Brilliantology

Swan is a mid-20s Brit in the south west of England. She does stuff like Tumbledog and Cakeology, and collects bits of nerdery here.

twitter.com/brilliantology:

    What are you reading?

    peterwknox:

    Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by JSF

    Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

    — 1 year ago with 148 notes

    #survey  #books 
    1. ohhello reblogged this from tmblg and added:
      Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    2. jakemadison reblogged this from elainecorden and added:
      Ha, Gravity’s Rainbow was actually...a friend’s backing were what convinced me
    3. sarabean reblogged this from new-ditty and added:
      Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
    4. bicknellhill reblogged this from barelysarcasm and added:
      Tortilla Flat, and This Side of Paradise…Vacation books I didn’t finish and got at a used book store in Lorne OZ… Also...
    5. grimmertown reblogged this from towerofsleep and added:
      Rip It Up And Start Again
    6. hobohappenings reblogged this from barelysarcasm and added:
      The Eyes of Darkness by Dean Koontz.
    7. towerofsleep reblogged this from standardgrey and added:
      Critical Practice, by Catherine Belsey (2nd edition), from...indispensable Routledge New...
    8. standardgrey reblogged this from blownspeakers and added:
      cut the reposts, it looks like crap. Just Finished:...Aaron Peck. Local talent,good...
    9. robotindisguise reblogged this from blownspeakers and added:
      Archies Double Digest Vol. 43.
    10. blownspeakers reblogged this from neilhillbrandt and added:
      Chronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan and The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy in
    11. neilhillbrandt reblogged this from jakemadison and added:
      Battle Royale, it is waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy
    12. elainecorden reblogged this from suckingface and added:
      abandoned. In fact,...have never met anyone in my life who has
    13. suckingface reblogged this from elainecorden and added:
      I’m way behind on...of these but: Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
    14. elainecorden reblogged this from jakemadison and added:
      Dude - is the Crying...not the hardest book to read in one , or even several sittings? It...
    15. emmalioness reblogged this from rhumsodomylash and added:
      “No one belongs here more than you”-MIranda July
    16. whatacheat reblogged this from tmblg and added:
      Fight Club, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Othello
    17. adamhrabik reblogged this from kevinslane and added:
      Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
    18. pirata reblogged this from cameronchristopher and added:
      Eldest by Christopher Paolini (almost done. shes a beast tho! 668 pages!) the World Through a Plastic Lens by the good...
    19. laureng reblogged this from jesstobrazil and added:
      “Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture” by Leslie Simon and Trevor Kelley
    20. carekoba reblogged this from wearetheweirdos and added:
      “Son of a Witch” - Gregory Maguire (r.a.! i’ll return “Blindness” within the month!)
    21. kevinslane reblogged this from mattgorman and added:
      Native Son by Richard Wright
    22. lamerveilleuse reblogged this from jakemadison and added:
      Kafka on the Shore, Towards a Poor Theatre, The Apprenticeship...Duddy Kravitz, One Man’s...
    23. zavalamariana reblogged this from roberto and added:
      The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, by Laurie King Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll Pet Sematary, by Stephen...
    24. jakemadison reblogged this from maegandawn and added:
      on: crying of lot 49 - pynchon; better than sex - H.S.T.; people’s...world - harman;...
    25. maegandawn reblogged this from skinnyghost and added:
      underworld by don delillo, guns, germs, and steel...short history of progress by ronald...
    26. mattgorman reblogged this from thomasmurray and added:
      Bowl of Cherries by Millard Kaufman
    27. thelittlemermaid reblogged this from booksarebetterthanboys and added:
      annicka:redorangeorangeonred:cmpblldllghn:tmblg:markn:shebs:peterwknox: jaimeleighfairbrother:betweennowandforever)...
    28. booksarebetterthanboys reblogged this from anniehinton and added:
      love Raymond Carver; hope you’re enjoying it....reading Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing
    29. angstinmypants reblogged this from thepoliticalpartygirl and added:
      The Secret History by Donna Tartt, which: gripping and amazing and un-put-downable
    30. seasonschild reblogged this from exoticquixotic and added:
      No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
    31. evrt reblogged this from tmblg and added:
      “Three Cups of Tea” by David Oliver Relin Link
    32. exoticquixotic reblogged this from catherine-eliza and added:
      War & Peace- Leo Tolstoy
    33. roberto reblogged this from mikerapin and added:
      “El Burlador de Sevilla” by Tirso de Molina
    34. sortofkinda reblogged this from noahkai and added:
      Incendiary by Chris Cleave
    35. ramblinginsomniac reblogged this from rhumsodomylash and added:
      A couple… Macbeth by…well, c’mon. You know. Paper Towns by John Green. Redemption Song: Ballad of Joe Strummer by Chris...
    36. sarahmonster reblogged this from rhumsodomylash and added:
      The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
    37. hunterhunted reblogged this from tmblg and added:
      The Known World by Edward P. Jones
    38. cameronchristopher reblogged this from wearetheweirdos and added:
      Dress your family in corduroy and denim - David Sedaris and re reading Extremely Loud & Ingredibly Close by Jonathan...
    39. jpmoore reblogged this from krisnolte and added:
      “Mysteries of Pittsburgh” by Michael Chabon and “White House Ghosts: Presidents and their Speechwriters” by Robert...
    40. catherine-eliza reblogged this from anniehinton and added:
      The Pillars of the Earth by Kenneth Follet
    41. jasonflowers reblogged this from tmblg and added:
      Pure Drivel - Steve Martin
    42. purple-prose reblogged this from tmblg and added:
      The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe
    43. e2li3 reblogged this from cmpblldllghn and added:
      Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges, Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes, and, uh see below:
    44. anniehinton reblogged this from annicka and added:
      Where I’m Calling From by Raymond Carver
    45. annicka reblogged this from redorangeorangeonred and added:
      The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
    46. skinnyghost reblogged this from tmblg and added:
      Almost done Underworld. Don DeLillo. It is not about Kate Beckinsale’s ass, as I was led to believe. Good, though....
    47. redorangeorangeonred reblogged this from cmpblldllghn and added:
      The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power by Jonathan Mahler
    48. rhumsodomylash reblogged this from krisnolte and added:
      “Mr. Nice” by Howard Marks
    49. krisnolte reblogged this from tmblg and added:
      “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America” by Daniel Boorstin and “The Trial” by Franz K.
    50. cmpblldllghn reblogged this from tmblg and added:
      Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
    51. thomasav reblogged this from mikerapin and added:
      “In Defense of Food” by Michael Pollan
    52. mikerapin reblogged this from tmblg and added:
      “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll
    53. tmblg reblogged this from markn and added:
      “Stumbling On Happiness” by Dan Gilbert. Link
    54. guinnevere reblogged this from dogganghappened and added:
      The reincarnationist
    55. emilyinternet reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
      garlic and sapphires for my bookclub, what is the what for myself, the latest issue of the new yorker. (i like to keep a...
    56. xautumncyanidex reblogged this from youhadmeathello and added:
      House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
    57. moamy reblogged this from minou and added:
      I’ve just started An Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. A male friend gave it to me because he’s testing his...
    58. thomasmurray reblogged this from danieleric and added:
      The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
    59. lawful reblogged this from kateskute and added:
      Just picked up a copy of Cat’s Cradle, so I think I’ll start that.
    60. halflife reblogged this from notentirely and added:
      Silent Spring, Rachel Carson. In times of confusion and hesitation it is always wise to return to the basics.
    61. danieleric reblogged this from menstrom and added:
      The Areas Of My Expertise by John Hodgeman
    62. thismightsuck reblogged this from wearetheweirdos and added:
      usually never reblog these things… but… just finished twilight last week (i know i know! i used to hate those girls...
    63. youhadmeathello reblogged this from emilybusiness and added:
      The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
    64. thetrapezeact reblogged this from prideofboston and added:
      Just got done with The Diving Bell And The Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby. Still in awe with how the book was...
    65. socontroversial reblogged this from wearetheweirdos and added:
      a great and terrible beauty - libba bray
    66. chapter13 reblogged this from dogganghappened and added:
      We the Living - Ayn Rand
    67. dogganghappened reblogged this from prideofboston and added:
      god-shaped hole, high fidelity, downtown owl, and me talk pretty one day
    68. mrgaddess reblogged this from sketchy and added:
      Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer well…I will be soon anyways
    69. new-ditty reblogged this from wearetheweirdos and added:
      The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel
    70. wearetheweirdos reblogged this from justinjustin and added:
      Inivisible Monster by Chuck Palahniuk The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
    71. kbkarma reblogged this from brilliantology and added:
      Lois McMaster Bujold.
    72. corygrimes reblogged this from bringtheruckuss and added:
      Reading two books at the moment. First is Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing by Benjamin Nugget. Second is the Bell Jar...
    73. amandadaugherty reblogged this from derbygirl and added:
      The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollen
    74. baseballgrl227 reblogged this from bricorama and added:
      Ball Four by Jim Bouton
    75. blerg reblogged this from leeshiebean and added:
      Quitting the Nairobi Trio by Jim Knipfel
    76. thecomplete180 reblogged this from johncody and added:
      Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix and Darcy’s Story by Janet Aylmer
    77. goosebumpmusic reblogged this from thepoliticalpartygirl and added:
      Mearsheimer and Walt - The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
    78. justinjustin reblogged this from kateskute and added:
      Dead Until Dark: Charlaine Harris
    79. kateskute reblogged this from peterwknox
    80. mercurypdx reblogged this from betweennowandforever and added:
      One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
    81. leeshiebean reblogged this from kat52982 and added:
      I just started Failure is Not an Option by Gene Kranz, and I just finished Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella.
    82. yellowhat reblogged this from isopod and added:
      I’m about to start Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind (got it for free today on a book trade-in! Woot!). I’ve been...
    83. monsterxero reblogged this from bringtheruckuss and added:
      American Gods - Neil Gaiman
    84. bringtheruckuss reblogged this from thedelegate and added:
      the bible. you should all be ashamed.
    85. notentirely reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
      me: ideas: a history of thought and invention by watson, the story of sushi by corson, the omnivore’s dilemma by polson...
    86. katertaters reblogged this from randomnessnstuff and added:
      Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
    87. derbygirl reblogged this from kat52982 and added:
      Paper Towns by John Green
    88. thenewrapunzel reblogged this from prideofboston and added:
      Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte & Middlemarch by George Eliot
    89. dietjay reblogged this from brilliantology and added:
      Rebel Without A Crew by Robert Rodriguez
    90. thepoliticalpartygirl reblogged this from kat52982 and added:
      Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
    91. inyourcar reblogged this from jordantumbles and added:
      Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen :)
    92. prideofboston reblogged this from jordantumbles and added:
      My View From The Corner by Burt Sugar and Angelo Dundee
    93. kat52982 reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
      The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
    94. jordantumbles reblogged this from isopod and added:
      Stephen Covey “The Eight Habit”
    95. minou reblogged this from sistermarymartha and added:
      Paul Auster In the Country of Last Things (And I got both 2666 and Infinite Jest for Christmas, so I’m not really making...
    96. brettlacy reblogged this from catbus and added:
      The Post American World by Fareed Zakaria
    97. isopod reblogged this from hikergirl and added:
      Never! I like Harry Potter too. And It Was Good: Reflections on Beginnings by Madeleine L’Engle
    98. brilliantology reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
      Perdido Street Station
    99. outtheother reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
      Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is one of my favorite, favorite books. Enjoy. I’m reading Revolutionary Road, along...
    100. adeandabet reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
      Bel Canto by Anne Pachette
    101. heymissy reblogged this from antitrance and added:
      New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
    102. betweennowandforever posted this