Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via libranta)

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Another Wednesday, another Road Trip! To answer this week’s, respond to this post or answer on your own blog and leave the link in comments at our post. Then you can see how everyone else answered!

This week we want to know: What’s a book you’ve always wanted to read, but haven’t gotten to yet?

Time for a Road Trip! To answer this week’s, respond to this post or answer on your own blog and leave the link in comments at our post. Then you can see how everyone else answered!

This week we want to know: What was the best book you read in April?

What I feel so strongly in talking to people about movies, frequently people will - they know I’m a movie critic - they will discuss the subject matter as if that is what the film is about. Oh, it’s a film about boxing. Or, oh, it’s a film about gangsters. Or whatever. … A film is not about its subject. It’s about how its about its subject. A subject is neutral. People don’t understand that. When people say, whenever anybody makes a statement, I don’t like to go to movies about and then fill in the blank, my response is, anyone who makes that statement is an idiot.

— Roger Ebert, in a 1997 interview with Martin Scorsese at Ohio State University (from NPR’s Fresh Air)

He was talking about movies, but it’s a good thing to keep in mind when discussing books as well. Genre is a marketing tool, not a qualitative measure.

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