January 2012
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…action scenes are often like sex scenes — they are just hanging there, an...
– Maggie Stiefvater writing five things about the book The Lock Artist.
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The final count for books read in 2011: 24 of 40. Fewer than 2010 by 5! Tsk.
I will try again for 2012 (3rd time lucky, right?) without choosing books ahead of time; my hope is to not end up with a months-long lull again. In 2010, the second half of the year saw very little reading and 2011 had almost a full quarter of …nothing.
My books-to-read shelf is, no surprise, still jam-packed. Perhaps...
December 2011
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…I’d much rather be someone who tries and fails then someone who makes fun of...
– Hellbox. Damage. Smelt. Recast.: On Writing (50,000 words in 30 days, this year)
Word.
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November 2011
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Notice how you know where you are in the book by the distribution of weight in...
– Bret Victor, A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
In the however-many articles I’ve read about reading, books, ebooks, and reading devices, I don’t think this point has ever been made, not this well, anyway. Love it.
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…the authentic creak of the Victorian stage boards and the gaslit melodrama.
– Robin Buss, introduction to The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
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October 2011
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…and like people who read as the day fails, they didn’t see that...
– Five Skies, Ron Carlson (p. 164)
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Key pointed his burned bread at where the old yellow road grader reclined in the...
– Five Skies, Ron Carlson (p. 54)
Maybe only a single color is named in that sentence (two if you’re fussy about sage) but the whole image is so lush and it wants to feel like a run-on but it isn’t but damn if it doesn’t match the Idaho landscape setting. So good.
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September 2011
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The [Pitilessly Resentful Sophomore] would turn her blinding light on the canon...
– -Sars, “Beautiful Fools”
Dying. laughing. Because: oh college.
Also good, “…this sort of dispositional sourness posing as feminism”. !
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Classic Ralph Lauren
fromme-toyou:
Pentax 35mm & Kodak Tri-X 400
This.
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