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)
I think I have a couple more Stephen King books floating around somewhere. Not to mention double copies of at least three (Dolores Claiborne, Four Past Midnight, and The Drawing of the Three).
This is… not even a significant portion of the books I own. It’s just a significant portion of the books that are currently in my room which I have already read.
romanicusroranicus:tinyarms:leighway:thepatronsaintoflostcauses:
This is supposed to be an excerpt from Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951).
I saw this post earlier on my dashboard, more than seven times, but because I never even saw this was supposed to be an excerpt from Catcher in the Rye, I never read it nor reblogged it.
Untill I saw someone posting comments that Katy Perry should be sued for ‘doing this’. And than I started reading the post, and because I have read Catcher in the Rye seven times I knew this is not a excerpt from Catcher in the Rye at all. This a hoax.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with popular songs; the first lines of a song called Firework by Katy Perry are “Do you ever feel like a plastic bag? Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin like a house of cards; one blow from caving in?”
Anyhow, I wonder why people say that Katy Perry should be sued, because first of all: Who is going to sue her? E.E. Cummings is dead. Second of all, this is fake. Third of all, if you have read Catcher in the Rye you should have known this is fake and you wouldn’t have said/reblogged that Katy Perry should be sued at all.
Which brings me to the following point: have you even read Catcher in the Rye? Or are you just reblogging the sue-ing crap because you want to appear literate? Or read at all? Like you love E.E. Cummings with all your heart and soul? Because you want to appear you have read it to be cool? Because you want your followers to think highly of you? Or are you just so incredibly stupid that you not only haven’t read the book, but also don’t check if accusations like that are even true? What the freaking fuck.
If you had read the book you would’ve know this is not in it. Everyone who reblogs it with only the sue-ing comment and without a you’re-complety-insane comment, is trying to appear cool and/or literate. Because you haven’t read the book. And you probably never will.
e.e. cummings omg
OH MY FUCKING GOD
“You haven’t read the book. And you probably never will.“ I like how this person is acting like Catcher in the Rye is something that only the most literary literarians have ever picked up, and not something that is assigned reading in most schools and angsty teenagers’ lives.
Also, Chandler, I tip my nonexistent hat to your genius, sir.
(via hopelessfangirl)
I just counted and out of the 28 novels I’ve read so far this year, only six of them have a female lead character. So I’d like recommendations, if you’ve got ‘em. It’s also okay if the main character is male but there’s a female character with a large role. I’d prefer adult books but YA is fine too.
(Here’s my goodreads if you want to know what kind of books I like, but the answer is “pretty much everything”)
alengthoftime: Hi! I heard that you had read The Angel's Cut and I was wondering what you think about it. I haven't read it yet, but I have read TVL. I'm sorry if I am intruding but sparrowsarahnade referred me to you :)
I absolutely loved The Angel’s Cut! It took a little bit of effort to get into at first because, you know, it’s Xas quite a bit of time after his relationship with Sobran, and it does include him getting involved with other people, so that’s a little bit hard to take at first. But it’s really beautifully written like TVL and Xas is so, so wonderful in it (I’ve got a couple of excerpts posted under my Vintner’s Luck tag I think).
And as far as his other relationships go, it’s kind of like Sobran with Aurora: Everyone Xas encounters are really lovely people like her, but Sobran is always his One True Love like he was to Sobran.
But yes, I’d definitely recommend it! It has some awesome new characters (I love love love love Flora) and a lot more Lucifer, and it’s Xas in 1930s Hollywood flying planes, what could be better?
Also the ending is not as heartbreaking as the ending of TVL, if that helps.
