January 2nd, 2013 at 12:43PM
Maybe we just got lucky. But this luck makes me believe that changing the course of the corporate world is possible. Amazon doesn’t get to make all the decisions; the people can make them, by choosing how and where they spend their money. If what a bookstore offers matters to you, then shop at a bookstore. If you feel that the experience of reading a book is valuable, then read a book. This is how we change the world: We grab hold of it. We change ourselves. —

The Bookstore Strikes Back - Ann Patchett - The Atlantic

Just re-read this in hard copy while crying into my New Years Day bubble bath. Feelings!

(via rachelfershleiser)

(via rachelfershleiser)
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December 28th, 2012 at 5:45PM
Our new ebook of all-illustrated Six-Word Memoirs by students with TED Books is here! Check it out and watch a slideshow in the Washington Post. 

Our new ebook of all-illustrated Six-Word Memoirs by students with TED Books is here! Check it out and watch a slideshow in the Washington Post. 

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December 22nd, 2012 at 1:35PM
New Six-Word Memoir Book Is Out!!
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December 22nd, 2012 at 1:33PM
Maybe it was the whiskey, on a hangover and a half-empty stomach. Strange things spun in my mind, sprayed showers of light like prisms. I thought of ancient stories: battered travelers stumbling out of the storm into glowing banquet halls, losing hold of their old lives at the first taste of bread or honey wine; of that first night, the four of them smiling at me across the laden table and the lifted wineglasses and the curls of ivy, smooth-skinned and beautiful, with candlelight in their eyes. I remembered the second before Daniel and I kissed, how the five of us had risen up in front of me breathtaking and eternal as ghosts, hanging sweet and gauzy over the drifts of grass; and that danger drum, somewhere behind my ears. — The Likeness - Tana French (via bonniemarie)
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December 17th, 2012 at 11:37AM
yup.

yup.

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December 13th, 2012 at 10:11AM
izzys-emporium: Jhumpa Lahiri just opened my eyes to the possibilities of fiction. I have been struggling all semester in my fiction class. I was blaming my lack of maturity in terms of writing, but after reading A Temporary Matter I realized it was my false ideas of what fiction really is that was giving me difficulty. If you have the time give this story a read—it’s good—it won the Pulitzer!  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/lahiri-maladies.html

izzys-emporium:

Jhumpa Lahiri just opened my eyes to the possibilities of fiction. I have been struggling all semester in my fiction class. I was blaming my lack of maturity in terms of writing, but after reading A Temporary Matter I realized it was my false ideas of what fiction really is that was giving me difficulty. If you have the time give this story a read—it’s good—it won the Pulitzer! 

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/lahiri-maladies.html

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November 28th, 2012 at 10:20AM
i agree.

i agree.

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November 28th, 2012 at 10:14AM
objectively, pretty ingenious.

objectively, pretty ingenious.

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November 27th, 2012 at 4:04PM
ilovecharts: What Should I Read Next? :: cough :: I Love Charts: The Book :: cough :: great gift :: cough :: fits :: cough :: in a stocking :: cough :: this is pretty awesome.

ilovecharts:

What Should I Read Next?

:: cough :: I Love Charts: The Book :: cough :: great gift :: cough :: fits :: cough :: in a stocking :: cough ::

this is pretty awesome.

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November 26th, 2012 at 10:29AM
yes, yes, a thousand times YES. 

yes, yes, a thousand times YES. 

(via incrediblewishes)

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