“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it.
Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner
This is true. (Which is why literacy is important. As is instilling the power of critical thinking in the reader. Question everything.)
True.
My favourite place to read is really anywhere so long as I can spread myself out. Couch, rug, bed, whatever feels best. This is because I’m a fidgeter. I flip-flop around a book like it’s the only thing I have to hold onto in a storm.
— Kate Beaton (x)
YOU OTHER READERS CAN’T DENY
WHEN A BOOK WALKS IN WITH A GOOD PLOT BASE
AND A BIG SPINE IN YOUR FACE YOU GET SPRUNG
WANNA PULL OUT YOUR PENS
‘CAUSE YOU NOTICED THAT BOOK WAS DENSE
READING, HALF-RIMS I’M WEARING
I’M HOOKED AND I AIN’T CARING
OH BABY I WANT AN E-READER
AND A MEANINGFUL METER
MY TEACHERS TRIED TO TRAIN ME
THAT BOOK YOU GOT MAKES ME SO BRAINYYES.
(Source: thedailywhat)
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
- Margaret Atwood (via bookmania)
The beginnings of an informal survey…
What was one of your favorite books during childhood? You may list more than one.
Extra credit: are you a lady or a gentleman, and what year were you born?
I have some ideas about children’s literature….and also about those who were reading “above grade level” as kiddoes.
Extra extra credit: Reblog This! Let’s spread this survey around!
Thanks for playing,
Laura Dickinson-Turner
But of course.
Mais bien sur.
I love that I am a book lover, a word lover, a day dreamer, a thinker, a doer.
Reading at Tsutsujigaoka, Japan. (by Julien Guertault)
I like it when Tumblr friends share what they are reading. I like reading, but don’t get to do much reading for pleasure during the semester. I really loved Eugenides’ Middlesex and, of course, The Virgin Suicides. I will have to put this on the “To Read” list.
Reading.
About General Vagaries.
