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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

—Arthur Schopenhauer (via wwnorton)

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vintageanchor: “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people’s lives, never your own.” —Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot Sense of an Ending was one of my favorite recent books.

vintageanchor:

“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people’s lives, never your own.”

—Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot

Sense of an Ending was one of my favorite recent books.

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coverspy: The Finkler Question, Howard Jacobson (F, 20s, Got a new job, was looking at her contract. 99,000/yr., F train) http://bit.ly/yWn917 Great book.

coverspy:

The Finkler Question, Howard Jacobson (F, 20s, Got a new job, was looking at her contract. 99,000/yr., F train) http://bit.ly/yWn917

Great book.

coverspy: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon (M, 40s, dark hair, graying beard, 501s, red and green scarf, C train) http://bit.ly/z6Vomr Was just thinking about this book. One of my favorites actually. Wonder if the Cohen Bros movie will ever happen.

coverspy:

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon (M, 40s, dark hair, graying beard, 501s, red and green scarf, C train) http://bit.ly/z6Vomr

Was just thinking about this book. One of my favorites actually. Wonder if the Cohen Bros movie will ever happen.

theatlantic: newsweek: nparts: This is what it looks like when two action stars just happen to be booked for shoulder surgery on the same day at the same hospital: kind of gross. In case you can’t tell THAT IS A SYRINGE STICKING OUT OF SLY’S NECK. Pity the poor surgical resident who had to figure out what these two were saying. 

theatlantic:

newsweek:

nparts:

This is what it looks like when two action stars just happen to be booked for shoulder surgery on the same day at the same hospital: kind of gross.

In case you can’t tell THAT IS A SYRINGE STICKING OUT OF SLY’S NECK.

Pity the poor surgical resident who had to figure out what these two were saying. 

themissourireview:

Charles Dickens was a naughty kid, and he shouldn’t have done that to his brother. 

housingworksbookstore: Novelist Jennifer Egan is a fan who came back to the books and unexpectedly found that Dickens felt modern. “The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great TV series, like The Wire or The Sopranos,” says Egan. “There’s one central plot line, but then from that spin off all kinds of subplots. And so he would go off in all sorts of directions and create these amazing secondary characters who would go in and out of focus. But then there was also this sort of central spinal column of a plot that he would return to.” (via Dickens At 200: A Birthday You Can’t ‘Bah Humbug’ : NPR)

housingworksbookstore:

Novelist Jennifer Egan is a fan who came back to the books and unexpectedly found that Dickens felt modern. “The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great TV series, like The Wire or The Sopranos,” says Egan. “There’s one central plot line, but then from that spin off all kinds of subplots. And so he would go off in all sorts of directions and create these amazing secondary characters who would go in and out of focus. But then there was also this sort of central spinal column of a plot that he would return to.” (via Dickens At 200: A Birthday You Can’t ‘Bah Humbug’ : NPR)