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Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each re...more

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Well, while you were in the bathroom, I sat down at this picnic table here in Bumblefug, Kentucky, and noticed that someone had carved that GOD HATES ...more

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I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable."Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a re...more

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Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together."What?"Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud."That's who you really like. The people y...more

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I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

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You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about president...more

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He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon strings seeme...more

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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

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He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him.

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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.

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We fatties have a bond, dude. It's like a secret society. We got all kinds of shit you don't know about. Handshakes, special fat people dances-we got ...more

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JP shouted, "TELL THEM WHAT YOU JUST DID TO EACH OTHER!""Um," I said."We kissed," the Duke said."That's kinda gay," Keun said."I AM A GIRL.""Yeah, I k...more

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Sorry," I said to the Duke."Eh, it's not your fault. It's Carla's fault. You were turning the wheel. Carla just wasn't listening. I knew I shouldn't h...more

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The prank is entitled "Subverting the Patriarchal Paradigm".

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... going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.