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"I guess I like that idea that you could pretend yourself into new feelings and new relationships. Obviously I'm a big pretender. but the kind of leap where it's almost like some kind of science fiction thing happens. Like we were just pretending, and then what's this? We actually have new powers now, and we see each other differently, and in fact all of life has suddenly tilted. I'm going for that everyday, personally."
~ Miranda July

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Game Over: A boy is terrorized by video game characters that escape from his TV. Big twist: The boy is himself a character in a video game played by someone else.

Field Ghoul: A boy who isn’t good enough to make the team finds a mummy buried in the football field. It comes to life and terrorizes the school. Big twist: the mummy is great at football. The team makes it to nationals.

Ice Scream: A weird new ice cream truck has been coming around town. Kids who buy ice cream from it mysteriously disappear a few days later. Big twist: It is actually gelato.

Knife and Death: A group of friends discover a cursed knife which kills people when its blade is forced into vital areas of their bodies. Big twist: The kids think they have destroyed the knife, but it turns out there are many others just like it, easily available.

The Scary Owl: A young girl is new in town and she sees a scary owl. Big Twist: The story is an allegory for the horrors of war.

Money in the Bank: That haunted dummy from the one book puts on the haunted mask from the other book and finds that haunted camera what kills people and goes after some kids. Big twist: this all takes place in that haunted mirror from the one book, so the dummy is actually good and the kids are evil.

There is a Monster at the End of this Book: There are some kids and they are all scared of a monster. Big twist: the last page is a mirror; the reader is the monster. Take that, reader!

(nedroidcomics)

It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel) at the center of your being, then you can’t afford to sort out your love life, start to think of it as the finished product. You’ve got to pick at it, keep it alive and in turmoil, you’ve got to pick at it and unravel it until it all comes apart and you’re compelled to start all over again. Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as a consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship. Maybe Al Green is directly responsible for more than I ever realized.

Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

theparisreview:

In Japanese, tsundoku means, “the act of buying books and not reading them, leaving them to pile up.”

For more of this morning’s roundup, click here.

There’s a word for it?

Carl.

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The Record Books | Christophe Gowans

So these are beautiful.

neil-gaiman:

It will be released on June 18th 2013.

“It began for our narrator forty years ago, when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed.

His only defense are three women on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.”

Oooooh.

vanimore:

Lots of villages in the U.K. have turned red telephone boxes into mini libraries, just take a book and leave one behind.

The best.

(via zhcnsile)

nevver:

Nine Stories

USED BOOKS FOREVER.

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ageofperil:
Texas — yes, Texas — reclaimed an abandoned Walmart and turned it into a public library. More specifically, the town of McAllen did so and won itself an award from the International Interior Design Association. So don’t assume you know everything there is to know about the Lone Star State. It’s a big place with even bigger ideas.

One actual thing to feel patriotic about. The world only spins forward.

ageofperil:

Texas — yes, Texas — reclaimed an abandoned Walmart and turned it into a public library. More specifically, the town of McAllen did so and won itself an award from the International Interior Design Association. So don’t assume you know everything there is to know about the Lone Star State. It’s a big place with even bigger ideas.

One actual thing to feel patriotic about. The world only spins forward.

(via theparisreview)