September 2009
55 posts
Used Books By Sarah Jane Sloat
I like them dog-eared and lawnsoft, and savor the character of winestain and thumbsmudge,
the tear-warp between pages, scrawl lolling down margins,
x’s, question and check marks scratched out as anchors.
They kindle affinity with readers who’ve leafed through before, house
a kinship of signatures, conjuring towns and streets in states I’ll never visit.
They...
“No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills;...”
– Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (via psychotherapy)
And now, a word from Luke Siemens
stanielsbookclub:
Reblogged from Luke Siemens’s brain:
Jealous that you had a meeting over a book I was reading, but DeeAnn and I had a lengthy facebook message conversation about it. Basically I hear what your saying, but I think you guys are wrong on some points. What I think you’re Right on: I think there is something to be said about the turn the last third of the book takes. It’s a...
drink the kool-aid →
A reference to the 1978 cult mass-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. Jim Jones, the leader of the group, convinced his followers to move to Jonestown. Late in the year he then ordered his flock to commit suicide by drinking grape-flavored Kool-Aid laced with potassium cyanide. In what is now commonly called “the Jonestown Massacre”, 913 of the 1100 Jonestown residents drank the Kool-Aid and...
Secret Vancouver Book Club Meeting : Sept. 21st,...
stanielsbookclub:
Place: Brix Restaurant Time: 5 pm Book: Generation A by Douglas Coupland Hey, what’s good everybody? Staniel here, live from the passenger seat of a Dodge Caravan (don’t laugh) and driving back to Banff en route to Calgary and soon, back home. As you may or may not have known, I’ve been chillin in Van city for the past two weeks for a wedding/family reunion. In addition, a...
“Whether or not you write well, write bravely.”
– Bill Stout
A Divine Falling of Leaves, Pablo Neruda
Moon: royal crown of an enormous head, dropping leaves into yellow shadows as you go. Red crown of a Jesus who broods tragically, softly over emeralds!
Moon: sweetly lost heart in heaven, why do you row toward the west in that cup filled with blue wine, whose hull is injured and hurt and sad?
Moon: it is no use flying away, so you go up in a flame of scattered opals: maybe you are in my...
“Verbal and nonverbal manifestations of integrating may take many forms:
9....”
– —Interpersonal Communications and Human Interactions Mark L. Knapp & Anita L. Vangelisti
(Another stellar quote from my textbook)
We describe our relationships in many ways. Sometimes we rely on conventional intimacy terms like stranger, acquaintance, buddy, close friend, lover; sometimes role designations such as neighbor, boss, hitchhiker, teacher, or pickup are used.
-Interpersonal Communication and Human Relationships Mark L. Knapp & Anita L. Vangelisti
(Studying my Comm 307 class, and came across this....
Dan Brown's 20 Worst Sentences →
4, 3, and 2. The Da Vinci Code, opening sentence: Renowned curator Jacques Saunière staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum’s Grand Gallery.
Angels and Demons, opening sentence: Physicist Leonardo Vetra smelled burning flesh, and he knew it was his own.
Deception Point, opening sentences: Death, in this forsaken place, could come in countless forms. Geologist Charles Brophy had...
Vanity Flare, Wendy Videlock
Don’t get me wrong: I know that knowledge is power, that mystery’s water, that hunger makes a gargantuan lover, and yes, I’ve drunk of the river Lethe, from the breath of the Celts, from the echo of the bugling elk,
and yet,
alas, here I be, small and twee, all liquored up on song and love, hard as rails and light as air, expecting the heavens to throw down a flare, ...
“A lot of verbage gets thrown around about the Bible (its perfection, its...”
– Claims about the Bible Work Best if You Don’t Actually Read It (via azspot)
“Picture an entire city, a modern, wealthy place, in the richest country in the...”
– Cory Doctorow | Philadelphia Free Library System is shutting down | Boing Boing (via ericmortensen)
“If you were to commit suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge, would you...”
– Generation A Douglas Coupland
As many as 300 women have been raped in an... →
The eight men – all Mennonite, seven from Manitoba (a town in Bolivia) and one from a nearby community – have been charged with child abuse and rape. Their alleged victims range from five-year-old girls to women as old as 65.
The Mennonites are a Protestant group that fled religious persecution in 19th-century Europe to create isolated communities in America and elsewhere. Estimates suggest there...
I am baking a cake, like a good wife whose husband is at work.
“Vancouver isn’t known for its art scene, but it does have one terrific gallery...”
– 36 Hours in Vancouver - NYTimes.com
Etc. (via cameronr)
So my book club choose their next selection entitled, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow. This is book is really interesting as it was released under a Creative Commons license. This means that the book is available to be copied, distributed, display, and perform. I chose to download the book (do it here) and (horrors!!) I READ THE WHOLE BOOK ON MY LAPTOP SCREEN!! My eyes!!...
