Ellie ~Live Life Anchored
Hey guys! Welcome to my little bubble in the wonderful world of Shelfari. Pop on in, sit down, have a cup of tea, chat about good books and interesting characters. I guess I should tell you a bit about myself. You wouldn't want to be in some stranger's bubble. Here are the basics: My name is Ellie, I am a Christian teenager trying to live life...
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Hey guys! Welcome to my little bubble in the wonderful world of Shelfari. Pop on in, sit down, have a cup of tea, chat about good books and interesting characters. I guess I should tell you a bit about myself. You wouldn't want to be in some stranger's bubble. Here are the basics: My name is Ellie, I am a Christian teenager trying to live life anchored. That's my motto; "Live Life Anchored." I believe in the importance of dreams, in the stars and the moon, and late nights and putting yourself out there, but I also believe in the power of family, friends, love, hard work, and terra firma. We have to live our lives - not just let them pass by us - but we have to be anchored and strong in who we are first.
Now, first and foremost, Shelfari is a place to gather with other bookworms, book loves, book-OMG-IT-WAS-SO-GOOD-obsessers, so I will tell you some of my favorite books. I will literally read ANYTHING you put in front of me, but, like all humans, I have preferences. I love anything by John Greene, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, Chop-Chop, The Iron Fey series, What Happened To Goodbye, You Don't Know Me, and the entire Jessica Darling series. I also love classics, such as The Great Gatsby, Ethan Frome, Little Women, or Anne of Green Gables. My absolute favorite books of all time are the Chaos Walking trilogy. Those are my OMG-THEY-WERE-SO-GOOD books, the books that are so completely mine, it almost hurts to recommend them to you.
Shelfari is also for making new friends and exploring groups. I'm always open to invitations for groups. Plus, I LOVE to write :D I want to be a published author when I grow up...it is my hope and my dream.
Music is a big part of my life. Not only do I love to make music (I sing and dabble in instruments from time to time) I also listen to it all the time. You know that great "get to know you" question asking what one item you would bring with you on a deserted island? Yeah...(other than my favorite books) that one item would be my iPod. It's chock-full with all my songs, because each song contains a memory. I can't pick a favorite artist or band, although I love Nevershoutnever, Snow Patrol, Krystal Meyers, M83, Sons of Sylvia, Matchbox Twenty, Third Eye Blind, Taylor Swift, Relient K, Sleeping with Sirens, Britt Nicole, Hillsong United, Switchfoot, MercyMe, U2, MUTEMATH, All American Rejects, Toad the Wet Sprocket, The Beatles, Katy Perry, Avril Lavigne, Jars of Clay, Dave Matthews Band, Glee covers, Tracy Chapman, Lissie, Lifehouse, Phil Collins, Johnny Cash, Cady Groves, Tears for Fears, any Disney song, Cracker, Colton Dixon, fun., Needtobreathe, Ellie Goulding, Imagine Dragons...the list goes on.
So, I don't know what you're doing here in my little bubble of Shelfari! Thanks for stopping by, but now it's time to go out and explore - go join a group, discover some new music, read a great book, fall in love with a character. But also, live your life - dream big, work hard.
Love you all.
Live Life Anchored.
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Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilightseries.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes. « less
Now, first and foremost, Shelfari is a place to gather with other bookworms, book loves, book-OMG-IT-WAS-SO-GOOD-obsessers, so I will tell you some of my favorite books. I will literally read ANYTHING you put in front of me, but, like all humans, I have preferences. I love anything by John Greene, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, Chop-Chop, The Iron Fey series, What Happened To Goodbye, You Don't Know Me, and the entire Jessica Darling series. I also love classics, such as The Great Gatsby, Ethan Frome, Little Women, or Anne of Green Gables. My absolute favorite books of all time are the Chaos Walking trilogy. Those are my OMG-THEY-WERE-SO-GOOD books, the books that are so completely mine, it almost hurts to recommend them to you.
Shelfari is also for making new friends and exploring groups. I'm always open to invitations for groups. Plus, I LOVE to write :D I want to be a published author when I grow up...it is my hope and my dream.
Music is a big part of my life. Not only do I love to make music (I sing and dabble in instruments from time to time) I also listen to it all the time. You know that great "get to know you" question asking what one item you would bring with you on a deserted island? Yeah...(other than my favorite books) that one item would be my iPod. It's chock-full with all my songs, because each song contains a memory. I can't pick a favorite artist or band, although I love Nevershoutnever, Snow Patrol, Krystal Meyers, M83, Sons of Sylvia, Matchbox Twenty, Third Eye Blind, Taylor Swift, Relient K, Sleeping with Sirens, Britt Nicole, Hillsong United, Switchfoot, MercyMe, U2, MUTEMATH, All American Rejects, Toad the Wet Sprocket, The Beatles, Katy Perry, Avril Lavigne, Jars of Clay, Dave Matthews Band, Glee covers, Tracy Chapman, Lissie, Lifehouse, Phil Collins, Johnny Cash, Cady Groves, Tears for Fears, any Disney song, Cracker, Colton Dixon, fun., Needtobreathe, Ellie Goulding, Imagine Dragons...the list goes on.
So, I don't know what you're doing here in my little bubble of Shelfari! Thanks for stopping by, but now it's time to go out and explore - go join a group, discover some new music, read a great book, fall in love with a character. But also, live your life - dream big, work hard.
Love you all.
Live Life Anchored.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilightseries.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes. « less
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