in honor of shark week, i am going to talk about this amazing book that you should read. it's called the lies of locke lamora and it's by scott lynch. let me answer the first three questions that are probably popping into your head!

Q: why is that title such a mouthful?
A: i really don't know! the second book in the series, red seas under red ( Read more... )

you guys, THIS BOOK. a book has not filled me with this much glee and rage since the lioness quartet. (or maybe tigana. the last line of that fills me with an awful lot of rage ( Read more... )

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.
-Looking for Alaska by John Green
(i've been thinking about college so much lately. this quote sums up how i felt a lot of the time, which sounds kind ( Read more... )

tangled webs has been pretty underwhelming (and i'm not done, so take your spoilers and stick 'em where the sun don't shine), but this exchange has made the whole book worth it:

"Why don't you have to drink milk in order to get nutcakes?"

Lucivar grinned. "I told her ale was Eyrien milk."

bwahahahahahaha, oh lucivar.

"I wonder how many people actually sit down to watch Dirty Harry anymore - it seems like one of those movies people don't bother seeing, because culturally, they already know what it is. They know the big line. [...] They know it's the first of its kind, that it created an entire genus of renegade cops who bucked the system." (Tomato NationI know ( Read more... )

[after the pages get a weeklong punishment for brawling ( Read more... )

re: Grosse Pointe Girl

I am sort of madly in love with Billy Crandall. Um, otherwise, the book was good but the ending sort of blew. I know I am sometimes all for realistic endings, but I wanted goddamn closure and kisses! Gosh!

Also, I love love love this passage:

"I need to tell you something," Billy says ( Read more... )

"Sorry, is my new [spoiler!] name Mushroom? Because I don't like being kept in the dark and fed bullshit, David. Just so you know."
-Joanne, Heat Stroke, pg. 50

(i am dying to use this line on someone, ahahaha.)

"You know, you've got one hell of a martyr thing going, maybe you ought to drop by and try it out on the pope. Nothing. Bullshit. You're ( Read more... )

Elena Delphiki is one of my favorite fictional people ever, and possibly my favorite fictional mum ever, simply for the following passage:
"If you want him," said Julian. "His life has been hard. But he's a stranger here. He doesn't speak Greek. He's been told that he's just coming for a visit. That legally he is not our child, but rather a ward of ( Read more... )

karl (my boss): you gonna be okay tonight?
lisa: ...yes?
karl: cos, you know, kerry's not here.
lisa: ...
karl: and i know you have trouble functioning without him.
lisa: i hate you.
heh. stupid boss. apparently, he's been holding that in since someone wrote "kerry ♥'s lisa" on the schedule 3 weeks ago ( Read more... )