"Maybe this is where we go wrong, feminists who fall in love: We have bought into the idea that being hurt is a weakness. We believe in the (after all, patriarchal) idea that showing emotion is bad because it’s feminine, and that visible emotion is even worse when it’s visible emotion over a man. We forget that the willingness to open up to others ( Read more... )

I just started reading The Time Traveler's Wife and I never want to put it down. Why has it taken me so long to pick it up?

YA books about The Gay, to be precise. I haven't read his books; perhaps I should.

http://www.insideadog.com.au/downloads/reading_matters_-_david_levithan.html

1. If you show me love, I will give you freely of mine. But you must show me yours first ( Read more... )

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 161.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

Finally, I'm in a place where I actually have a book for this meme ( Read more... )

Here are the current top 50 books from www.whatshouldireadnext.com. Bold the books you have read. Italicise the books you might read. Cross out the books you probably won't read. Pass it on:

The Da Vinci Code
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger ( Read more... )

When I got to work today I found a gift in my mailbox! Hurrah! Thanks, delcatty! I actually already own Gut Symmetries, but it's still so lovely to get books - especially the kind of books I like ( Read more... )