October 2011
5 posts
An ode to Neapolitan cake
O! Neapolitan cake!
With your many layers,
you make my lips quake.
I could eat you all day
but a thousand pounds I would weigh.
Delicious green, yellow and pink
of you all day I will think.
O! Neapolitan cake!
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May 2011
3 posts
Young adult literature is for young and young at... →
prettybooks:
Local children’s librarian shares timely suggestions.
DO YOU WANT to know a secret? People assume I read it only because I have to—but I truly enjoy literature for children and young adults.
True, it’s a key part of doing my job well, but when I get to choose a book for pleasure reading, I am more likely to choose a young adult title than an adult one. And why not? Young...
April 2011
5 posts
I think that J.K. Rowling should go back & write a...
georgiaskies-:
OMFG, I would jizz in my pants.
March 2011
10 posts
“I hated labels anyway. People didn’t fit in slots—prostitute, housewife,...”
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via thequotecollector)
February 2011
2 posts
Larry the Cable Guy is from Nebraska?
January 2011
1 post
Say what?! →
December 2010
2 posts
November 2010
11 posts
Why secondhand bookstores smell good
booklover:
teachingliteracy:
downlo:
Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally ...
October 2010
8 posts
If you asked me to describe my heart, I would say...
booklover:
likeghostsinsnow:Half/hearted.
“I wish I could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.”
– James Schuyler, The Morning of the Poem (via starsmending) (via moonaddicted) (via vintagerosegarden) (via booklover)
September 2010
13 posts
So, I haven’t had a phone for a while as mine decided to stop working. I know I should get a new one, but I’m growing to absolutely love not having one. At first it was sheer panic, I felt I was being cut off from the world. How was I to live without useless information and snippets of would-be conversations constantly coming at me from all directions?! But now, I really enjoy that...
