January 2011
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“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t...”
– John Waters (via euphoriaaaa)
September 2010
1 post
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The librarian: The Abortion by Richard Brautigan
The librarian narrator in The Abortion by Richard Brautigan is aDORable. He is impossibly awkward, likes younger women (which goes perfectly with my thing for older men) AND he’s the most dedicated librarian you’ll ever meet.
Okay sure, he didn’t actually ever leave the library (which was also kind of his house) for the entire time he worked there, and okay, sure he got his...
August 2010
1 post
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Literary Lusts: Dr Malcolm
Didn’t anyone tell you? Chaos Theory is sex eh. That is to say sexy. Oh dear, my typing and brain functions have gone all a flutter just thinking about this particular literary doc. And before you go berating me for dubiously labelling anything by Michael Crichton ‘literary’, keep in mind that Dr Malcolm is a result of words on paper. Ergo, he a bonafide literary lust.
Of...
July 2010
5 posts
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Stanley Kowalski
Why?
Because I’m one of those girls who really likes a nice guy. But I’m also one of those girls who is, for strange reasons, really attracted to this abusive, misogynistic son-of-a-bitch who is filled to the brim with dirty, dirty testosterone. Go on, drool. It’s okay, nobody’s gonna know.
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Westley (The Princess Bride)
Talk about your devoted man. This sweet but brave farm boy-turned-adventurer goes up against all sorts of evil and malice in his quest to reunite with his beloved Buttercup. Imagine having a man whose every response is “as you wish”? Sure, it might get a bit boring after a while, but really. Look at his face (we have to go with the movie adaptation here because Cary Elwes was just so damn...
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Atticus Finch
Oh Atticus. I know every girl deep down loves a bad boy. And yes, there is always going to be a part of me that wishes he would just, oh I dunno, get on a motorbike with me and break some speeding laws, maybe hurl a brick at a shop window after midnight. But when it comes down to why this lawyer-man is so damn sexy, it’s all about his honest-to-goodness heart of gold. He’s a loving father (I...
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Severus Snape
Severus Snape. Gosh, where do I start? The greasy mop of hair? The large hook-like nose? Now some of you may object to this choice, or even to Harry Potter being counted as ‘literary’ but quiet, you. I heart Severus. Especially because we got to find out I was right about him all along. He WAS good. And he loved Lily. It was so sweet and tear-jerking. Also, he died. Nobly. He didn’t WANT to kill...
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Mr Rochester
He’s grumpy as hell. He treats his daughter as if she were an annoying little French pebble in his shoe. He’s also kinda disfigured on account of the fire that burned his house down. And he attempted to commit bigamy against his criminally insane wife. Yes, readers, I have just described my long-time literary crush, Mr. Edward Rochester, eventual husband of Jane Eyre, and master of...
March 2010
3 posts
Sometimes I have so much to say
and don’t know how to say it. So I try a story, a letter, and a song. If none of these work I banish the thoughts through meditation. It’s worked so far.
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Literary Lusts: Jacob Coote
This terrorising bad boy from Cook High who once cracked two eggs on Josie Alibrandi’s glasses is just lusty lusty teen hotness. Yep. I’m talking about THAT hot Jacob. The one from Melina Marchetta’s YA staple, Looking For Alibrandi
Plus, he clearly has a thing for foreign booknerdy girls with frizzy hair and glasses and strict mothers. I’m SO IN. He dated Josie, and...
Things I miss
I miss going out and dancing to fluorescent music till 5am when my shoes are broken and I’m sweaty and out of breath. I miss being able to drive, and being in control of which lane I’m in, and how fast I’m going. And where I’m going. I miss crashing. At people’s houses. I miss always having someone to call when I’m bored. I miss feeling pulled in all directions....
May 2009
11 posts
With Extra Pulp →
Cool blog about books, genre and zine. Mostly books. Mostly rad.
“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
– Oscar Wilde (aka my hero)
Words that irk me.
Totes. People shouldn’t use it. Defs is right up there with it (unless you have almost reached your sms/twitter character limit).
So I got my blog which rad and all but limited. This one is dedicated to everything that I wanted to put in my blog but couldn’t because I was thinking of my lovely readers and their fragile attention span.
Call it my cultural awakening of the digital age....
