- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (I heard reviews about the movie, and I new that Emma Watson was in it, and I saw quotes on Instagram and watched the film. And new I wanted to read the book)
- To kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee (When I was 10 I watched a disney movie. I think it was called Zapped. And the supposed 'bad boy' was in the park reading "How to Kill a Mocking Bird"and in year 9 {this year} my english teacher said it was her favourite book, and thats when I really wanted to read it)
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (I was reading a list of the 50 most beautiful phrases in literature. The quote from this book was "In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars" , I just understood it)
- A Girl I Knew by J.D. Salinger (again part of the list. The one from this book is "She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together)
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath ("I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am"-some people take things different ways. The way I understood it was that this person is pushing to continue)
- And the Mountains Echoed ("Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly" - I just get it, I don't understand why mean people are usually pretty. Its misleading! Reminds me of the movie shallow Hal)
- Extremely Load and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer ("Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under he weight of all the lives I'm not living" - this is how I feel)
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ("What are men to rocks and mountains")
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ("The curves of your lips rewrite history")
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens ("A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it")
- Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham ("It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories")
- Beloved by Toni Morrison ("The pieces I am, she gathered them and gave them back to me in all the right order")
- Wild by Cheryl Strayed ("How wild it was, to let it be")
- Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard ("We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.")
- This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz ("The Half life of love is forever")
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte ("Iw ould always rather be Happy then Dignified")
- Aedh Wishes for he cloths of Heaven by W.B. Yeats ("I have spread my dreams under your feet; / Tread softly because you tread on my dreams")
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton ("It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes")
- The Big Sea ("For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly")
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ("I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night")
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ("So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past")
- Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare ("Journeys end in lovers meeting")
- The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare ("One must be careful of books, and what is inside them for words have the power to change us".)
- Pretty Little Liars (All the books)
Sunday, 24 April 2016
Books I want to read
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