Brb having flashbacks to the college term paper I wrote about Gay Antonio™ in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
Libreria Acqua Alta in Venice, Italy
#ChaoticNeutralEvil
“You love me. Real or not real?”
I tell him, “Real.”
—Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
“Ugh, the book was better.”
PBS’s “It’s Lit!” series is great at boiling down huge concepts into a tight five, and this video is a case in point.
As someone who has a blast comparing film adaptations with their literary source material, this exploration of the topic nails what can sometimes be hard for book-lovers to succinctly express.
TL;DW: “Books are, by their very nature, more personal. When you’re reading a book, your brain is essentially acting as director, casting agent, cinematographer—Is it any wonder that people get protective of the books that they love being turned into a major motion picture? No! It’s as if a middle man has stepped in between you and the literal movie of your dreams.“
The library at Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
—Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
That Book Broad 