44/50 books read

december ༊*·˚

• who's afraid of virginia woolf? ▸ edward albee
  • — "i swear, if you existed i'd divorce you."
• the crucible ▸ arthur miller
  • — "whatever you will do, it is a good man does it."
• the normal heart ▸ larry kramer
  • — "that's how i want to be defined: as one of the men who fought the war."
• hedda gabler ▸ henrik ibsen
  • — "there's nothing but darkness before me."
• an enemy of the people ▸ henrik ibsen
  • — "the strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone."
• citizen soldiers ▸ stephen e. ambrose
  • — "so they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful."
• no exit ▸ jean-paul sartre
  • — "there's no need for red-hot pokers. hell is — other people!"
• a raisin in the sun ▸ lorraine hansberry
  • — "bitter? man, i'm a volcano. bitter? here i am a giant — surrounded by ants!"

november ༊*·˚

• ghosts ▸ henrik ibsen
  • — "over the whole country there must be ghosts, as numerous as the sands of the sea. and here we are, all of us, abysmally afraid of the light."
• screenplay: the foundations of screenwriting ▸ syd field
  • — "writing brings its own rewards. enjoy them."
• the master builder ▸ henrik ibsen
  • — "you are like the early dawn. when i look at you, it's as though i were looking at the sunrise."
• the terror ▸ dan simmons
  • — "where we touch, there is light."
• alice in bed ▸ susan sontag
  • — "i'm so far inside the way my life turned out i can't see the edge."
• death of a salesman ▸ arthur miller
  • — "the world is an oyster, but you don't crack it open on a mattress!"

october ༊*·˚

• empty sleeves: amputation in the civil war south ▸ brian craig miller
  • — "it is always the heart that is bravest in war that is fondest and truest in love."
• g.i. nightingales: the army nurse corps in wwii ▸ barbara tomblin
  • — "in her starched nurse's cap, white uniform, and navy blue cape, she raised her right hand and pledged to serve her country."
• murder in the cathedral ▸ t.s. eliot
  • — "for good or ill, let the wheel turn."

september ༊*·˚

• brothers in battle, best of friends ▸ wild bill guarnere
  • — "we looked out for each other, and the impossible became possible."
• in watermelon sugar ▸ richard brautigan
  • — "wherever you are, we must do the best we can."
• learning from the wounded: the civil war and the rise of american medical science ▸ shauna devine
  • — "americans had suffered but the lessons were not lost."
• trout fishing in america ▸ richard brautigan
  • — "it has been raining here now for two days, and through the trees, the heart stops beating."

august ༊*·˚

• pomes all sizes ▸ jack kerouac
  • — "it's all a dream that'll end / before we finish it -"
• the longest winter: the battle of the bulge and the epic story of wwii's most decorated platoon ▸ alex kershaw
  • — "give my regards to any of the old guys left, and give them hell. yank! good luck, and i pray it all ends soon."

july ༊*·˚

• good will hunting: a screenplay ▸ matt damon + ben affleck
  • — "you wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library."
• ghost soldiers: the epic account of wwii's greatest rescue mission ▸ hampton sides
  • — "these men suffered enough for a hundred lifetimes, and no one in this country should be allowed to forget it."

june ༊*·˚

• let me out: unlock your creative mind and bring your ideas to life ▸ peter himmelman
  • — "at some point you need to simply give way to doing. that point is now."
• poetry 101: a crash course in poetry ▸ susan dalzell
  • — "find the poems that speak to you."
• tipping the velvet ▸ sarah waters
  • — "she sang like a falling angel might sing with the bounds of heaven fresh burst behind him, and hell still distant and unguessed."
• the little book of hygge ▸ meik wiking
  • — "hygge is about making the most of what we have in abundance: the everyday."

may ༊*·˚

• ecstasy ▸ mary sharratt
  • — "men make the rules and we break them so we don't go mad."
• darker than the deepest sea: the search for nick drake ▸ trevor dann
  • — "i'm still not sure who i met; but then, that's what everyone says about him."

march ༊*·˚

• the world of henri cartier-bresson ▸ cartier-bresson
  • — "what is more fugitive than a facial expression?"
• just kids ▸ patti smith
  • — "no one expected me. everything awaited me."
• the mind's eye ▸ henri cartier-bresson
  • — "let my eye speak for me."

february ༊*·˚

• roman blood ▸ steven saylor
  • — "i've always found it best to plunge into peril without giving it too much thought."
• catiline ▸ henrik ibsen
  • — "perish thou shalt by deed thine own."
• at work ▸ annie leibovitz
  • — "i'm interested in getting something unpredictable, something you don't normally see."

january ༊*·˚

• dark matter ▸ blake crouch
  • — "as long as i'm with you, i know exactly who i am."
• andromache ▸ euripides
  • — "i can't bear it. the pain! the pain!"
• the overcoat ▸ nikolai gogol
  • — "and in those heart-rending words he heard others: i am your brother."
• the metamorphosis ▸ franz kafka ↺
  • — "let me go to gregor, he is my unfortunate boy!"
• out there ▸ michael wall
  • — "what a fascinating universe! aren't you glad you live here?"
• the death of ivan ilych ▸ leo tolstoy
  • — "and he had to live thus all alone on the brink of an abyss, with no one who understood or pitied him."
• crush ▸ richard siken
  • — "the dawn was breaking the bones of your heart like twigs."