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emilytea10:

seek-agreatperhaps:

invisiblecashews:

Actually,  the photographs are spaced ten years apart, not sixteen.

1912 to 1922.

The young, homeless (but no less dapper) wanderer shown in the first survived the sinking of the Titanic and swam to the shores of West Egg. There he built a life and a large, empty house, in an effort to win the heart of the wealthy, upper class woman he’d fallen in love with a decade earlier and had been separated from against his will.

He shed his earlier identity, and changed his name to reflect his new station. Jack was now known as Jay Gatzby, the eccentric millionaire who threw parties every night in the hopes that one day his love would show up and spin with him as they had long ago in the dance hall of the lower decks.

Ehr-Mah-Gehrd.

#and he still ends up dead floating in the water

Go to your room.

Gatsby headcanon accepted.

(Source: margaritka2005)

(Previously on Nora Procrastinates By Making Graphs)

Goodreads – the miraculous website that not only keeps track of all the books I read, but compiles them into bar graphs comparing what I read each year. After I finish a book, my second-favorite thing to do (the first, of course, being the shelving) is to watch that bar go up one book, and see if anything changes on the little pie chart of labels (see final graphic).

But the more books I added, and the more time I spent watching those little pie charts, the more they started to bother me.

For one thing, they measure by book, and not by page-count – a minor issue, until the 17-page prequel short carries as much weight as the 600+ page fantasy novel. For another, demographic labels such as “children” and “ya” are included in the mess of genre labels – madness, I say! Utter madness! And then there’s the fact that it counts each label separately. So Doctor Seuss’s Butter Battle Book (42), labeled “children,” “poetry,” and “scifi/speculative” gets three times as much pie-chart space as Wolf’s Head, Wolf’s Heart (754), labeled only “high fantasy.”

Really, is no one else bothered by this?

So, with my Mad MS Excel Skills (and a final project to procrastinate doing), I put together this crazy-ass graph! And my goodness, is it crazy. The data is divided into page numbers, ages, and six genre spaces (which can be either all the same, half-and-half, thirds, or any random combination that seems most appropriate, such as in the case of the romantic subplot) – see the bottom-left graphic. And then there’s a bunch of number-crunching. And then there are GRAPHS.

Bar graphs for the page counts of each age demographic, and then relatively-sized pie charts of all the genres within that age demographic! Ah, so beautiful. And one regular old genre graph, for posterity’s sake. Be still, my heart.

Anyway, yeah. This is what I do with my free time. Make graphs about books. And then present them on the internet! So here, internet. This is data for the first 43 books I read in 2013. ENJOY.

PS: Here’s my Goodreads profile! I write reviews about nearly every book I read. Friend me, or follow me, or whatever.

fuckyeahbookarts:

Tumnus’ Journal by Joshua Brunet

A handwritten memory journal belonging to Mr. Tumnus’ the faun, illustrating his encounters within the world of Narnia.

lavender-and-nightshade:

I wanted to share this with all of you . Today of all days, I visited the Library and found not one but two John Green books, inside one of these books (Will Grayson, Will Grayson) I found these lovely sticky note affirmations. it made my day and I will certainly be sending my own sticky note when I finish the book.