Sep. 17, 2010 at 4:25pm with 47 notes View comments
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GPOYRandomlyAcquiredBookWithACoverThatMatchesYourTankFriday I should totally write books for kids. Bean would be my imaginary narrator. They’d be bestsellers and Bean would spend years in therapy. And then I’d write the one book actually in my own voice, and people would be like,  Wow. Mommy has thoughts and stuff. 

GPOYRandomlyAcquiredBookWithACoverThatMatchesYourTankFriday

I should totally write books for kids. Bean would be my imaginary narrator. They’d be bestsellers and Bean would spend years in therapy. And then I’d write the one book actually in my own voice, and people would be like, 

Wow. Mommy has thoughts and stuff. 

Jul. 31, 2010 at 3:23pm with 32 notes View comments
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“
Sometimes I wish I could see my brain. I’d like to know what marks have been carved in it. I imagine it grey, damp, elaborate. It think of it sitting in my head, and sometimes I feel as if there’s me, who’s living life, and this strange thing stuck in my head that sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. It’s very odd. This is me. This is my brain. This is the pain that lives in my brain. Look here and you can see where the pain scratched this thing, what places are knotty and lumped up, which places are glowing.
—

Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon

*”Glowing.”*

Jun. 4, 2010 at 12:58am with 16 notes View comments
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Fact.

I love how The Great Santini calls his kids “sportsfans”, even when he’s only talking to one of them. 

Apr. 3, 2010 at 11:07am View comments
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“Just as they were thinking that the sun was gone forever, a piece of it appeared. When they stood watching, the piece grew bigger and bigger. They sky got lighter and lighter. The moon was moving on. The sun was still there.”

“Just as they were thinking that the sun was gone forever, a piece of it appeared. When they stood watching, the piece grew bigger and bigger. They sky got lighter and lighter. The moon was moving on. The sun was still there.”

10:18am View comments
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Someone Is Eating The Sun This was one of my all-time favorites when I was a kid. The illustrations are gorgeous. Somewhat ominous, even.  The animals get themselves all riled up and in a panic because they think the sun is disappearing forever. It’s a turtle who is the voice of reason, explaining that it’s just an eclipse.  (Also, 95¢!) Does anyone else remember this book? 

Someone Is Eating The Sun

This was one of my all-time favorites when I was a kid. The illustrations are gorgeous. Somewhat ominous, even. 

The animals get themselves all riled up and in a panic because they think the sun is disappearing forever. It’s a turtle who is the voice of reason, explaining that it’s just an eclipse. 

(Also, 95¢!)

Does anyone else remember this book? 

Dec. 17, 2009 at 11:45pm with 33 notes View comments
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As told to Paul Gambaccini. Published 1976. This book will be a Christmas present for one of my uncles. Assuming I can bear to part with it.

As told to Paul Gambaccini. Published 1976.

This book will be a Christmas present for one of my uncles. Assuming I can bear to part with it.