May 2012
47 posts
a-sky-so-pristine:
José González - Heartbeats
I...
“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that...”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via amandaonwriting)
“If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you...”
– Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (via prettybooks)
“I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures...”
– Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (via bookmania)
“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin (via misswallflower)
12 Famous Book Titles That Come From Poetry →
teachingliteracy:
amandaonwriting:
1. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - “I Knew a Woman” by Theodore Roethke
I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them; Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one: The shapes a bright container can contain!
2. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh - The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
…I will show you something...
April 2012
98 posts
