June 2011
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I am a huge non-fiction fan, so I have a few favorites I’m going to nominate for the “One Book, One Tumblr” thing.
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America by Bill Bryson
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March 2011
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PART FIVE/?
Cinderella’s Big Score by Maria Raha
This is an important book for me personally, since it was pretty much one of those ‘everything you know is bullshit and fuck everybody’ catalyzing moments. I discovered a lot of my favorite artists now through it, and how cool my mom is. Turns out she used to be one of these ladies, or maybe she still is, who knows. I’d say...
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“Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged...”
– Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
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“He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant...”
– Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
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“I’m a member and preacher to that church where the blind don’t see...”
– Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
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PART FOUR/?
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
If anyone understands, the South, it’s my gal Flannery. Her prose is weird, disturbing, and roaringly funny. My kind of stuff. This book, with the character of Lily Sabbath in particular, has been a big influence on my own writing.
Many people say this book is anti-religion, and I frankly find that laughable. Just because O’Connor recognized...
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“I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like...”
– The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
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PART THREE/?
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
This is probably the first adult book I ever read. I was really young when I did, like nine or ten. I found it completely mesmerizing. The stories in here are completely engrossing and occasionally unsettling. I appreciate that. But really, it’s hard not to make a book set in Florida boring.
I think my favorite digression might be the 19th Century orchid...
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“All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.”
– Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
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“The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.”
– Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
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“Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for...”
– Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
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PART TWO/?
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
It’s been said that this is the greatest graphic novel ever created, and that made may be true. All I know is that there is something essential about this book. This might be ostensibly about superheroes, but really it’s about the end of the world. It made me think, and that is one of the few things I ask from an author.
Oddly enough, I find...
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“There’s more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
– East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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“Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to a greater or a less degree....”
– East of Eden by John Steinbeck 