Sansa Stark

I'm really into Chinese lit right now

Sequoioideae

I'm almost done with this, and I have a few other books I need to dive into, but It'll take me awhile to get back into reading a lot again. It's not only an assessment of the Angels, but of the media at the time. I'd be lying if this book didn't make me think of getting a motorcycle.

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God Is My Solar System

LoathsomePete

It took far longer than I anticipated but I finally finished Jam, which means I can move onto more interesting things, like this:



The Goblin Corps by Ari Marmell

A ragtag cohort of the various goblin-esque races brought together to bring death to humans. It's supposedly presented in a very black and white, good vs. evil style that slowly fades into shades of grey as you realize the bad guys aren't really that bad and the good guys aren't really that good. I did a little bit of research into the author and found out he wrote some of the supplement books for White Wolf, specifically Gehenna: The Final Night, Victorian Age: Vampire, and a few other smaller books. It's also funny and dark as fuck.

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david.looby

Reading increases vocabulary
Vocabulary is directly associated to IQ

The Batlord

I find it slightly ironic that this post is so short.

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IQ tests are 'fundamentally flawed' and using them alone to measure intelligence is a 'fallacy', study finds - Science - News - The Independent

i'm reading moby dick... and well, everyone knows what that's about. i used to read a lot more than i do now. primarily classics and non-fiction. i don't know what prompted me to read such a heavy and verbose work, but the vocabulary and subject matter are a nice foray both into a world i feel i left behind some time ago and the inner-workings a man utterly wrought with true substance. so i'll stick it out.

XtremeEclectic

Right now finally getting around the Quicksilver-by Neal Stephenson, Recently completed Ken Folletts-The Pillars of the Earth, and a very good victorian peice called The Crimson Petall and the White.

ThePhanastasio

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz.

It's pretty awesome so far. My limited Spanish - as in, able to read or listen to Spanish and get the gist of what they're talking about, but can't remember how to actually speak it because that was not emphasized in four years of the language - makes it fine for me...but torture for my mother who is also reading it. She took French in school. She knows no Spanish, aside from the obligatory, 'Hola.'

Also, how can I seem like less of a snotty **** when people try to talk books with me at work? If one more person asks me, "What did you think of Twilight/Fifty Shades of Grey/Nicholas Sparks novel," I'm going to explode. My default response is, "Oh, it was interesting (if I've read it) but I don't remember too much about it, honestly, because I was reading several books at once. Or, "Haven't read it yet, but I have a huge stack of books I need to read before I can move on to anything else."

Is there any alternative method that will shut them the **** up without sounding like a bitch? Because I worry my replies warrant a follow-up.

I also don't want to say that said book is "not my bag," because I think that would make me sound just as snotty, and/or condescending.

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Sansa Stark

Give them this when they talk about 50 shades

ThePhanastasio

I can't though, Hermione. They're thoughtless milfs who think 50 Shades to be sexual power.

I'm just like, "****. I get laid without having any interest in that book. Wow."

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