Word Nerd

English student at The University of Winchester, originally from Dorset. Budding journalist. Passionate about writing, reading, poetry, playing the violin and recorder, singing, photography, history, theatre, art, languages, cycling, walking, swimming and many more :) I don't hate anyone.

Summer reading.

Setting myself a target of reading AT LEAST one book a week for the entire summer holiday -June, July and August…

So far so good, almost finished Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga.

TECHNICALLY, I took this to Uni for the 3 weeks I was back, but I barely had time to breath some days, let alone read… This did not amuse me.

But, now, I have the whole summer to read, read, read! Obviously, some of this will be course reading later on but even so = happy days :)

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

—Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (via quotesfrommagicbooks)

I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person’s attitude so that they wouldn’t get any closer. I didn’t easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music.

—Haruki Murakami (via wow-ialmostgaveafuck)

rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness…

—Leo Tolstoy (via anathemawasteland)

Apocalypsex: 30-day book challenge!

ballerinafin:

  1. Your 10 favorite books of all time.

  2. Your 5 least favorite books of all time.

  3. Your favorite characters and which books they’re from.

  4. Characters you hate and which books they’re from.

  5. If you were stranded on a desert island, what five books would you take with you? Include one…

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

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-Elizabeth Hardwick  (via carolinagirlthebestintheworld)

I think this may now be my motto for life :)

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.

—Douglas Adams (via balletisart)

The meat was bruised, bleeding, and imprisonment in a tight wrapping. And, though I had a six-month respite from thinking about it, so was I.

—Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted. (via annualreadinglist)