Looking For Alaska.
Despite being classified as a “young adult novel”, this book changed my perspective on life. Definitley a must-read.
I'm Katelyn-Marie, I'm twenty one. I'm currently studying forensic psychiatry at the University of Toronto. I just use this for inspiration and to document lovely things I stumble upon.
Things: 1940s, airports, Al Fresco dining, amusement parks, anatomy, Anthropologie, art history, ballet, ballpoint pens, biking, boys in cardigans, breakfast for dinner, cafe americano, car rides with the windows down and music blaring, chandeliers, cinematography, coffee table books, colored lights, Daisy by Marc Jacobs, drawing, dresses, ferris wheels, fill-in-the-blank journals, film photography, flea markets, flying alone, good food, good music, good storytellers, interior design, kitsch & knick-knacks, laying in bed with my window open, literature, Lola by Marc Jacobs, matcha tea, moleskin notebooks, Nouvelle Vague, painting, pale ale, poetry & prose, quote books, screwball comedies, skating, snow, spooning, radical thinkers, riding the subway, roller coasters, Urban Outfitters, vintage things, vinyl records, wit.
Music: Air, Alela Diane, Animal Collective, The Arcade Fire, Babyshambles, Bat For Lashes, Beach House, The Beatles, Boards of Canada, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bon Iver, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Bridget St. John, Chairlift, Dandy Warhols, David Bowie, Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Deer Tick, Devandra Banhart, Discovery, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, The Hollies, Iggy & the Stooges, Jenny Lewis, Jesus & Mary Chain, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Leonard Cohen, The Libertines, Lightning Dust, Lou Reed, Magnetic Fields, Marianne Faithfull, Marissa Nadler, Misfits, Morrissey, My Bloody Valentine, Nancy Sinatra, Neil Young, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nico, Operation Ivy, Pink Floyd, The Plastic People of the Universe, Ra Ra Riot, Radiohead, Simon & Garfunkel, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Smiths, Talking Heads, Tame Impala, Vampire Weekend, Vashti Bunyan, The Velvet Underground, The Vogues, Yo La Tengo, The Zombies.
Films: 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2 ou 3 Choses Que Je Sais D'elle, (500) Days of Summer, L'Advventura, Alphaville, American Psycho, Annie Hall, Au Hasard Balthazar, Bande a Part, Billy Liar, The Birds, Bonnie and Clyde, Boys Don't Cry, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Bridge, Broken Flowers, The Brown Bunny, Casablanca, Children of Paradise, Citizen Kane, Coffee and Cigarettes, Contempt, The Corporation, The Darjeeling Limited, Dogville, Donnie Darko, Dr. Strangelove, The Graduate, Gummo, Harold and Maude, The Hours, How To Steal A Million, I'm Not There, Kids, Made in USA, Masculin Feminin, Me And You and Everyone We Know, Le Mépris, Le Monde de Silence, Mr. Freedom, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Let The Right One In, A Life Aquatic, Lost In Translation, Pandora's Box, Party Monster, Persona, Pierrot le Fou, Prozac Nation, Psycho, Pulp Fiction, Que Bonito Es Un Entierro, Rear Window, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Sabrina, The Science of Sleep, The Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, Sympathy For The Devil, Two For The Road, Une Femme Est Une Femme, The United States of Leland, Up In The Air, Vivre Sa Vie, Withnail & I.
Novels: 1984, Animal Farm, Anna Karenina, As I Lay Dying, The Bell Jar, Bhagavad Gita, Big Sur, The Botany of Desire, Brave New World, The Brothers Karamazov, Catch 22, The Catcher in the Rye, A Clockwork Orange, A Coney Island of the Mind, Crime and Punishment, East of Eden, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, A Farewell to Arms, Fight Club, The Grapes of Wrath, Gravity's Rainbow, The Great Gatsby, Hamlet, The Importance of Being Earnest, Into The Wild, Johnny Panic & the Bible of Dreams, Lolita, Looking For Alaska, The Master and the Margarita, Mexico City Blues, Mrs. Dalloway, No Exit, No Logo, Of Mice and Men, Oedipus Rex, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, On The Road, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Reality Sandwiches, A Room of One's Own, Siddartha, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Sorrows of a Young Werther, Steppenwolf, The Sun Also Rises, Reality Sandwiches, To the Lighthouse, Uddhava Ghita, Ulysses, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Walden, War and Peace.
Things: 1940s, airports, Al Fresco dining, amusement parks, anatomy, Anthropologie, art history, ballet, ballpoint pens, biking, boys in cardigans, breakfast for dinner, cafe americano, car rides with the windows down and music blaring, chandeliers, cinematography, coffee table books, colored lights, Daisy by Marc Jacobs, drawing, dresses, ferris wheels, fill-in-the-blank journals, film photography, flea markets, flying alone, good food, good music, good storytellers, interior design, kitsch & knick-knacks, laying in bed with my window open, literature, Lola by Marc Jacobs, matcha tea, moleskin notebooks, Nouvelle Vague, painting, pale ale, poetry & prose, quote books, screwball comedies, skating, snow, spooning, radical thinkers, riding the subway, roller coasters, Urban Outfitters, vintage things, vinyl records, wit.
Music: Air, Alela Diane, Animal Collective, The Arcade Fire, Babyshambles, Bat For Lashes, Beach House, The Beatles, Boards of Canada, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bon Iver, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Bridget St. John, Chairlift, Dandy Warhols, David Bowie, Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Deer Tick, Devandra Banhart, Discovery, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, The Hollies, Iggy & the Stooges, Jenny Lewis, Jesus & Mary Chain, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Leonard Cohen, The Libertines, Lightning Dust, Lou Reed, Magnetic Fields, Marianne Faithfull, Marissa Nadler, Misfits, Morrissey, My Bloody Valentine, Nancy Sinatra, Neil Young, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nico, Operation Ivy, Pink Floyd, The Plastic People of the Universe, Ra Ra Riot, Radiohead, Simon & Garfunkel, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Smiths, Talking Heads, Tame Impala, Vampire Weekend, Vashti Bunyan, The Velvet Underground, The Vogues, Yo La Tengo, The Zombies.
Films: 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2 ou 3 Choses Que Je Sais D'elle, (500) Days of Summer, L'Advventura, Alphaville, American Psycho, Annie Hall, Au Hasard Balthazar, Bande a Part, Billy Liar, The Birds, Bonnie and Clyde, Boys Don't Cry, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Bridge, Broken Flowers, The Brown Bunny, Casablanca, Children of Paradise, Citizen Kane, Coffee and Cigarettes, Contempt, The Corporation, The Darjeeling Limited, Dogville, Donnie Darko, Dr. Strangelove, The Graduate, Gummo, Harold and Maude, The Hours, How To Steal A Million, I'm Not There, Kids, Made in USA, Masculin Feminin, Me And You and Everyone We Know, Le Mépris, Le Monde de Silence, Mr. Freedom, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Let The Right One In, A Life Aquatic, Lost In Translation, Pandora's Box, Party Monster, Persona, Pierrot le Fou, Prozac Nation, Psycho, Pulp Fiction, Que Bonito Es Un Entierro, Rear Window, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Sabrina, The Science of Sleep, The Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, Sympathy For The Devil, Two For The Road, Une Femme Est Une Femme, The United States of Leland, Up In The Air, Vivre Sa Vie, Withnail & I.
Novels: 1984, Animal Farm, Anna Karenina, As I Lay Dying, The Bell Jar, Bhagavad Gita, Big Sur, The Botany of Desire, Brave New World, The Brothers Karamazov, Catch 22, The Catcher in the Rye, A Clockwork Orange, A Coney Island of the Mind, Crime and Punishment, East of Eden, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, A Farewell to Arms, Fight Club, The Grapes of Wrath, Gravity's Rainbow, The Great Gatsby, Hamlet, The Importance of Being Earnest, Into The Wild, Johnny Panic & the Bible of Dreams, Lolita, Looking For Alaska, The Master and the Margarita, Mexico City Blues, Mrs. Dalloway, No Exit, No Logo, Of Mice and Men, Oedipus Rex, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, On The Road, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Reality Sandwiches, A Room of One's Own, Siddartha, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Sorrows of a Young Werther, Steppenwolf, The Sun Also Rises, Reality Sandwiches, To the Lighthouse, Uddhava Ghita, Ulysses, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Walden, War and Peace.
