I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it (some I‘ve had so long I don‘t even remember why!). Feel free to join in!
#ABookADay2024
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Still Life with Woodpecker (Reissue) | 
I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it (some I‘ve had so long I don‘t even remember why!). Feel free to join in!
#ABookADay2024
1. Currently reading Dark Matter & Rilla of Ingleside
2. Pumpkin pie!
3. I don‘t recall if it the tagged book really had an autumn feel but remember a quote from it: “It was autumn, the springtime of death.”
Thanks for the tag @DarkMina! #WeekendReads
“There is lovemaking that is bad for a person, just as there is eating that is bad. . . . Even potentially nourishing foods can be improperly prepared. There are wrong combinations and improper preparations in sex as well. . . . that won't work if the ingredients are poorly matched: oysters are delectable, so are strawberries, but mashed together ... (?!)” #strawberry #QuotsyJul21
“The romance of new love, the romance of solitude, the romance of objecthood, the romance of ancient pyramids and distant stars are means of making contact with the mystery. When it comes to perpetuating it, however, I got no advice. But I can and will remind you of two of the most important facts I know:
1. Everything is part of it.
2. It's never too late to have a happy #childhood.” #QuotsySept20
“This is not the first time that intimidation by typewriter has caused me to consider the #pen.” #QuotsyJun20
“In the world according to the positivist, the inspiring thing about scrambled eggs is that any way you turn them they're sunny side up. In the world according to the existentialist, the hopeless thing about scrambled eggs is that any way you turn them they're scrambled.” #egg #QuotsyApr20
#tbr #stayhome24in48 between my real life stack and #overdrive running out of books is the only thing I‘m not worried about!
“Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.” #Equality #QuotsyAug19
“I'll bet I'm as old as you are."
"I'm older than Sanskrit."
"Well, I was waitress at the Last Supper."
"I'm so old I remember when McDonald's had only sold a hundred burgers."
"You win.”
#Burger #QuotsyAug19
“...In terms of hazardous vectors released, the transformation of ideas into dogma rivals the transformation of hydrogen into helium, uranium into lead, or innocence into corruption. And it is nearly as relentless.”
“There's always the same amount of good #luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil.” #QuotsyMar19
“I'm an outlaw, not a hero. I never intended to rescue you. We're our own dragons as well as heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.” #Vigilante #QuotsySept18 #QuotsyCatchup
“It was autumn, the springtime of death.” #Autumn #QuotsySept18 🍂
Took a sneaky pic of the hubs reading. Reading in bed together makes my heart happy ❤️
Probably one of my favourite opening lines ever: “If this #typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.”
"This baby speaks electric Shakespeare at the slightest provocation and will rap out a page and a half if you just look at it hard."
"There is, however, a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like part of the act.”
#QuotsyJuly18
"Tunnel vision is a disease in which perception is restricted by ignorance and distorted by vested interest...When a good idea is run through the filters and compressors of ordinary tunnel vision, it not only comes out reduced in scale and value but in its new dogmatic configuration produces effects the opposite of those for which it originally was intended." #Vision #QuotsyJune18
Thanks to the very active #GreatAmericanRead FB group, I was reminded how much I loved this book. So much, I had to buy a new copy. Uh oh spaghetti oh! Love, love love this one!!!
1. Tagged book. The Camel smoker that still lives in me will always love this cover. (I no longer smoke 😊)
2. Frida Kahlo was a total badass and I love how strong she was in every way.
3. Skull with Burning Cigarette by Van Gogh
4. MoMA I am a modern art girl that appreciates the classics as well.
Thanks to everyone that played today! As an art history major it was super fun for me to know which artists and pieces you all love. ❤️❤️❤️
pickI haven‘t been reading a great deal recently - it goes like that sometimes - but I did finish this strange and riotous book about a modern day princess and her love affair with an outlaw. It wasn‘t like anything else I‘ve read.
My brother doesn‘t read. So of course when he told me that he‘d be interested in the tagged book I bought it right away 😅 He did start reading it but he has weird reading habits and rereads the pages so many times, I think now, half a year later he is still only like five pages in😅 I doubt he will ever finish it, but it was worth the try😂😂 #siblings #readingresolutions @Jess7
It was a toss up between this exchange of messages between lovers and the amusing "Who knows how to make love stay?" list (which I still might post anyway) ? #love #QuotsyDec17
#FirstSentence Thought I‘d throw Tom Robbins in there.Don‘t ask me to explain why,I love Tom Robbins , he wrote “Still life with Woodpecker “ in 1980 .I still don‘t know how to describe his work .
Tom Robbins is always good for #StrangeTitles. These are all due for a #reread, and I'm thinking they'll be perfect for curing the inevitable #Bookhangover when I finish the Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant!#AwesomeAutumnBooks
Pups and book on this lazy Sunday morning. Hope to finish this today!
I no longer know what love is. A week ago I had a lot of ideas. What love is and how to make it stay. Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.
I'm an outlaw, not a hero. I never intended to rescue you. We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
I have some time before work today, so I'm taking myself to Central Park for some reading. It is a beautiful spring day! (Finally.) #nofilter
panI pushed through to the end and ... I still don't get it. It was different kind of read for me. It reminds me of At-swim-two-birds by Flann O'Brien. #notsomuch
pickTom taught me the ways of the moon and how to approach the whims of the world.
Excited to share some of my favorite books tomorrow at #LitsyRiotLive! It's been so amazing spending time with like-minded book lovers, especially in the wake of all that is happening throughout the country. #BookRiotLive couldn't have come at a more perfect time!!!
Ah, Tom Robbins! So many great first lines that I couldn't choose just one book! From top to bottom: Still Life with Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Another Roadside Attraction. All of these are due for a reread! #Booktober #GreatFirstLines
#greatfirstline maybe not the greatest I've read but it was the best one I found when pulling books off my shelves and reading first lines. Runners up were Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde and The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver. #booktober
We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love.
pickI'm happy I live in a time when a mind like Tom Robbins is writing books so I get to read them.
"We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves." pg. 99
here should be a picture of my favorite apple. it is also a nude & bottle. it is also a landscape. there is no such things as still lifes. -e. jong
pickI wasn't too sure. It started out weird. I wasn't in to it. It stayed weird, don't get me wrong. I began to understand it & underline it & love it. Full of insight & deep thoughts & concepts I'd never touch on my own. One of the best love stories I've ever read. Glorious. Definitely recommend it.
Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.
"All of us who're crazy enough and brave enough and in love enough."
