There is no self to be discovered, only a self to be created.
Seattle-area Once Sold Tales needs to find homes for 500,000 books before their warehouse closes at the end of the month. $1 for paperbacks, $2 for hardcovers, or $1.50/lb.
More details here.
Oh, you know, just 10,000 books creating a painting-like nature scene.
[via: My Modern Met]
Works of art (in this widest sense) are ways of building a meaningful community.
Because really, what else would you do with a broken fridge?
(Image stolen from Lawrence Public Library.)
4. You will buy another copy of a book you already own if you encounter a particularly beautiful edition. Fancy endpapers! Genuine leather binding! It’s a collector’s item, really. You’d be foolish NOT to buy it.
Sold!
(For more vintage school library posters from the 1960’s courtesy of BuzzFeed, click here.)
It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation…Full bellies breed gentle manners.
She’d become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
By the very talented Franco Matticchio.
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.
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