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    mixtapebooks: Mixtape, Volume II: From Yellow Springs to Flagstaff - Preview #6: “Hitched (YY)” by Justin David Koontz. Courtesy of MIXTAPEBOOKS.COM Thank you joshuarobertlong for bringing this to my attention!

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    Mixtape, Volume II: From Yellow Springs to Flagstaff - Preview #6: “Hitched (YY)” by Justin David Koontz. Courtesy of MIXTAPEBOOKS.COM

    Thank you joshuarobertlong for bringing this to my attention!

    (via joshuarobertlong)

     

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    Reading List Meme


    Jumping on the bandwagon….Cross out what you’ve already read! The average is 6…(apparently?) I got 54. I don’t know whether that’s a good thing! 


    Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
    The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
    Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
    Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
    To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
    The Bible - Council of Nicea
    Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 
    Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
    His Dark Materials -Philip Pullman

    Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
    Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
    Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
    Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

    Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
    The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 
    Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
    Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
    The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
    Middlemarch - George Eliot
    Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
    The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
    Bleak House - Charles Dickens
    War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
    The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
    Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
    Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
    Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
    The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
    Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
    David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
    Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
    Emma - Jane Austen
    Persuasion - Jane Austen
    The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis

    The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
    Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
    Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
    Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
    Animal Farm - George Orwell
    The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
    One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
    The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
    Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
    Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
    The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
    Lord of the Flies - William Golding
    Atonement - Ian McEwan
    Life of Pi - Yann Martel
    Dune - Frank Herbert
    Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
    Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
    A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
    The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
    Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 
    Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
    Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
    The Secret History - Donna Tartt
    The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 
    Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
    On The Road - Jack Kerouac
    Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
    Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
    Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 
    Moby Dick - Herman Melville
    Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
    Dracula - Bram Stoker
    The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
    Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
    Ulysses - James Joyce
    The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
    Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
    Germinal - Emile Zola
    Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
    Possession - AS Byatt
    A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
    Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
    The Color Purple - Alice Walker
    The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
    Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
    A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
    Charlotte’s Web - EB White
    The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
    Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
    Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
    The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
    The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
    Watership Down - Richard Adams
    A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 
    A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
    The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
    Hamlet - William Shakespeare
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
    Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

     

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    Shonda Rhimes is the new George R. R. Martin.

    That’s all.

     

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  4. Is It Real?

    “What is real?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”

    “Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but really loves you, then you become Real.”

    “Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.

    “Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”

    “Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”

    “It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it often doesn’t happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.

    Generally by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real, you can’t be ugly except to people who don’t understand.”

    - Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     

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    Stephanie Mowry, ‘The Straw the Stirs the Drink’.

    Stephanie Mowry, ‘The Straw the Stirs the Drink’.

     

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    Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others…for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
    — Albert Einstein
     

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  7. Taken with instagram

    Taken with instagram

     

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  8. An Alternate History of the Universe


    It doesn’t end well, the story of you and your friend, so you rewrite it. This way, you get the ending where your heart doesn’t break; this way, you never have to write your friend’s eulogy, and the world is as it should be.

    In your story, Switzerland isn’t a place, and she never tries white water rafting. In your story, freak waves and capsized boats don’t exist.

    You never receive a gasping-and-shaking call on a Monday morning; you never have the feeling you’ve been ripped up from the inside out. At no point do you yell at a florist for screwing up an arrangement, nor cradle her mum in your arms. There is no need for others to tell you to stay strong.

    In your story, she was never dragged under the heartless river. You don’t lie awake and wondering at night, thinking about the water, or how scared she must have felt, or punish yourself for not seeing her off at the airport because you were sick. In your story, you are not numb, you don’t forget your mother’s birthday and there is no need for antidepressants. You never call her phone to hear her voicemail and you never, ever, stand at her grave and whisper ‘I miss you’, into the autumn wind.

    The story you write has a different ending.

    In your story, you take a trip to the coast together. The air is warm and salty; the sun drenches you both as the sand squirms between your toes. You daydream about Ryan Gosling and you fight over which flavor of Boost juice is the best. There is a sunset, and there is the drive home, and there is the promise of tomorrow.

    In your story, tomorrow comes. 

     

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  9. She stood for a moment, letting the quiet of the room settle like dust around her, falling silently to the carpet beneath her feet.
    — Stephanie Ellen
     

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  10. Taken with instagram

    Taken with instagram

     

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