character.

February 20th
6:52 PM

You know you’re a lit nerd when there’s that one book that you use to prop up wobbly chairs… because there’s not really any other use for it.

February 17th
6:32 PM

You know you’re a lit nerd when “The Vagina Monologues” totally changed your perception of sexuality.

6:31 PM

You know you’re a lit nerd when a book has changed your life.

February 11th
9:37 PM
February 10th
6:02 PM

You know you’re a lit nerd when as soon as you finish one book you begin another.

5:54 PM

You know you’re a lit nerd when, after “Perfume” by Patrick Suskind, smelling a particularly nice perfume always leaves you wondering exactly what it was made from…

February 8th
6:51 PM
Via
"You can have absolutely nothing in common with someone, but if you have read the same books, you have something to talk about. Strangers strike up conversations on planes, in the crowded aisles of bookstores, and even online when they see someone reading a book they have read. They recognize a fellow traveler. They have a place to start. And that’s why I think we should have a universal required reading list, a Required Reading for Humanity project. We need a place to start. If we could construct for ourselves a list of books that are remarkable not for the statements they make but for the questions they ask and the modes of thought and inquiry they suggest, perhaps we could begin finding something like a common language. Perhaps we could begin answering the big questions together. Think of it as diplomacy by literature, global unity via the Socratic seminar."
6:47 PM

YOU KNOW YOU ARE A LIT NERD WHEN SPOILERS DONT BOTHER YOU BECAUSE THE THEMES MATTER MORE THAN THE PLOT

6:46 PM

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.
6:39 PM

Top 10 made-up literary couples.

I love the Jo March and Atticus Finch one! And Aragorn and Katniss Everdeen! And and and… :o