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Book #6
Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a collection of quirky, comedic, emotional, and romantic short stories. We read the Great Gatsby for English this year in school and fell in love with Fitzgerald's writing so I decided to drop by vromans and grab a copy of this. I absolutely loved these stories with all my being. Fitzgerald is beautifully able to dictate the conflicts between characters and their changes through the story while making it laughable as well. I did like that these were short stories because i could finish and read a new one pretty quickly. A lovable book that is now near and dear to my heart.
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To celebrate my 300 followers, I am doing a book giveaway!
Here are the rules:
Only reblogs count. You can reblog as much as you want but don’t spam your followers
You must be following bookpillows. (This giveaway is about thanking my followers after all)
No giveaway blogs!
You must be willing to give me your address. I promise this information will be kept confidential and secure.
Your ask box must be open so that I can contact you if you win. If you do not reply within 24 hours I will move on to the next winner.
Three winners will each pick One book. The winners will be chosen through a random number generator.
The winners will be able to chose any of the books listed above.
This is an international giveaway, but I will be using the book depository, so make sure your country is listed on their page.
This giveaway ends on May 3, 2014.
If you have any questions direct them here.
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Best Author-on-Author Insults in History
Virginia Woolf on James Joyce: [Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
Harold Bloom on J.K. Rowling: How to read ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.
H. G. Wells on George Bernard Shaw: An idiot child screaming in a hospital.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Jane Austen: Miss Austen’s novels . . . seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world.
William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway: He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
Ernest Hemingway on William Faulkner: Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
W. H. Auden on Robert Browning: I don’t think Robert Browning was very good in bed. His wife probably didn’t care for him very much. He snored and had fantasies about twelve-year-old girls.
Mark Twain on Jane Austen: Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
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And then, just as nonchalantly as though Horace Tarbox had been Mr. Beef the butcher or Mr. Hat the haberdasher, life reached in, seized him, handled him, stretched him, and unrolled him like a piece of Irish lace on a Saturday-afternoon bargain-counter.
Flappers and Philosophers, Fitzgerald pg 75
#flappers and philosophers#head and shoulders#Horace Tarbox#stories#f. scott fitzgerald#literature#books
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To celebrate my 300 followers, I am doing a book giveaway!
Here are the rules:
Only reblogs count. You can reblog as much as you want but don’t spam your followers
You must be following bookpillows. (This giveaway is about thanking my followers after all)
No giveaway blogs!
You must be willing to give me your address. I promise this information will be kept confidential and secure.
Your ask box must be open so that I can contact you if you win. If you do not reply within 24 hours I will move on to the next winner.
Three winners will each pick One book. The winners will be chosen through a random number generator.
The winners will be able to chose any of the books listed above.
This is an international giveaway, but I will be using the book depository, so make sure your country is listed on their page.
This giveaway ends on May 3, 2014.
If you have any questions direct them here.
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Hermione Reading before Bed by ~Lincevioleta
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Book #5
Because I myself am a Whovian, I came across Agatha Christie's writing in the episode The Unicorn and The Wasp, being suddenly interested, I picked up on of her books (the one with a wasp on it) from my local bookstore. I did enjoy this book a lot. It was enigmatic and kept the reader guessing. Death in the Clouds is one of Christie's ongoing series about the detective Hercule Poirot. Each book has a different story, not corresponding to the others so one can read any of the books in any order they choose. Going into this, i had a certain expectation that the writing would be eloquent and beautiful, but instead, it was normal and modern. I later realized that it was the plots that were so clever that made Agatha Christie known as the Queen of Mystery
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Reading is the Gateway to Imaginary Places
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Book #4
I read this book last year for school and I absolutely loved it. Unfortunately for 2013 me, my over-thinking lead to over-annotating and thus I was unable to finish it last year. Upon realizing i still needed to finish it, I recently picked it up and fell back in love with it. Fahrenheit 451 was written in the early 1930's about a dystopian future in which people are glued to their substance-less media and firemen are there to burn books, not put fires out. The haunting aspect of this book and probably why it is so important in literature today is the fact that Ray Bradbury predicted things in the 30's that were thought never to happen such as; people having "seashells" in their ears day and night, not paying attention to others, people mindlessly chatting about nothing, human beings being so dependent on electronics that they consider them "family". Yet people today are achieving this dystopian reality, depicting just how predictable the human race really is.
READ. THIS. BOOK.
#fahrenheit 451#book#literature#classic#reread#paperback#burning#value#Guy Montag#clarisse mcclellan#ray bradbury#a favorite#phoenix#salamander#beetle
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