view larger

Member: charicecakes

CollectionsYour library (150), To read (58), All collections (150)

ReviewsNone

TagsTBR (58) — see all tags

Cloudstag cloud, author cloud

Groups20-Something LibraryThingers, 50 Book Challenge, Banned Books, Comics, Erotica, Feminist Theory, Girlybooks, Japanese Culture, Poetry Fool, San Diego Bibliophiles — show all groups , Someone explain it to me..., Tea!, What Are You Reading Now?

Favorite authorsF. Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen King, Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Anaïs Nin, Osho, Marge Piercy, William Shakespeare (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAdams Avenue Book Store, Bay Books, Controversial Bookstore, Fifth Avenue Books, Maxwell's House of Books, Mysterious Galaxy, Nina’s Books, On Comic Ground, Upstart Crow Trading Company

About me"Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance."
- Alfred Edward Newton

"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
- C.S. Lewis

"If you are a man of learning,
read something classic,
a history of the human struggle
and don't settle for mediocre verse."
- Mevlana Rumi

"Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one allows himself to be animated by new images, he discovers iridescence in the images of old books. Poetic ages unite in a living memory. The new age awakens the old. The old age comes to live again in the new. Poetry is never as unified as when it diversifies."
- Gaston Bachelard

"I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young."
- Gaston Bachelard

"Reading seeks for the sweetness of a blessed life,
Meditation perceives it,
Prayer asks for it,
Contemplation tastes it."
- Guigo II

About my library"I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book does not shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place?"
- Franz Kafka

Also onLast.fm, LiveJournal, MySpace, Rate Your Music

Membership LibraryThing Early Reviewers/Member Giveaway

Real nameCharice

LocationCalifornia

Account typepublic, free

Connection NewsConnection News

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/charicecakes (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/charicecakes (library)

Common KnowledgeSeries (26), Awards (121), Characters (761), Places (159)

Member sinceApr 20, 2007