Title: Ender's Shadow
Author: Orson Scott Card
Summary/Buy me: Here!
Genre: sci-fi fantasy
Pages: 379
Rating: C-
Notes: ( Quotes...)
Here's a stray thought: There were times when reading both Ender's Game and its companion, Ender's Shadow, when I was floored by the strong incestuous/homoerotic undercurrent. The boys are, like, seven years old. Get ( Read more... )

Jason Mraz: "You and I Both"

Was it you who spoke the words that things would happen but not to me?
All things are gonna happen naturally
Oh, taking your advice and I'm looking on the bright side
And balancing the whole thing

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Do not expect INTJs to actually care about how you view them. They already know that they are arrogant bastards with a morbid sense of humor. Telling them the obvious accomplishes nothing.

"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not becasue they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."

Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

BEST SECRET, EVAR. My inner 19th-century-bibliophile is doing backflips.


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"The Dance ( Read more... )

A young Malcolm X described the zoot suit as: "a killer-diller coat with a drape shape, reet pleats and shoulders padded like a lunatic's cell."

The better of 82 Writing Experiments by Bernadette MayerUsing phrases relating to one subject or idea, write about another, pushing metaphor and simile as far as you can. For example, use science terms to write about childhood or philosophic language to describe a shirt ( Read more... )

Doubleplusgood: OC Mary-Sue Litmus Test

Character's Full Name:
Reason or meaning of name:
Nickname/Reason for nickname:
Birthdate:
Astrological Sign:

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Stephen Crane, "The Heart"

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter - bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart."