May 2012
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So close...
Just one more final (ugh, Admin) and one more paper to go (Info Privacy Law) and I will be done with 1L year.
Seriously, it can’t come soon enough. Thursday (and freedom!), here I come!
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Legend has it Winthrop wrote and delivered ‘A Model of Christian...
– Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates
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It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the...
– Mary Roach, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can...
– Thomas Pynchon
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Dystopias should be insurgent. They should force readers to question who they...
– Paolo Bacigalupi, The Invisible Dystopia | Kirkus Book Reviews (via annaetc)
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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
– Christopher Morley
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There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or...
– Looking for Alaska by John Green (via snarkyme)
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Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but...
– Virginia Woolf
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As a law student, when it feels like I don't go...
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April 2012
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contiguous, adj.
I felt silly for even mentioning it, but once I did, I knew I...
– The Lover’s Dictionary, David Levithan
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Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things...
– Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot (via prettybooks)
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Justice John Paul Stevens, in conversation with Linda Greenhouse at Yale Law School this past week.
I was fortunate enough to be at this event in person, and Justice Stevens is just incredible. He just turned 92 a week ago and is still sharp as a tack!
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Read in 2012, Book #31
All My Friends are Still Dead by Avery Monson & Jory John
I don’t know that there’s really a way to describe this one. It’s a picture book. For adults. Totally morbid, totally hilarious, totally worth the 5 minutes it takes to read. And then re-read 300 million times while you laugh hysterically.
Read it. Also, read the original (All My Friends Are Dead). It’s...
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Read in 2012, Book #30
Pure by Julianna Baggott — Book #1 in the Pure trilogy
WOAH. The world of Pure is brutal. The story revolves around a few different characters — Pressia, a teenage girl living after the Detonations, and Partridge, a Pure living in the Dome, are the main two. Basically what happened is that there was some kind of nuclear war and when the (extremely ominous-sounding,...
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Read in 2012, Book #29
The Diamond of Darkhold by Jeanne DuPrau — Book #4 in the Books of Ember series
So The Diamond of Darkhold is the last book in the Books of Ember series. This book sees the people of Ember (still living alongside the people of Sparks) through their first winter. Lina & Doon travel back to Ember to seek out a mysterious device that they believe will help them, and they think is still...
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thegrayofit replied to your post: Read in 2012, Book #27
Any post that says “I love love love love love love John Green” is the post for me. And makes me love you. So.
YAY. Seriously, John Green is amazing. I’m just sad it took me so long to pick up his books! Next up is going to be Paper Towns and then (FINALLY!) The Fault in Our Stars. I’m saving the extreme tear-jerker for last.
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Read in 2012, Book #28
Chopsticks by Jessica Anthony & Rodrigo Corral (illustrator)
I’m not totally sure how to describe Chopsticks except to say that it’s a bit of an experiment. Remember the phrase “A picture is worth a thousand words”? Well, Chopsticks is an attempt to show that pictures can portray a story just as well as words on a page. Chopsticks is a mystery, and the story of a...
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Read in 2012, Book #27
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
I love love love love love John Green.
Seriously, the man can do no wrong. Will Grayson, Will Grayson (which he did with David Levithan, whom I also love) was absolutely fantastic, and Looking for Alaska was one of the best books that I read in 2011. An Abundance of Katherines was just as wonderful as those two were. I feel like Colin is my kindred...