forgive the kids, for they don't know how to live.

october-afternoons:

partybarackisinthehousetonight:

im going to open a literature-themed coffee/dessert shop called “Lord of the Pies” and some of the flavor names will be:

  • the grape gatsby
  • lime & punishment
  • the adventures of blackberry finn
  • the crepes of wrath
  • the catcher in the pie
  • war and quiche
  • around the world in eighty buffets
  • 20,000 leagues under the tea
  • the call of the wildberry

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

-Stephen King

reblogging again because i love this.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
“Oh, sure you know,” the photographer said.
“She wants,” said Jay Cee wittily, “to be everything.
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via timemeantnothing)

cooltrainershells:

Recreate any Game/Film/Album cover using ONLY Clipart and Comic Sans

The great American Novel.

this is maybe the funniest concept ever

teachingliteracy:

amandaonwriting:
40 Famous People’s Favourite Books
Alec Baldwin: To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
Anne Hathaway: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Barack Obama: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Chevy Chase: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Daniel Radcliffe: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Danny Wallace: The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
Dermot O’Leary: The Bottoms by Joe R Lansdale
Donald Trump: The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vicent Peale
Drew Barrymore: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl
Emma Thompson: Odyssey by Homer
Gary Lineker: The Famous Five by Enid Blyton
George Clooney: War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Gordon Brown: The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson
James Nesbitt: The Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger
Jim Carrey: Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
John Travolta: Airport by Arthur Hailey
Jose Mourinho: The Bible
Kate Moss: The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kate Winslet: Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
Martin Sheen: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Matt Damon: A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Megan Fox: Kiss the Girls by James Patterson
Mel Gibson: 1984 by George Orwell
Morrissey: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
Natalie Portman: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Noel Edmonds: Born to be Riled by Jeremy Clarkson
Owen Wilson: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Pierce Brosnan: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Rob Brydon: Collected Works by Dylan Thomas
Robert Green: The Iliad by Homer
Simon Cowell: DisneyWar by James B. Stewart
Sir Alex Ferguson: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Sir Michael Caine: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Stephen King: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Steve Coogan: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Steven Spielberg: The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Tom Clancy: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Tom Hanks: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Wayne Rooney: Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone by J.K. Rowling
Will Smith: The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
From Writers Write

teachingliteracy:

amandaonwriting:

40 Famous People’s Favourite Books

  1. Alec Baldwin: To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
  2. Anne Hathaway: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  3. Barack Obama: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
  4. Chevy Chase: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  5. Daniel Radcliffe: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  6. Danny Wallace: The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
  7. Dermot O’Leary: The Bottoms by Joe R Lansdale
  8. Donald Trump: The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vicent Peale
  9. Drew Barrymore: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl
  10. Emma Thompson: Odyssey by Homer
  11. Gary Lineker: The Famous Five by Enid Blyton
  12. George Clooney: War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  13. Gordon Brown: The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson
  14. James Nesbitt: The Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger
  15. Jim Carrey: Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  16. John Travolta: Airport by Arthur Hailey
  17. Jose Mourinho: The Bible
  18. Kate Moss: The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  19. Kate Winslet: Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
  20. Martin Sheen: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  21. Matt Damon: A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
  22. Megan Fox: Kiss the Girls by James Patterson
  23. Mel Gibson: 1984 by George Orwell
  24. Morrissey: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
  25. Natalie Portman: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  26. Noel Edmonds: Born to be Riled by Jeremy Clarkson
  27. Owen Wilson: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  28. Pierce Brosnan: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  29. Rob Brydon: Collected Works by Dylan Thomas
  30. Robert Green: The Iliad by Homer
  31. Simon Cowell: DisneyWar by James B. Stewart
  32. Sir Alex Ferguson: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  33. Sir Michael Caine: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
  34. Stephen King: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  35. Steve Coogan: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
  36. Steven Spielberg: The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
  37. Tom Clancy: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
  38. Tom Hanks: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  39. Wayne Rooney: Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone by J.K. Rowling
  40. Will Smith: The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo

From Writers Write

can i live in this?

can i live in this?

this is why we call people exes, i guess — because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it’s too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it’s not, because there’s no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (via ahugfromlordvoldemort)
LOVE this. Seriously.

John Waters is the strangest but most interesting guy.

LOVE this. Seriously.

John Waters is the strangest but most interesting guy.

lionskeleton:

Watch Me, Read Me by Kevin Van Alest

lionskeleton:

Watch Me, Read Me by Kevin Van Alest