::Illumine Ate Me::

"one day i will find the right words, and they will be simple." -jack kerouac

05 April 2011

"i think love is fearless"

me







without you




is like
taylor swift


without rain



"the way you move is like a full on rain storm. and i'm a house of cards."
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october 2010: try something new
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50 in 52: Books I've Read in 2012

  • 1. Fizzles by Samuel Beckett
  • 2. The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
  • 3. A Man without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
  • 4. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
  • 5. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
  • 6. The Thing about Life is that One Day You'll be Dead by David Shields
  • 7. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
  • 8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • 9. Rock Springs by Richard Ford
  • 10. Hedgehogs: A Complete Pet Owner's Manual by Kees Vriends
  • 11. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
  • 12. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
  • 13. A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
  • 14. Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
  • 15. The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
  • 16. What I Wore by Jessica Quirk
  • 17. What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
  • 18. Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
  • 19. Looking for Alaska by John Green
  • 20. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • 21. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
  • 22. Bones of Faerie by Janni Lee Simner
  • 23. The Sea is my Brother by Jack Kerouac
  • 24. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 25. The Children of Men by PD James
  • 26. The Fire-Eaters by David Almond
  • 27. About Grace by Anthony Doerr
  • 28. The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore
  • 29. Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
  • 30. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
  • 31. A Room with a View by EM Forster
  • 32. Bite Me: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
  • 33. Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
  • 34. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
  • 35. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  • 36. Naruto, Vol 1: The Tests of the Ninja (manga) by Masashi Kishimoto
  • 37. Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
  • 38. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
  • 39. The BFG by Roald Dahl
  • 40. Naruto, Vol 2: The Worst Client (manga) by Masashi Kishimoto
  • 41. Naruto, Vol 3: Bridge of Courage (manga) by Masashi Kishimoto
  • 42. Something Rotten by Alan M. Gratz
  • 43. Damned by Chuck Palahniuk
  • 44. The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci
  • 45. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 46. The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
  • 47. The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
  • 48. 2BR0B by Kurt Vonnegut
  • 49. Night School by Caroline B. Cooney
  • 50. The Divine Comedy, Vol One: Inferno by Dante

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