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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
8:22 PM

You know you’re a lit nerd when you deliberately commit thoughtcrime, just to test how close George Orwell’s vision is.

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
6:31 PM

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

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."
6:46 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

February 6th
7:52 PM

You know you’re a lit nerd when the fastest way to your heart is to be told how ardently you are admired and loved.

7:40 PM
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7:29 PM

You know you’re a lit nerd when the fact that your parents named you after a literary figure seems almost like a premonition.

January 31st
12:00 PM

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 Hall, the home of the drop-dead-gorgeous Mr Rochester. Unsurprisingly, she falls for him and his brooding charm, making this something of a tale of unrequited love, but meanwhile, mysterious events and ghostly sightings are occuring throughout Thornfield…
You may be able to tell that I’m in something of a dramatic mood, but it’s hard to do Jane Eyre justice without being dramatic. It’s a sweeping, mysterious and passionate novel, and the characters of Jane and, of course, Mr Edward Rochester, are some of the most endearing in English Literature, if not World literature.

Read the first few pages here.

January 29th
8:14 PM

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 leave three red roses and the rest of the bottle of cognac at his gravestone before vanishing into the darkness. A tradition grew for local Poe fans to gather to watch the shadowy figure (or figures — common wisdom is that the tradition was passed from father to son), and read the cryptic notes he sometimes left behind. Sadly, this January 19th has come and gone for the third time without the appearance of the “Poe Toaster,” so by all accounts this tradition has come to an end. Unless, that is, we can entreat any enterprising Poe fan to take up the mysterious mantle next year.

I would have used Amontillado, but still, I love this.