June 2012
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“You can shop online and find whatever you’re looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren’t looking for.” - Paul Krugman”
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“Good stories write themselves—bad ones have to be written…”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald in a letter to Harold Ober (via alex-ivy)
The Top 10 Tear-jerkers of all Time
1. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
2. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
3. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
4. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
5. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
8. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
9. Charlotte’s Web by E B White
10. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
What titles would you add?
“You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.”
—Carlos Fuentes (1928 - 2012)
Hemingway reviews a $2 tooth extraction by a student dentist (Toronto Star, March 6, 1920)
“If you wish to secure free board, free room, and free medical attention there is one infallible way of obtaining it. Walk up to the biggest policeman you can find and hit him in the face.”
