October 2011
94 posts
20 Popular High School Books Available as Free... →
world-shaker:
Here’s a full list:
1984
Animal Farm
Brave New World
Frankenstein
Heart of Darkness
Romeo and Juliet
MacBeth
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
Pride & Prejudice
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Call of the Wild
The Crucible
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
The Odyssey
The Old Man and the Sea
The Red Badge of Courage
The Scarlet Letter
To Kill a Mockingbird
And...
Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They...
– Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country (via roger—waters)
You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The...
– Sean Connery (via booksandnerds)
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
– Petrarch (via presleylane)
We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But...
– Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
I took my time, running my fingers along the spines of books, stopping to pull a...
– Beth Pattillo, Jane Austen Ruined My Life (via bookoasis)
Dear squiggly green line,
byeraleigh:
The passive voice never hurt anyone.
Ignore all, Jim
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn’t something you do...
– http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/10/thoughts-on-joining-club-that-would.html (via neil-gaiman)
Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you...
– Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections
Isn’t it true that you start your life a sweet child, believing in everything...
– On The Road by Jack Kerouac