Bibliomusings: Book Around the States

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Book Around the States

Here is where I will update my progress on the ongoing, perpetual Book Around the States Challenge.

25 to go!!

Alabama:

Alaska: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Arizona: The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

Arkansas:

California: I Am Legend by Richard Matthieson

Colorado: Jay's Journal by Beatrice Sparks

Connecticut: Fablehaven by Brandon Mull

Delaware:

Florida: Duma Key by Stephen King

Georgia: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Hawaii:

Idaho:

Illinois: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Indiana:

Iowa: Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee

Kansas:

Kentucky: The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

Louisiana: Meely LaBauve by Ken Willis

Maine: Lisey's Story by Stephen King

Maryland:

Massachussetts: Cell by Stephen King

Michigan: Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides

Minnesota: Abarat by Clive Barker

Mississippi: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Missouri:

Montana:

Nebraska:

Nevada: Glass by Ellen Hopkins

New Hampshire:

New Jersey: Tithe: A Modern Tale of Faerie by Holly Black

New Mexico: On the Road by Jack Kerouac

New York: The Stone War by Madeline Robbins

North Carolina:

North Dakota:

Ohio: Beloved by Toni Morrison

Oklahoma: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Oregon:

Pennsylvania: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Rhode Island:

South Carolina:

South Dakota:

Tennessee:

Texas: No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Utah:

Vermont: Armageddon Summer by Jane Yolen

Virginia:

Washington:

West Virginia:

Wisconsin:

Wyoming:

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Great Quotes

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." (Atticus, To Kill a Mockingbird; Harper Lee)

"But maybe the last part of the symphony was the music she loved the best--glad and like the greatest people in the world running and springing up in a hard, free way. Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen." (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers)

"Dark of the invisible moon. The nights now only slightly less black. By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp." (The Road; Cormac McCarthy)

"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Douglas Adams)

"I ought not to have listened to her," he confided to me one day. "One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace. This tale of claws, which disturbed me so much, should only have filled my heart with tenderness and pity."

And he continued his confidences: "The fact is that I did not know how to understand anything! I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words. She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little strategems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her..." (The Little Prince; Anton de Saint-Exupery)

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. (Betting on the Muse; Charles Bukowski)

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. (Tom Robbins)

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. (The Prophet; Kahlil Gibran)

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. (C.S. Lewis)

"For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and of valor. Of the endless fluid passage of humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who--one word--love." (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers)