YES. I’m tired of all of you pretentious assholes saying that I’m not “really reading” because I use a kindle.
Yes, you are reading.You are just reading a “lesser” form of book. Reading isn’t just reading the words on a page/screen, it’s smelling the book, new or old, it’s wearing the books spine out after rereading it for the X’th time, it’s leaving crease marks on a page you flipped too fast because you were that eager to get to the next page, and most of all, it’s losing yourself in a book to the point where the world around you no longer exists. And I, for one, cannot lose myself in an electronic screen. The words of a real book take on a depth that cannot ever be recreated on anything electronic. So you may be reading a book, but you will never truly experience a book unless you read it in a printed medium.
its absurd how over yourself you should get
I dunno about you but I can’t read a book unless it’s hand-transcribed by monks
gotta agree with patrick here :\ need to watch the monks transcribe it too, just to ensure it’s authenticity
Transcribed by monks? Talk about a lesser form of reading. I won’t read anything unless I’ve watched as it was carefully chiseled into stone tablets.
As long as the ink in my books is made of kangaroo blood.
(Fuente: piratesswoop)
pumpkinpasties-and-jammiedodgers:
Multi-awarded actress Maggie Smith was halfway through her cancer treatment when she made Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, starring as Professor Minerva McGonagall.
“I was hairless. I had no problem getting the wig on. I was like a boiled egg,” she said.
The chemotherapy was, she said, “something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself”. “You feel horribly sick. I was holding on to railings, thinking ‘I can’t do this’,” she said.
But she insisted she will “stagger through” the final Harry Potter film, The Deathly Hallows. Let’s just pause and ponder on how awesome this woman is, a true Gryffindor.
I will never not reblog this. This woman is my hero. I’ve seen what my mom went through with chemo. To go through it and still put on such a moving performance is something she should be very proud of.
So much love and respect for this woman <3 :)
I absolutely adore Dame Maggie Smith to the point of getting kind of really emotional about it.
“I hate it when they say, He gave his life for his country. Nobody gives their life for anything. We steal the lives of these kids. We take it away from them. They don’t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.”
— U.S Navy Admiral Gene LaRocque
(Fuente: proactivism)
