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December 2010
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“What it came down to was this: they loved each other, but they couldn’t get along. Did that make any sense to him?
No, it made no sense to him at all. The boy was utterly confused by then, but he was too afraid to admit it to his father, who was making every effort to treat him as an adult, but he wasn’t up to the job that day, the world of adults was unfathomable to him at...
August 2010
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How Preschool Changes the Brain | Wired Science |... →
notemily:
(via robot-heart-politics)
“The economists calculate that, for every dollar invested in preschool for at-risk children, society at large reaps somewhere between eight and nine dollars in return. That’s how I want my tax-dollars spent.”
The same effect is seen from early literacy education, which can take the form of library storytimes as well as parents reading to their kids.
July 2010
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ppparasol:
Characters in Wuthering Heights whom I hate:
all of them
except Isabella’s dog
which Heathcliff kills
asshole
asshole
I forgot about Hareton
he’s okay too
but his name is ridiculous
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June 2010
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“Don’t worry about your Meal Plan lacking variety at the moment. At least you have a Meal Plan. That is the most important thing. You can’t go too far wrong in life if you have a Meal Plan, no matter how rudimentary. (Eternal advice from father to daughter. Write it down and inscribe it somewhere.)”
- email from my Dad
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May 2010
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Meditations on Noise →
“There is dignity in quiet things and quiet people.”
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“‘I shall take the heart,’ returned the Tin Woodman; ‘for brains do not make one...”
– The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum (via libraryland)
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Important euphemisms, you guys! →
We’ve all heard the “Kristen Stewart can’t come out before Twilight is finished because it would distort her for-Edward’s-penis-only billion dollar persona” argument. Then this past week, Kristen appeared on Oprah with the rest of Twilight’s main cast. Here is part of the transcript. …
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The Playboy and his Western World →
“With Playboy’s success, Hef had the opportunity to discover how much he too liked sex, and not just in theory. He started slowly but soon was jumping every pretty girl who passed, and he was, after all, in the pretty-girl business. Divorce in 1959 was a mere formality, and he never looked back. He even indulged in one homosexual encounter: what the hell, it was experience. He drew the...
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Stops being pulled to save Yann in light of mixed... →
Publisher’s Weekly reviews Beatrice and Virgil by saying: “The prose is amateur and the characters thin, the coy self-referentiality grates, and the fable at the center of the novel is unbearably self-conscious.” But BookNinja makes an important observation - “I suspect this is one of those books that will be taught for years and years to come, despite its critical failure today....
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thebronzemedal:
I just read a library “incident report” saying a teenager was observed dancing outside the library. Who wrote this report, the preacher from Footloose?
My new career aspiration: Write these kind of incident reports.
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- Rachael Yamagata, “Quiet”, from the...
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April 2010
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“There is some kind of code of etiquette for sleeping with someone for the first...”
– Elliot Perlman, “Good Morning Again”, the reasons I won’t be coming