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I'm Sam, 31, I live close to DC. I like arty stuff, pop culture, good food. I wish I had more time to read. I wish I traveled more. I need to drink more wine. I don't get to listen to enough music. I'm trying to catch up.

Some amateurish pictures I've taken myself are here .

Collecting interesting articles here .

I rarely get personal.

But I like email (probably a generational thing): sam88mph at gmail

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14 November 09
Clio’s badness smile is something else — the edges of her normal smile turn sharp like little blades and her eyes go all shiny and electric. I think, for the half-second it lasts, that mean naughty sexy cruel little smile might be the single and only perfect thing that’s ever existed. A bright warm flash amongst a billion old scratchy stars.
— Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Texts
Tags: books
6 November 09
(via goldenfiddle)

Reblogged: goldenfiddle

Tags: books
2 November 09
Once you get past a certain threshold, everyone’s problems are the same: fortifying your island and hiding the heat signature from your fusion reactor.

Austin Grossman, Soon I Will Be Invincible

(I enjoyed this book, but thought Dr Horrible covered a lot of the same ground in a much more effective way)

Tags: books me
17 October 09
I realized suddenly that romantics are dickheads. There’s nothing wonderful or interesting about unrequited love. I think it’s shitty, just plain shitty. To love someone who doesn’t return your affections might be exciting in books, but in life it’s unbearingly boring. I’ll tell you what’s exciting: sweaty, passionate nights. But sitting on the veranda outside the home of a sleeping woman who isn’t dreaming about you is slow moving and just plain sad.
— Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole
Tags: books epiphany me
14 October 09
karenh:

before Wes Anderson: Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl, with illustrations by Donal Chaffin c.1970 Knopf (via Vintage Kids’ Books My Kid Loves)

karenh:

before Wes Anderson:
Fantastic Mr. Fox
by Roald Dahl, with
illustrations by Donal Chaffin c.1970 Knopf
(via Vintage Kids’ Books My Kid Loves)

Reblogged: karenh

Tags: books
1 October 09
lainemarie:


The Runaway Bunny of course.



First book I ever read!

lainemarie:

The Runaway Bunny of course.

First book I ever read!

Reblogged: lainemarie

Tags: books
26 September 09
It was only when she said things like that and I had to deal with them that I realized how much I depended on having made her happy. And how much all of that shook when she whacked at it.
— Jim Shepard, Like You’d Understand, Anyway
Tags: books
7 September 09
(via grindlebone)

Greatest book ever.

(via grindlebone)

Greatest book ever.

Reblogged: grindlebone

Tags: books
14 August 09
lifetheuniverseandeverything:




persicapit:

kyoober:

It is the end of all the good things in the world.
brought to you by LUE

BREAKING NEWS: Literature is dead.

Good God. This is depressing.




Maybe English 261 is a course on how *not* to write.  Book 1 of 4 would of course be the DaVinci Code.

lifetheuniverseandeverything:

persicapit:

kyoober:

It is the end of all the good things in the world.

brought to you by LUE

BREAKING NEWS: Literature is dead.

Good God. This is depressing.

Maybe English 261 is a course on how *not* to write.  Book 1 of 4 would of course be the DaVinci Code.

Reblogged: lifetheuniverseandeverything

Tags: books
Posted: 10:04 AM

Reblogged: lifetheuniverseandeverything

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5 August 09
31 July 09
Tags: books pop
15 July 09
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.



From here.



Someone needs to follow this up with “Wuthering Heights and the Wolfman”.

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.

From here.

Someone needs to follow this up with “Wuthering Heights and the Wolfman”.

Tags: books pop
Posted: 8:12 AM

Books that are considered "classic" that I hate.

constantwanderlust:

alohanico:

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

Whine Whine Whine. This is why I only got 100 pages in.

(via ashlynisawesome)

Yes. I have tried so hard, too many times to count, to get into this book, and to no avail. I can’t do it. I’ll never make it more than 100-odd pages in either.

Ditto. I always feel bad about it, too. I’ll have to stick to Charlotte instead.

If you stick with it Wuthering Heights changes course halfway through, and becomes a totally different story. It’s like the From Dusk Till Dawn of Bronte novels.

Reblogged: constantwanderlust

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8 July 09
From here

From here

Tags: books
Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh