March 2012
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“I’ve had librarians say to me, “People in my school don’t agree with...”
– David Levithan - Supporting Gay Teen Literature (via inastateofwishing)
February 2012
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Article: The Writer's Job- Tim Parks →
“I don’t like most people. I really, really don’t. I don’t like other people or a...”
– Amy Poehler (via princessnymeria)
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“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still...”
– Carl Sagan (via hadnotabody)
“You have witchcraft in your lips.”
– William Shakespeare, Henry V (via princessnymeria)
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In a cafe in Napier, with unbearably slow WiFi and...
Ten minutes in this godawful cafe and already my internet usage has maxed out. The couch is sticking to my jeans as I readjust my spindly legs and there’s a spot of bird poo on the armrest beside me, even though we’re indoors. Something is drawing the flies to this corner of the cafe. I’m at the butt end, near a stretching dark passage leading to a laquered black door. There’s the sound of crates...
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I work for Whitcoulls.
Today was payday.
Mum drove me out to the mall as a “treat”.
My wages were largely spent on books.
From Whitcoulls.
This is a nasty cycle, and I’m the victim. I can just imagine the Whitcoulls head honcho devising this plan to employ booklovers who will inevitably spend their wages on books from the same store at which they work. This prick is taking...
