Amazon has a list of the most popular highlighted passages in Kindle books: [link]
Which is cool, but also kind of weird to me.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Consuela - Apr 24, 2012 7:11:30 am PDT #18519 of 28686
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Toddson - Apr 24, 2012 8:10:43 am PDT #18520 of 28686
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Not sure this qualifies as literary, but I spotted this on Smart Bitches, Trashy Books: Three Way by the Sea. Were-dolphins. Gay were-dolphins.
Amy, be glad you didn't have to write the "cover copy" for this; you've been spared something.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 24, 2012 8:55:41 am PDT #18521 of 28686
You have to remember that being a 5-time Olympic medalist means Hilary Knight has been playing hockey at an elite level at least 16 years. It's impossible for her to be a teenage girl less than 16 years old, thus the President's complete lack of interest.
Just knowing it exists is traumatic enough.
Connie Neil - Apr 24, 2012 2:51:48 pm PDT #18522 of 28686
brillig
I'm re-reading Mark Reads LotR, and I can't remember if he did the live blog of Return of the King, and I can't figure out where to look.
Polter-Cow - Apr 24, 2012 3:04:49 pm PDT #18523 of 28686
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It was on Mark Watches. Spoiler warning: it destroyed him.
Connie Neil - Apr 24, 2012 3:29:04 pm PDT #18524 of 28686
brillig
Thanks, Polter!
megan walker - Apr 25, 2012 5:13:34 am PDT #18525 of 28686
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Question for teaching types from my podcast crush SavidgeReads:
she needs a piece of fiction, it doesn’t have to be massively long, that persuades, in a paragraph or two, another character to do something.
It initially sounds really obvious, and I nearly stated as much on the phone, until I thought about it and was stuck. You see all my examples seemed to be unreliable narrators persuading me they were telling the truth... which takes a whole book. Mum needs some short examples, the characters can be persuading good or bad things from the other, to discuss with the children she teaches.
Hil R. - Apr 25, 2012 5:18:10 am PDT #18526 of 28686
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Several scenes from Anne of Green Gables come to mind -- the one where Anne and Diana swear to be friends, and the one where Jane (I think? Or was it Ruby?) dares Anne to walk along the roof.
Jessica - Apr 25, 2012 5:20:35 am PDT #18527 of 28686
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Tom Sawyer getting out of whitewashing the fence?
Amy - Apr 25, 2012 5:21:24 am PDT #18528 of 28686
Because books.
How old are the students? She could either use Rochester persuading Jane to marry him, or from A Little Princess, the scene where Sara convinces Lottie to stop throwing a tantrum.