Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting? I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I’m drowning in ellipses.

-Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion [pg 51]

I kind of can't get over how amazing and gorgeous this book is. I'm not quite done yet, but I'm in awe.

I just got an email from Mizzou.

I have been admitted as a graduate student at the University of Missouri-Columbia for the Fall 2011 term.

This whole going-to-grad-school thing is still kinda scary, but now that I'm in there's one less thing I have to worry about. Now I just have to worry about screwing it up and that I've completely forgotten ( Read more... )

"I think it’s important to like stuff. I think we spend a lot of time thinking about the stuff we don’t like, man. Whether it’s, y’know, the world ending or inequality or ‘Sex and the City,’ we often just accept the things that we like and complain a lot about the things that we don’t like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell upon the really ( Read more... )

PICSPAM TIME!

Okay, if you follow my Tumblr you've already seen this. But I had way too much fun doing it, so I'm posting it here, too. What did I do, you ask? I paired up quotes from Austin Grossman's Soon I Will Be Invincible with caps from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog ( Read more... )

That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you onto another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.

-The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary ( Read more... )

When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.

-Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman (page 310)
I really liked this book when I read ( Read more... )

I love my Oddie.

"Loss is the hardest thing," I said. "But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore ( Read more... )

Robbins took the cookie and stared at it glumly.

"Oh, good God," Szilard said. "Do I have to order you to eat the damn thing?"

"It might help," Robbins said.

"Fine," Szilard said. "Colonel, I'm giving you a direct order. Eat the fucking cookie."

-The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi (page 204)
Not important in the grand scheme of things but it made ( Read more... )

Love needs room to grow, like a rose. Or a tumor.

-Fool by Christopher Moore (page 274)

Finishing a new Christopher Moore book makes me sad, simply because I know it will be so long before I get another. That being said, I absolutely loved Fool.

ETA: If you're done with Fool, too, I recommend watching Chris discussing the book with some readers. ( Read more... )

"Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard trying to avoid the archer's bolt. The others work their strategies and wait for the old man to fall. He has no power, yet all power moves in his orbit and to his mad whim. Do you know that there's no fool piece on the chessboard ( Read more... )