May 2013
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lets do a thing. reblog and add your city and...
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Shanghai, China
Pisa, Italy
Longkou, China
Brisbane, Australia
University Place, USA
Salamanca, Spain
Cambridge, England
London, England
Siuntio, Finland
Edinburg, USA
Johannesburg, South Africa
Dubai, UAE
Munich, Germany
Goedereede, The Netherlands
Antwerp, Belgium
Zurich, Switzerland
Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands
Calgary, Canada
Chesham, England
Tulare, USA
Vallauris, France
Las Vegas, USA
Stuttgart, Germany
Chester, England
Mullingar, Ireland
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There's going to be a Digger Omnibus Kickstarter
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stophelping:
I repeat, there is going to be a Kickstarter for the Digger Omnibus. Everyone, prepare your wallets. This is not a drill. This is happening. We are making this happen.
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“Women have always fought,” he said. “Shaka Zulu had an all-female force of...”
– “‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley — A Dribble of Ink
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me : I read Joe Hill’s first book, The Heart-shaped box and it didn’t do a whole lot for me to be honest, so I haven’t tried any of his others. But I’ve since read that his first was also his weakest so maybe I’ll try again. I agree that The Passage wasn’t really that scary, but very gripping for such a big book. As I mentioned on my blog I haven’t read the sequel yet but I will, at some stage :)
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“An Orange Prize nominee speaks out about her experience as a woman in...”
– “Sexism is over!” | MetaFilter
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“But Clovis said, his voice low and mean, “Wait a minute,” as if she were a mule...”
– Hariette Arnow - The Dollmaker, pg. 338
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Among them was a damning memo from the colony’s attorney general, Eric Griffith-Jones, a man who had described the mistreatment of the detainees as “distressingly reminiscent of conditions in Nazi Germany or Communist Russia”. Despite his misgivings, Griffith-Jones agreed to draft new legislation that sanctioned beatings, as long as the abuse was kept secret. “If we are...
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“It was as if the war and Henley’s death had been a plan to help set her...”
– Hariette Arnow - The Dollmaker, pg 139
“‘Gert, Gert,’ her mother cried, more angry than sorrowful,...”
– Hariette Arnow -The Dollmaker, pg. 65
April 2013
46 posts
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Maths Magic: “259 x your Age x 39 = ?” Just try it, you will get an interesting result. R-T if you like it.
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THIS new idea — that writers, scholars and artists who stand against orthodoxy or bigotry are to blame for upsetting people — is spreading fast, even to countries like India that once prided themselves on their freedoms
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“To human is to yearn, I think, … To want. To need. What you already have,...”
– Patrick Ness - The Crane Wife, pg 180
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“The inability of people to see themselves clearly. To see what they are actually...”
– Patrick Ness - The Crane Wife, pg 180
cmykchick replied to your quote: Stories do not explain...
Not only do we seem to be underlining the same passages, we’re doing it at about the same rate : )
me : :) Everything I've read that Ness has written is just full great ideas and lines.
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“Stories do not explain. They seem to, but all they provide is a starting point....”
– Patrick Ness - The Crane Wife, pg. 141-2
cmykchick asked: so far, I've underlined *exactly* the same passages from The Crane Wife as you posted here. I've highlighted others, too, but those three…
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“Girls are all about best friends, even when you hate each other”
– Patrick Ness - The Crane Wife, pg 87
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“But what good is being smart when you speak words and no one hears the ones you...”
– Patrick Ness - The Crane Wife, pg 86
clockworkmossheart : started following you
me : hello!
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“At her core, she was broken, and life was just one long attempt to distract...”
– Patrick Ness - The Crane Wife, pg. 51
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“There were as many truths-overlapping, stewed together-as there were tellers....”
– Partick Ness- The Crane Wife, pg. 42
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“Who knew if he was right, who knew such things any more, the right words for...”
– Patrick Ness -The Crane Wife, pg.9
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“A word sprang to his groggy, shivering mind. It had sounded like a keen....”
– Patrick Ness - The Crane Wife, pg. 7
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Watch(via Joss Whedon’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ releases UK trailer - video - Movies News - Digital Spy)
skyrius asked: Hi! If you're interested, could you please check out my book blog? Thank you! :)
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