I am Meagan

I always feel like reading the newspaper, until I actually start reading the newspaper.

“[…] there is this existential loneliness in the real world. I don’t know what you’re thinking or what it’s like inside you and you don’t know what it’s like inside me. In fiction I think we can leap over that wall itself in a certain way. But that’s just the first level, because the idea of mental or emotional intimacy with a character is a delusion or a contrivance that’s set up through art by the writer. There’s another level that a piece of fiction is a conversation. There’s a relationship set up between the reader and the writer that’s very strange and very complicated and hard to talk about. A really great piece of fiction for me may or may not take me away and make me forget that I’m sitting in a chair. There’s real commercial stuff can do that, and a riveting plot can do that, but it doesn’t make me feel less lonely.

There’s a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do. It doesn’t happen all the time. It’s these brief flashes or flames, but I get that sometimes. I feel unalone — intellectually, emotionally, spiritually. I feel human and unalone and that I’m in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness in fiction and poetry in a way that I don’t with other art.” –

David Foster Wallace

(via clementina)

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The reason I will never buy an eReader.

olfactoryorchestra:

This truly breaks my heart

I pledge to read the printed word

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85 years!?

fuck your online books, nothing can compare to curling up with a good PRINTED book and flipping through the pages, especially on stormy nights with a cup of tea. Never ever reading books online.

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This makes me want to cry. :^(

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“Buying books is immensely comforting. Maybe I won’t read them immediately, but they make me feel so much better whenever I’m sad and blue. Just their presence, it’s like having more to look forward to.” – vagabond (via loveyourchaos)

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Currently Reading

The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker.

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My friend Kelly has delightful taste. Want them all!

catsandcomicbooks:

Been away at college so my mom was holding it. BUT ITS MINE NOW! And I have generated a list of things I do not need but definitely want and will now be able to buy.

Y: The Last Man. I have the first 3 but I need the rest! It is an amazing story and I highly recommend it.

Books in general! I love to read and I am a book hoarder.

Girly Things! I really like Butter London’s new Spring/Summer collection.

Jewelry! Rings! I am a big ring girl. I am usually wearing 3 or 4 at any given time.

Finally, nerd stuff. PJs. Tshirts. Doctor Who stuff. HP stuff. Star Wars backpack!

Now can I realistically afford all this? No. But a girl can dream, right!?

Books I have recently started and have yet to finish-

Kick-Ass
Fragile Things
Wuthering Heights
Haunted
Fight Club
The Fountainhead

This is becoming a bad habit.

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Reading The Fountainhead on my roof until it’s too dark to read!

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