Inspired by Worthington Libraries: Blind Date with a Book!
We started with ~40 books. Two hours later, all but four had found homes with library patrons (sorry, Flush, Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Persepolis, and The ThingsThey Carried, they don’t know what they’re missing).
(via wordpainting)
Looking for a good book on feminism? How about 70 of them? We’ve compiled a list of some of the most influential, controversial and must-read feminist titles from the past 200+ years. That’s a lot of books! You should probably get started.Someone has put a lot of worthwhile time into compiling this list.
Wow. I usually see these lists just falling back on the typical white feminist literature, so it’s nice to see that they included other types, too, including women of color and queer/trans books. Appreciated.
TBR
“For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying - what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.”
“And she didn’t know their names, but friends she knew they were, friends without names, songs without words, always the best. But there were so many doors, such unexpected places, she could not find her way.”
“There! the old lady had put out her light! the whole house was dark now with this going on, she repeated, and the words came to her, Fear no more the heat of the sun. She must go back to them. But what an extraordinary night! She felt somehow very like him - the young man who had killed himself. She felt glad that he had done it; thrown it away while they went on living. The clock was striking. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.”
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“People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
(Source: frenchtwist, via noldarling)
“The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you already know.”
God doesn’t want us to confess, he wants us to challenge him, but for a while I went into churches because they were built from the heart. Improbably hearts that I had never understood before. Hearts so full of longing that these old stones cry out with their extasy. These are warm churches, built in the sun.
We are a philosophical people, conservant with the nature of greed and desire, holding hands with the Devil and God. We would not wish to let go of either. this living bridge is tempting to all and you may lose your soul or find it here.
