My Oh My!

Well it's been suggested to me since so many of my posts are about The Bell Jar, to check out this website called Book Drum. I'm already dying and reading into some of my favorite books. It's like someone put together a website to help explain and go further and deeper into the facts and tid bits of books, just for me. This is the type of stuff I love.

And now, I know what I'm gonna do with the rest of my morning :)

Cuz it's Aug.

“If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad.” — Sylvia Plath

Listening to The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath audiobook, again. It's just that time of the year. God its amazing.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close By Jonathan Safran Foer

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I just finished reading this Monday night, and again am blown away by Jonathan Safran Foer. (He wrote Everything is Illuminated, which I've posted about here before)

Just like Everything is Illuminated, this book can easily make me cray, laugh, reread, want to scream, breaks my heart, rebuilds it back up... all over and over again.

“I pointed her index fingers toward each other and slowly, very slowly, moved them in, the closer they got, the more slowly I moved them, and then, as they were about to touch, as they were only a dictionary page from touching, pressing on opposite sides of the word “love,” I stopped them, I stopped them and held them there. I don’t know what she thought, I don’t know what she understood, or what she wouldn’t allow herself to understand, I turned around and walked away from her, I didn’t look back, I won’t.”


“Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are.”

“Songs are as sad as the listener.”

These quotes almost make it seem like an all sad book. But it's truly beautiful. About an odd little boy on a mission after his father is killed in the Sept 11th attacks. I'll leave it at that.. Plus there is still a numbers puzzle in the book that I need to figure out... I love puzzles.

quotes from some of my favorite books...

I'm in a quote-y mood today... and a book-y mood as well.

• To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream. --Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar
• In the end, the tortures tearing the Libson girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws. --Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides
• The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside, there is no comparison. --Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
• I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem. --Jonathan Safran Foer Everything is Illuminated
• It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. --Chuck Palahniuk Diary
• Most men would never tell a girl her Pikachu smells like a crab cake. --Chelsea Handler Are you there god? It's me Chelsea

Adorable, Just.... Adorable.

Yesterday I read that they may be making a movie based on the book Get Happy, The Life of Judy Garland, by Gerald Clarke. I had wanted to read this book for sometime, and instead of ordering a used copy online for super cheap and having it mailed to me.. I decided I just couldn't wait. I reserved a copy from Barnes and Noble and picked it up on the way home.

I think I love young Judy Garland more then older Judy Garland for many reasons. Her adorable nature, her "chubby" little body, and that VOICE! My goodness. The first chapter was very boring to me, I didn't really care to know about her grandparents and where they came from and what they did with their lives, and I did skim over a couple paragraphs here and there, just cuz I wanted to get to the good stuff. Now I'm sucked in! 90 pages later, I'm about to break into the chapter about The Wizard of Oz.. :)

Yes I may be reading many books right now. This one, 1984, a book about D.I.D. called Amongst Us, listening to the audio book of The Bell Jar (again), as well as working on re-reading all 3 scripts for my massive amount of theatre this Spring/Summer with Darkroom. :) I can't help it. When life gets to you, loose yourself into a book. Dare I say I rather read then paint? Well, maybe so, but books do inspire my art.




I love this video. She is just so believable and adorable. I wanna scoop her up in my arms. Yeah that sounds creepy.


Those eyes! Ugh, I totally had the hots for her in this movie. Again I sound creepy.

Book Covers

Some Girls Love Pretty Jewelry, I'll just take Pretty Books.

Now, you may or may not know that reading is one of my favorite things to do. Always has been, my book shelves are full, and I have extra books packed up in both my mother's attic, and my fathers basement. It's not fair that there could be so many books in the world that I want to read, and that I don't have the time to do it.

I can spend hours in a book store, and for a while a few years back, I would just hang out every night for 4 hours or so in Boarders waiting for Todd to get off work next door. The covers are usually what draws me in. I'll read the back of any book with an interesting cover. I fall in love with the images that are used to get a point across with one glance. Crazy obsession? Yes. But I can't help it. Here are a few of my favorites.


The Virgin Suicides. I couldn't actually find this cover at the store when I bought the book, which is sad, but the one I have is still beautiful.



The Bell Jar. I've seen tons of covers for this book in my day, but I held out buying it until I found this cover. I couldn't be happier.



Babyji. I can't remember if I bought this, or if a friend gave it to me. But it's amazing and the cover... is gorgeous.