A Good Bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
I watch a book recommendations community on here and someone recently posted asking for recs for books that have changed your life or had a major emotional impact on you.
I started to reply, just thinking of those books where you get to the end, to the final word of the final page and you just think ... whoah. Take a breath and absorb the whole thing, let it sink into your skin like sunlight.
I always feel kind of sad to finish books like that.
Anyway I started to reply, just thinking back and browsing through my bookshelves and then I realised... it's a bloody long list. But I really kind of wanted to just write them down, so I'm making a post recording (and recommending!) some of the books that have had a profound effect on me in whatever way. I'll cut it, so feel free to skip ~_^
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Only Forward - Michael Marshall Smith
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
Exquisite Corpse - Poppy Z Brite
Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
Angels In America - Tony Kushner (it's a play, but it still counts!)
IT - Stephen King
Queen of the Damned - Ann Rice
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
The Master and Marguerita - Mikhail Bulgakov
The Fantastic Mr Fox - Roald Dahl
... ok and the Harry Potter series. What? ¬_¬
And you guys? Are there any books you'll pull from the back of a dusty shelf in years to come that'll make you smile just by holding them in your hands?
In other news! Something funny happened in work today. One of the guys in my team had a dude on the phone complaining that he never saw any people of Nigerian descent in T-mobile's adverts and he was really quite offended by this... Does saying LAWL make me racist? Hm. Andy obviously declined to get into a discussion about political correctness and racial equality in british advertising and told the guy he'd forward his comments on to whoever gives a fuck. He also didn't point out that he hadn't seen a whole lot of british folk in nigerian tv adverts lately...
Apart from anything else, I don't get how he knows... I mean there are loadsa people in the adverts, some of them are definitely black, so how does he know they're not Nigerian? *shrugs* Anyway it was a moment of utter ridiculousness that gave us all a bit of a giggle.
Also, this is why I love my parents (apart from them feeding me and letting me live in their house):
Dad: [sarcastic] Let's watch America's Next Top Model.
Mum: Hm. Let's not.
Me: LAWL!
... ok so I didn't actually say 'lawl' to my parents, but you get it *grins*
New episode of Criminal Minds tonight! Can't wait to download it illegally catch it as soon as it becomes available in my geographic region! *ahem*
And look! Cute man with a puppy! What more could you want? ...... Ok yeah, I still wouldn't say no to chocolate. Or cake.
+_+
I started to reply, just thinking of those books where you get to the end, to the final word of the final page and you just think ... whoah. Take a breath and absorb the whole thing, let it sink into your skin like sunlight.
I always feel kind of sad to finish books like that.
Anyway I started to reply, just thinking back and browsing through my bookshelves and then I realised... it's a bloody long list. But I really kind of wanted to just write them down, so I'm making a post recording (and recommending!) some of the books that have had a profound effect on me in whatever way. I'll cut it, so feel free to skip ~_^
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Only Forward - Michael Marshall Smith
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
Exquisite Corpse - Poppy Z Brite
Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
Angels In America - Tony Kushner (it's a play, but it still counts!)
IT - Stephen King
Queen of the Damned - Ann Rice
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
The Master and Marguerita - Mikhail Bulgakov
The Fantastic Mr Fox - Roald Dahl
... ok and the Harry Potter series. What? ¬_¬
And you guys? Are there any books you'll pull from the back of a dusty shelf in years to come that'll make you smile just by holding them in your hands?
In other news! Something funny happened in work today. One of the guys in my team had a dude on the phone complaining that he never saw any people of Nigerian descent in T-mobile's adverts and he was really quite offended by this... Does saying LAWL make me racist? Hm. Andy obviously declined to get into a discussion about political correctness and racial equality in british advertising and told the guy he'd forward his comments on to whoever gives a fuck. He also didn't point out that he hadn't seen a whole lot of british folk in nigerian tv adverts lately...
Apart from anything else, I don't get how he knows... I mean there are loadsa people in the adverts, some of them are definitely black, so how does he know they're not Nigerian? *shrugs* Anyway it was a moment of utter ridiculousness that gave us all a bit of a giggle.
Also, this is why I love my parents (apart from them feeding me and letting me live in their house):
Dad: [sarcastic] Let's watch America's Next Top Model.
Mum: Hm. Let's not.
Me: LAWL!
... ok so I didn't actually say 'lawl' to my parents, but you get it *grins*
New episode of Criminal Minds tonight! Can't wait to download it illegally catch it as soon as it becomes available in my geographic region! *ahem*
And look! Cute man with a puppy! What more could you want? ...... Ok yeah, I still wouldn't say no to chocolate. Or cake.
+_+