stop telling girls interested in lit that they need to read these great american classics by violent misogynists in order for their opinions to be valid or for their minds to be developed
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listen my man I don’t give a fuck about your opinions of my literary validity, I’m perfectly happy not reading books written by men masturbating to violence against women and their own self imposed exile to prove that they’re more complex than thou through some jerk off journey to find themselves
Yes this.
I’M ABOUT TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER, BOOK NERDS
Do you like books!?
OF COURSE YOU DO
Do you like reading books?
DUUUUUH!
Do you collect books and let them sit on your shelf!?
WHAT IS THIS!? AMATEUR hOUR? OF FUCKING COURSE!
Do you spend WAAAAAAY too much money on books even though they’re totally worth it but holy fucking shit fifteen dollars is the median and why is the world so effortlessly cruel?
Who’s got two thumbs and an empty wallet! Yes yes and yes!
WELL HAVE I GOT A SOLUTION FOR YOU
Thriftbooks is an amazing online site that sells used books! These books are, for the most part, in great condition. I’ve used this website for everything from textbooks to fiction to everything else in between! It has a wide selection with an even wider selection of options per book!
You want softcover? They’ve got it! Hardcover? Of course! Audio? Why not!
Hell! They even sell the books in other languages!
You might say to me, humanity, why are you telling us this? We already have barnes and noble!
Because, my poor, naive friend, thriftbooks sells the majority of it’s books for under four dollars.
That’s right. You heard me. Under. Four. Dollars.
And right now, they’re having a huge deal!
2 books for $7
3 books for $10
4 books for $12
But wait! There’s more!
If you leave a book in your cart for long enough, chances are you’ll be alerted when a seller nearby, for a cheaper price, has the same book! You’ll get it cheaper and faster, with less waste of paper and time!
And prices change! That book that would have cost you $3.79 one day might be $3.45 the next, and man oh man isn’t that the best thing to see when you check up on your cart.
So what are you waiting for, book lovers! Go! Go shop!
Go and rule the world!
Be the book lovers I know you can be!
DID I MENTION THAT THERE’S FREE SHIPPING OVER 10 DOLLARS
DID I MENTION THAT THERE’S ALSO A COUPON CODE YOU CAN USE FOR A LIMITED TIME
type in the word “welcome” when you get to checkout and you’ll get 15% off!
DID I ALSO MENTION THAT THERE ARE READING REWARDS
AND THAT EVER $50 YOU SPEND THEY GIVE YOU $5 BACK.
guys
five dollars
on this site
is a book
that is the cost of an entire book
you’re literally getting a free book
I NEED Y’ALL TO SEE THIS SIDE BY SIDE THOUGH
So to prove my very real point, I went to Barnes and Noble and picked out some of my favorites books that I already have on my shelves
(also, fyi, y’all should read these they’re bangin)
AND BECAUSE THE SHIPPING IS SO INSANE, IT WAS MEAN TO COME OUT TO $47.85 (and that’s at an online price, which discounts by a few dollars)
But with shipping, handling, and the extreme cost of books, my total came to this:
$72.30
Okay. Then I went onto thriftbooks and chose the same books in the same formats (hardcover, softcover, etc.)
Keep in mind that not all books are under $4 due to size, availability, how new they are to the world yada yadayada
But this was the final shopping cart.
Look.
Look at those lovely books.
My final check out price?
$21.86
AND THAT DOESN’T INCLUDE ANY OF THE AMAZING DISCOUNTS, DEALS, AND/OR PROMO CODES.
If you do the math, I saved $50.44.
And even if Barnes and Noble had given me that free shipping, I still would have saved $25.99. Do you know what that could buy you? That could buy you four more books on thriftbooks!
Thriftbooks fucking saved my broke college ass. And I’d encourage you all to use it if you can. Shipping may take 4-14 days, but I swear to god it’s worth every dollar that I would have burned.
THIS IS IN NO WAY AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO STOP SHOPPING AT BOOKSTORES. PLEASE DON’T. LOCAL BOOKSTORES ARE IMPORTANT AND VITAL AND SHOULD BE SUPPORTED!
I’m mostly making jabs at the big name companies, and honestly, my broke bookworm ass needs a break.
NOW YOU MAY ASK ME
HOW
HOW CAN IT GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS!?
It can’t. There’s no way!
WELL YES IT FUCKING CAN, BOOK NERDS!
Did you ever think to yourself; I love to read. But I sure wish there was a way to read my own books while I multi-task by helping the environment, the economy, and the seemingly never-ending and growing gap between low-income schools and libraries and their availability to reading material all at the same time…
Well, there is.
It’s called shopping at Thriftbooks
And what’s more:
Boom.
Right there.
This place is fucking amazing as hell and you should use it as often as you possibly can.
Save the environment. Keep your mind running. Shop Thriftbooks.
It’s like there are only ever two feelings when it comes to me reading books:
- I have so many books to read but I don’t know what I want to start next and nothing is really pulling me in?
- I HAVE SO MANY BOOKS AND I WANT TO READ THEM ALL NOW BUT THIS ONE IS SUCKING ME IN RIGHT NOW AND SO IS THAT OTHER ONE I ALREADY STARTED BUT THAT ONE SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING I NEED IN MY LIFE RIGHT NOW TOO??!!!
jake “i’ve read fifteen books” peralta revealing that he’s been reading the harry potter books because amy “fifty is not a lot. wait. did you say fifteen?” santiago loves them so much and them subsequently geeking out about it is the HEALTHIEST thing
I can’t believe Brooklyn 99 invented healthy relationships
Me: *former bookworm who hasn’t read more than one or two actual books in over a year*
Friend: Whatcha doin’?
Me: *unable to tear attention from particularly angsty fanfic* Nothing, just reading
Friend: Oh my god, how do you read all the time??! Is there anything you haven’t read?? I just can’t read! How many books did you read in the holidays??
Me: 😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫
Friend: Ten?? Twenty?!
Me: *after going home*
jane austen was so lit because she wrote about men the way men typically write about women i.e. her stories just centered around women and men were only there for the sake of women, and her books could have been all bitter and sad about the state of women in that century, but instead they’re sweet honest observational stories of friendship, family and love *sighs* what a lady i am sorry i ever doubted you cos I was bored in high school
jane austen was so lit because she wrote about men the way men typically write about women i.e. her stories just centered around women and men were only there for the sake of women, and her books could have been all bitter and sad about the state of women in that century, but instead they’re sweet honest observational stories of friendship, family and love *sighs* what a lady i am sorry i ever doubted you cos I was bored in high school
no seriously her books do not pass the REVERSE bechdel test and it’s perfect
Jane Austen never wrote a single scene without a woman present.
I…. Just realized this.
Awesomeness.
Seen in the stacks: more recent acquisitions of nineteenth-century children’s books! I couldn’t resist taking some photos of the most recent batch right on the cart as they came in to be processed. Many of these books were originally part of the College of Education’s juvenile reading collection. Some have been well loved, but they still boast colorful cloth bindings stamped in gilt, and the fact that they’ve been used means they have even more stories to tell.
Katya (you know her from her Caturday posts) is leading the effort to inventory these materials and add them to Special Collections. For more information, ask us here on Tumblr or on our website. You may see more of these books soon!
- Kelli
Summer Reading Tips
- Go from shortest to longest if you have multiple books.
- If you have multiple books, once you get through the first one, you will be more motivated.
- If you have to annotate and you aren’t in college/uni., take light annotations. You don’t have to go crazy with highlighters, just have a pen/pencil in hand and then just write things in.
- If you have to read older text like, Dickens, Sparknote the chapter before you read it, it will make more sense that way.
- If you have to write an essay, highlight important quotes, and a lot of your annotations should be reactions when it comes to characters.
- If you don’t understand the plot, just know the characters and their development.
- Refrain from reading more then one book a once.
- At my school, we all got to pick out of a selection of books and then we have to discuss it, but there are no reading quizzes, so there is no real way to assess if we read it or not. In this case I will read it, but do little to no annotations.
- It’s okay to take a break and read something else.
- Try not to make this last minute. give yourself at least a month.
Hope this helped!
