I really like reading and there is very little I am unwilling to try. This blog is where I will review the books I've read and keep you updated on how many I've read during the course of the year.
I always wanted to do a blog about my favorite books, but I've never been brave enough. It seemed as if I was claiming to some hold sort of superior taste in books; it seemed a bit snobbish. I'm not trying to be a book snob here- trust me, I've the farthest thing! I just want to share what I'm reading with the world, and maybe find some fellow bloggers who share my taste in literature.
I'll be covering graphic novels and children's books, but probably also nonfiction and theology. Basically, I'll read anything. To introduce my taste in books, here are some of my favorites:
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
Downright Dencey, Caroline Dale Snedeker
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
Harry Potter, JK Rowling
Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
Orthodoxy, GK Chesterton
Scott Pilgrim, Bryan Lee O'Malley
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
There are about two dozen more that I think of as favorites, but this will hopefully just get you acquainted with my taste. Last year I read 150 books and it really shaped my identity as a reader. I'm not going to share that list here (it is a little too massive) but a bunch of those titles will probably crop up in future posts.
I hope someone reads my posts here, I hope someone tries some of the books I recommend, but most of all, I hope anyone who is reading this blog feels free to comment and leave me some suggestions of their own.
~Sadie
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I am trying to read every book ever. You've got to start somewhere, right?
About Me
- Sadie
- Sadie. ENTJ. Slytherin. Type 1: Reformer. New Yorker since birth. German and Puerto Rican. Rude and not ginger. Loves science fiction, gothic romance, and wizardry. Foodie. Dis Freak. Orthodoxy or death. Sure. Fine. Whatever.
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Some Quotes
They say, Here's the truth, and I say, Is that all there is? And they say, Kind of. Pretty much. As far as we know.
-Neil Gaiman
But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know that they all were?
-Rowling
So, she can be the innocent girl and the prostitute and the author, eh? Well, imagine a full deck of cards, each card painted with symbols of women- the waif, the harlot, the mother, the warrior, the queen- until the last card, on which we see Medea, a knife in her raised, implacable hand. Yes, I am there and any woman can be, even though we don't stand up on stages and make a fuss about it. And we can skip lightly back through the deck, carelessly touching each card as we do, before returning to the good mother, or the lover... Every women knows all about everything on these cards, even if her knowledge is wordless and half-conscious. It is wordless knowledge because it is too big for words. Sometimes, it is too big for us.
-Mary Gaitskill
When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.
-GK Chesterton
To say that metaphysics is a culture phrase or misapprehension that can be put aside is also a metaphysical statement. The notion of accident does nothing to dispel mystery, nothing to diminish scale. I consider the common account of the sense of emptiness in the modern world to be a faulty diagnosis.
-Marilynne Robinson
Arithmetic be damned. "I'll wait for you" was elemental. It was the reason he had survived. It was the ordinary way of saying she would refuse all other men. Only you. Come back.
-Ian McEwan
-Neil Gaiman
But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know that they all were?
-Rowling
So, she can be the innocent girl and the prostitute and the author, eh? Well, imagine a full deck of cards, each card painted with symbols of women- the waif, the harlot, the mother, the warrior, the queen- until the last card, on which we see Medea, a knife in her raised, implacable hand. Yes, I am there and any woman can be, even though we don't stand up on stages and make a fuss about it. And we can skip lightly back through the deck, carelessly touching each card as we do, before returning to the good mother, or the lover... Every women knows all about everything on these cards, even if her knowledge is wordless and half-conscious. It is wordless knowledge because it is too big for words. Sometimes, it is too big for us.
-Mary Gaitskill
When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.
-GK Chesterton
To say that metaphysics is a culture phrase or misapprehension that can be put aside is also a metaphysical statement. The notion of accident does nothing to dispel mystery, nothing to diminish scale. I consider the common account of the sense of emptiness in the modern world to be a faulty diagnosis.
-Marilynne Robinson
Arithmetic be damned. "I'll wait for you" was elemental. It was the reason he had survived. It was the ordinary way of saying she would refuse all other men. Only you. Come back.
-Ian McEwan
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