readhard:

We are back! Would you like to read with us again? Grab a copy of Dave Eggers’ “What Is The What” which we’ll read for the whole month of February. Yay!

I’m reviving the book club and you should participate! For the month of February, we’ll be reading Dave Eggers’ “What Is The What”! Go buy/borrow a copy now.

readhard:

We are back! Would you like to read with us again? Grab a copy of Dave Eggers’ “What Is The What” which we’ll read for the whole month of February. Yay!

I’m reviving the book club and you should participate! For the month of February, we’ll be reading Dave Eggers’ “What Is The What”! Go buy/borrow a copy now.

"I cannot count the times I have cursed our lack of urgency. If I ever love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love."

What is the What by Dave Eggers

(via thechocolatebrigade)

What I’m doing tonight.

What I’m doing tonight.

"I guess a book needs the time it needs. If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, it’s that. You have to wait for the fruit to fall from the tree."
I had an awesome time at the beach today!

I had an awesome time at the beach today!

Filed under: Things I Want To Steal.
Sacrament is the early version of You Shall Know Our Velocity! which also has the extra chapter from Hand’s perspective. This copy is signed too. Unfortunately, this isn’t mine.

Filed under: Things I Want To Steal.

Sacrament is the early version of You Shall Know Our Velocity! which also has the extra chapter from Hand’s perspective. This copy is signed too. Unfortunately, this isn’t mine.

From The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011

From The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011

Dave Eggers books at the West Hollywood Library.

Dave Eggers books at the West Hollywood Library.

Read this at the bookstore today. I didn’t bother correcting (e.g. The Beach Fossils = Beach Fossils) and retyped it as is.

Read this at the bookstore today. I didn’t bother correcting (e.g. The Beach Fossils = Beach Fossils) and retyped it as is.

"Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads?"
Dave Eggers, How We Are Hungry
"Because secrets do not increase in value if kept in a gore-ian lockbox, because one’s past is either made useful or else mutates and becomes cancerous. We share things for the obvious reasons: it makes us feel un-alone, it spreads the weight over a larger area, it holds the possibility of making our share lighter. And it can work either way - not simply as a pain-relief device, but, in the case of not bad news but good, as a share-the-happy-things-I’ve-seen/lessons-I’ve-learned vehicle. Or as a tool for simple connectivity for its own sake, a testing of waters, a stab at engagement with a mass of strangers."
Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
"Is it weird to have a president who knows science fiction? I just saw a speech John Hodgman gave in front of Obama, and there were all these Dune references, and seeing that Obama knew what he was talking about was just crazy."
Dave Eggers, in conversation with Junot Diaz in the Boston Review back in December.  (via fabula)
GPOYW Turning to my favorite book because real life is crappy at the moment and I need to distract myself.
Or, seriously, this book is freaking awesome.
(It’s “You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers.)

GPOYW Turning to my favorite book because real life is crappy at the moment and I need to distract myself.

Or, seriously, this book is freaking awesome.

(It’s “You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers.)