May 2012
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April 2012
7 posts
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“By now, my stomach is a roiling hell broth of suppressed frustration, nervous...”
– Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential
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March 2012
9 posts
Cotton G&T
shitmystudentswrite:
The Cotton Gin refers to the alcohol consumed by those working on cotton farms.
Fantastic.
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“Inside him, memories that had been handed down from antiquity began to stir....”
– 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
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February 2012
5 posts
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“London is like an addiction, really. You get 5 percent entertainment out of it,...”
– Londoners, Craig Taylor
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
1 post
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“The only definition of a Londoner I followed was the people you see around you....”
– Londoners - Craig Taylor
November 2011
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October 2011
2 posts
“I straightened up and looked out of the window at the dark clouds hanging over...”
– Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood
June 2011
2 posts
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May 2011
5 posts
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“Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of...”
– Under The Tuscan Sun - Frances Mayes
“The waterfall of problems with Benito, the financial worries, the language...”
– Under the Tuscan Sun - Frances Mayes
(SO much better than the patronising movie makes this wonderful book out to be.)
“Nowhere was the airport’s charm more concentrated than on the screens...”
– Alain De Botton, A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary
April 2011
2 posts
“It’s funny now recalling the way it was at the beginning, because when I...”
– Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
March 2011
3 posts
February 2011
5 posts
“… helping ourselves to wine from the grass-covered gallon flask; it swung...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms
“Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books.”
– The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
