Annie I'm reporting your posts so they get deleted. You got this

A porcupine battle sounds awful, poor Tallulah!

A girl I know keeps rescue skunks and they are skittish but very sweet. One of them is friendly enough to cradle and play with a bit for a few seconds before it remembers its a skunk and gets skittish again. They seem pretty adorable and harmless when not in fear for their lives!

ty pwns

It is a sickness. A compulsion, not a consolation.

Yup. See the prestige. Zomg spoilers.

Yeah, I tried the one about a Japanese kid and abandoned it about two chapters in.

I didn't mind Cloud Atlas, but I didn't appreciate it for the virtuoso work of literary genius that some do, so I think I just don't have the brain for Mitchell.

g'nite erryone

get to sleep you little scamp

I just saw the movie version of Les Misérables. Wow, that was pretty awesome.

Only thing I didn't like was at the end:

I still have the movie and music running through my head.

thx for the undertitle

do we also need to spoiler

<3

holy crap! class was amazing tonight. i had the performance of my life! the teacher said i was "flawless". i never heard him say anything like that before. it was unreal. and the amazing girl was there. usually i get too nervous in front of her to perform well, but tonight was just magic. i don't know. i just did it. and she touched me twice when she came up to me to tell me how good i was

i feel like a taylor swift song

well done, filthy!!

There's a Japanese related story that's been shortlisted for the UK's most prestigious literary prize, the Booker. It's called A Tale For The Time Being, and it is a mix of philosophy and Buddhism and I loved the sound of it but it featured that hoary trope of the author as character, and gets the depth and lightness swapped in all the wrong places. Imo. So I'm torn, I love the ambition and ideas, hate ~60% ofthe execution.

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I can't say I've ever appreciated Literary Fiction. I tend to get about four or five chapters in and part of my brain starts going "Why are you reading this? You could be reading something you enjoy instead..." and then I give up and it joins the pile of books with eternal bookmarks in them.

Anything but the ****in eagles, man!

There's a tendency for literary fiction to be all pofaced and serious and look down on other genres, but really, genres are for bookshops: there are books and good books and not so good books and whichever ones you like is great within reason.

Literature isn't a genre, it's a mode of reading, a relationship between reader and book (and maybe author, I dunno) and sure you might get more literary insight from Tolstoy than Thomas the tank engine, but whatever.

Like, one of my favourite genres is travel writing, by which I mean that 95% of travel books I wouldn't consider reading, but some of my favourite books are travel books. Ditto science fiction and fantasy. Ditto crime.

i like eagles, unless they are bald

yeah, I mean, most of my friends are all into literary fiction and keep lending me books. Sometimes it works (I recently discovered I like Margaret Atwood) but most of the time my brain just gives up and I go read some Discworld

If you don't got Mojo Nixon
then your store could use some fiction.

-Dead Milkmen

bald eagle #1

congratulations, pwns

reading schmeading