The votes are in! The novel we will be reading and discussing for the first-ever One Book, One Tumblr is…
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.
It won by a landslide, garnering almost half of the total votes. Here are the next steps:
- Pick up a copy of the novel. It should be available at your local bookstore or online (Powell’s has new copies for 30 percent off). And for those with an aversion to paper, it’s also available as an e-book.
- Read, read, read — even if you’ve already read it.
- Post your ruminations, questions, and critiques, and tag them with #onebookonetumblr.
- Heart, reblog, and follow the discussion here.
Before the end of today, I will message five readers, at random, who reblogged the previous post so they can get a free copy of the novel.
And if I’m not forgetting anything else, let the reading begin.
This is one of my favourite books and I would highly recommend it to anyone who hasn’t read it before. Also I think #onebookonetumblr is a great idea.
(via thirddeadlysin)
100 Books I Love — Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer
Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn’t motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn’t enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?
(via xnoel)
100 Books I Love — Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
My favorite book is A Brief History of Time, even though I haven’t actually finished it, because the math is incredibly hard and Mom isn’t good at helping me. One of my favorite parts is the beginning of the first chapter, where Stephen Hawking tells about a famous scientist who was giving a lecture about how the earth orbits the sun, and the sun orbits the solar system, and whatever. Then a woman in the back of the room raised her hand and said, ‘What you have just told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate on the back of a giant tortoise.’ So the scientist asked her what the tortoise was standing on. And she said, ‘But it’s turtles all the way down!’ I love that story, because it shows how ignorant people can be. And also because I love tortoises.
If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller’s felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
