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May 19

On this day in 1536, Anne Boleyn was led to the Tower Green and beheaded. Read more in BRING UP THE BODIES.

On this day in 1536, Anne Boleyn was led to the Tower Green and beheaded. Read more in BRING UP THE BODIES.

May 17

Bookmarked: Pages Being Shared in the Picador OfficeElizabeth gives you literary Legos! (Spoiler alert: They are super awesome times the biggest number ever.) While enjoying her staycation, Gabrielle came across a mashup of Daft Punk’s new single, “Get Lucky,” and Soul Train. It speaks for itself. Daniel enjoyed Bret Easton Ellis’ AMA on Reddit, and finally got around to Steven Soderbergh’s takedown of the current state of filmmaking in his keynote at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

Bookmarked: Pages Being Shared in the Picador Office

Elizabeth gives you literary Legos! (Spoiler alert: They are super awesome times the biggest number ever.) 

While enjoying her staycation, Gabrielle came across a mashup of Daft Punk’s new single, “Get Lucky,” and Soul Train. It speaks for itself. 

Daniel enjoyed Bret Easton Ellis’ AMA on Reddit, and finally got around to Steven Soderbergh’s takedown of the current state of filmmaking in his keynote at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

Sold!(For more vintage school library posters from the 1960’s courtesy of BuzzFeed, click here.)

Sold!

(For more vintage school library posters from the 1960’s courtesy of BuzzFeed, click here.)

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For a larger image of Pop Chart Lab’s creation, click here.[via: Laughing Squid]

For a larger image of Pop Chart Lab’s creation, click here.

[via: Laughing Squid]

May 16

“I’d like to be at home, in my apartment by the sea in Devon, just a few yards from the waves, sitting in the sunshine by a window, smiling, and picking up some vast immersive novel.”  —Hilary Mantel on her ideal reading experience in her fantastic New York Times By the Book interview. 

“I’d like to be at home, in my apartment by the sea in Devon, just a few yards from the waves, sitting in the sunshine by a window, smiling, and picking up some vast immersive novel.” 

—Hilary Mantel on her ideal reading experience in her fantastic New York Times By the Book interview. 

Has your to-be-read pile grown out of control? There is a Japanese word for that![via: GalleyCat]

Has your to-be-read pile grown out of control? There is a Japanese word for that!

[via: GalleyCat]

“It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation…Full bellies breed gentle manners.” — Hilary Mantel, Bring up the Bodies

May 15

“She’d become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.” — Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

By the very talented Franco Matticchio.  

By the very talented Franco Matticchio.  

(via: Toad Hall Book Store)

(via: Toad Hall Book Store)

May 14

We’re having a Hilary Mantel e-Book sale! Read what the New York Review of Books called a “brilliant pastiche of Swift and Joyce.”

We’re having a Hilary Mantel e-Book sale! Read what the New York Review of Books called a “brilliant pastiche of Swift and Joyce.”

“Nobody ever achieved anything except in small steps, one after another.” — John-Paul Flintoff, How to Change the World

Pretty sure René Descartes would’ve agree.  (via: Book Riot)

Pretty sure René Descartes would’ve agree.  

(via: Book Riot)

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