I love this song by Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors. One of the lines: “You are a novel in a sea of magazines.” So good.
Books Seen ‘Round the Web
There have been so many good articles about books, reading, and writing lately and I wanted to take a moment to share them all in one place:
There’s so much hype about some books, and so little about others. This list of 27 underrated books over on Buzzfeed helps rectify that, and it features one of my favorites, The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Another good option listed is Firefly Lane
One of my new life goals is to become a Bibliotherapist. I had no idea such a thing existed, and now I think it’s my dream job. Recommend books to people to help them get through tought times or make big life changes? Sign me up!
Someone needs to buy me this map created using famous fictional places.
Growing up a book nerd had its ups and downs. Ups: escaping to awesome places, never being bored, having all your teachers like how quietly you sat in class and read. Downs: people picked on you. A lot. Buzzfeed caputred most of those up and down and inbetween feelings in this article.
I’m slowly jumping on the podcast bandwagon, but these 8 literary podcasts might just push me over the edge.
You can take a quiz to find out what your reading personality is. I’m apparently an “aesthete,” which means:
Plot and pacing are less important to you than the originality of the author’s imagination and use of language. You revere writers whose words can exalt everyday experience into a shareable sublimeness.”