Present Tense


The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
The Night Circus
The Hate U Give
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Red, White & Royal Blue (Red, White & Royal Blue, #1)
The Girl on the Train
Room
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
Project Hail Mary
The Last Thing He Told Me (Hannah Hall, #1)
Adrienne Rich
In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
Adrienne Rich

Patton Oswalt
I'm sitting at the bar, rearranging the order of my jokes. I'm under the delusion that I'm having bad shows because of some cosmic misalignment of words, phrases, and ideas. I may as well have cast runes into a spirit bowl, hoping that the collective heart of the audience would open to my necromantic call. Maybe that's how jugglers do it. Those guys never have shitty sets. ...more
Patton Oswalt, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland

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