h o m e l e s s | considering.

[revolter]

You can't read a SparkNote for an exam, it's cheating.

Portrait of a Lady is wonderful, you should give it a chance. It's not just called masterpiece literature for nothing, you know.

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Matilda! Oh my childhood!

[giveadragonsomelove]

What if the books totally boring tough, yo? Can't we SparkNotes it then?

[abitofearth]

What on earth is a SparkNote?

:D

[revolter]

Books aren't boring, books are wonderful.

[revolter]

Something terrible that sums a wonderful novel into a page of summary that doesn't do it any justice.

[abitofearth]

I don't really read myself, but that does sound an awful lot like cheating.

omg matilda. i was... just... ranting... about how badly i wanted one at c&c...

[alldeduction]

There's more of worth to read if you can escape from 'literature'.

There's no point retaining knowledge that will only crowd out what's important.

[revolter]

Do you play?

[ well, if you don't read, might as well try to play. ]

Really? :D

[revolter]

I read everything.

I love literature. I love imagining the words becoming real.

I really really was. :| I love her to death, ngl.

[alldeduction]

Everything. Science? Forensics? [sherlock that is not children reading material]

[A small smirk. She'd fit right in, in the City. Words becoming real...

... And then he can't help himself.]

I'm not a man for literature myself, though there's one particular book I've heard of that I admit tugs at the imagination.

she's my favorite too and omg I'll definitely consider, it sounds amazing for her

[revolter]

[ She nods at the question. ]

Math too. I once read a book of physics in the library. There aren't many of them, though.

[ smiling a bit. ]

I think almost every person has a book like that.

[ ..except for her parents. ]

this is amazing

[secondguessing]

I still can't grasp the purpose of reading a summary instead of reading the real thing, it seems so . . . impersonal.

[abitofearth]

Play? More than I used to. Martha taught me to skip rope.

gently seconding the come to cnc

[futurebatwoman]

Oh come on, that's not cheating. It's thinking creatively.

All my feelings~

[giveadragonsomelove]

You really like books, don't chu?

((OOC: I would love to see Matilda over at digital_dive. Check it out and let me know what you think.))

:D thank you

[revolter]

And degrading to the author and the novel. It's Henry James, he's so wonderful. I can't see why she'd do that.

I am looking over there rn :D

[revolter]

It's cheating, she has to read the book.

[revolter]

I like to skip ripe. My friend Lavender taught me.

will do!

[revolter]

More than anything. Books help me imagine I'm somewhere else.

[secondguessing]

Exactly. The time it takes to read it is more than made up for by what you get in return. The joy of it, the - well, you grow from it.

[ He should shut up. ]

[revolter]

[ smiling, less shyly and nodding. ]

She read the SparkNote to Moby Dick. It was terrible.

[secondguessing]

[ He . . . covers his eyes, this is painful. ]

Well. Perhaps you'll be a good influence.

[revolter]

..I hope so. She learns English Literature, there's still hope.

^^

[giveadragonsomelove]

Somewhere else? Why? Is it boring where you live or something?

[revolter]

...Sort of.

[ she won't talk about her family, but. ]

[giveadragonsomelove]

I feel you. I'm from the NYC, so reading is kind of a for school only thing for me.