December 2011
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Best of 2011
It’s that time of year again, where everyone is releasing their best of 2011 lists. I don’t think I read 10 books that were released in 2011, so I’m going to just do the “Best Books I Read in 2011” list. So here we go…
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
One Day by David Nicholls
The Marriage Plot by Jeffery Eugenides
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
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smoke-curls-up replied to your post: Mission accomplished, I just finished 1Q84 before the start of 2012.
Woohoo! HOW WAS IT?
It’s a book that I need sometime to mule over before I release the final review. But some words that automatically pop into my mind: trippy, long, enlightening, romantic, surreal, mysterious, and profound.
Here’s a link to a post I made about a week ago about...
Mission accomplished, I just finished 1Q84 before...
I believe it's fate that reunited me with this...
I need more storage space for my books.
Disappointed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
scarfofswag:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle reflects
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood...”
– Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (via bookoasis)
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via solipsism2)
A History of the World in 6 Glasses Review
A History of the World in 6 Glasses is a nonfiction book which discusses six different beverages that radically changed the world and came to define certain eras in our history. The book is split into six sections: beer, wine, liquor, coffee, tea, and Coca Cola. I found the book to be interesting and the pacing was good. I’d never stopped and thought about how...
The German word "kummerspeck" means "excess weight...
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muffystopheles:
haha yessss
bacon understands your grief.
GRIEF BACON
GRIEF
BACON
the best kind of bacon
it doesn’t judge you
it just listens
from inside your stomach
"The Enduring Popularity of Sherlock Holmes" →
sswslitinmotion:
Terrific item over at NPR’s “All Things Considered,” on the timelessness of Sherlock Holmes.
This is very timely, in light of the movie sequel (yeah, I’m hoping to see it, because I’m a sucker for a return of Holmes, and anyway, why not?), the upcoming return of Sherlock the tv series (well, an upcoming return in America, anyway; I believe the 2nd series has already been aired...
