housingworksbookstore:

newsweek:

urlesque:

scottfriday:

“Depending on the amount of time and participants, we define a project for every workshop.”

“Indeed, like in any endeavor, change and neural rewiring takes hard work over time.” : |

“There were differences between the groups.” Woo boy.

“Mrs. Winterson loved multi-purpose electrical goodies of hideous design.” I’m scared, Mrs. Winterson.

“Although Asher has a steady museum career, the real importance of his art lies in the way it has inspired a dynamic oral culture.”    Dynamic oral culture, I like the sound of that.

I just finished reading Good Omens for the first time and it reminded me why I think Neil Gaiman is a god. I have to re-read Sandman; it’s been at least a year since I’ve last read it and I’ve just been browsing the tumblr tag, remembering how good it was. If you guys haven’t read it you should get on that.

(Source: hegemon)

This chart encompasses everything that falls under the title of Sci-Fi since the birth of the genre. Also it looks kinda like a squid. Score!

;) - The Sugar

I’ve been feeling the unbearable pressure of having to grow up lately and it has been reminding me that growing up also means getting old. You would think that since the two go hand in hand the connection would be obvious, but prior to this school year I had this weird image of myself as going through adulthood with the body of a 16 year-old. I came across this article and it just reaffirmed my fears that soon enough everyone has to grow old. Out of the 30 books listed I’ve only read eleven of them. I’ve decided that’s a problem and within in the next year I’m going to change that. If I’m going to grow old I’m going to be edumacated whilst I do so. I retyped the list here and bolded the ones that I’ve already read. My goal is by next November to have at least read twenty of these books.

1. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse 

2. 1984 by George Orwell

3. To Kill A Mocking Bird  by Harper Lee

4. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

5. For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

6. War and Peace  by Leo Tolstoy

7. The Rights of Man by Tom Paine

8. The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

9. One-Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

10. The Origin of Species  by Charles Darwin

11. The Wisdom of the Desert by Thomas Merton

12. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

13. The Wind in the Willow by Kenneth Graham

14. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

15. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien

16. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

17. Four Quartets by T.S Eliot

18. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

19. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

20. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger

21. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

22. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

23. Walden by Henry David Thoreau

24. The Republic by Plato

25. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

26. Getting Things Done by David Allen

27. How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

28. Lord of the Flies  by William Golding

29. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

30. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

I’ve read excerpts from some of these books in school, but I decided not to mark them as read because that would be cheating. I think I’ll start off with the classical fiction and move on to the instruction manuals for life. 

;) - The Sugar

P.S I’m going to try to start posting on a semi-normal schedule again although my workload is exceeding a shit-ton right now.

I used to be a huge Facebook addict because how can one not get addicted to stalking thousands of pictures of people that you only vaguely know? But a few months ago my friend Sadie, who got rid of her Facebook last summer introduced me to this little gem called Goodreads. When she tried to explain it to me she said it was “Facebook for books”. I immediately pictured a social networking site that involved thousands of fictional characters interacting with each other and quickly asked her to explain when I started to wonder if Harry Potter and Harry Dresden were friends on it.

After a little explanation, Goodreads was revealed to be a website very similar to Facebook. You could add friends, update your status, take quizzes and even join groups. The main difference was that it all of the site’s features relate to books. Although this blog doesn’t really show it I’m a huge reader. Essentially you search books that you have read or want to read and you get to add them into your own personal library. Other users can see what books you’ve read and what ratings you gave them. You can write reviews and comment on what books your friends are reading. 

Being a Goodreads for a few hours is definitely more mentally stimulating than wasting away on Facebook and I’ve found a few good books to read thanks to it. For all of those avid readers out there, get a Goodreads and friend me!!

;) - The Sugar