mulhollanduncovered:

Books do make the best weapons! For arguments as well as, um, bashing.

Because: Stitch, and The Heat.

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges

Free books: 100 legal sites to download literature   

Free books: 100 legal sites to download literature   

dirtyriver:

dyingofcute:

http://freshome.com/2013/11/13/reading-can-fun-entertaining-creative-reading-net-playoffice/

Note to self: must adapt plans for future home library.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

–Joyce Carol Oates

chroniclebooks:

How to use your book for self-defense.

via How to Win at Everything 

Books as physical objects matter to me, because they evoke the past. A Métro ticket falls out of a book I bought 40 years ago, and I am transported back to the Rue Saint-Jacques on Sept. 12, 1972, where I am waiting for someone named Annie LeCombe. A telephone message from a friend who died too young falls out of a book, and I find myself back in the Chateau Marmont on a balmy September day in 1995. A note I scribbled to myself in “Homage to Catalonia” in 1973 when I was in Granada reminds me to learn Spanish, which I have not yet done, and to go back to Granada.

None of this will work with a Kindle. People who need to possess the physical copy of a book, not merely an electronic version, believe that the objects themselves are sacred. Some people may find this attitude baffling, arguing that books are merely objects that take up space. This is true, but so are Prague and your kids and the Sistine Chapel. Think it through, bozos.

–Joe Queenan, in The Wall Street Journal

I wish I could say my online silence today was out of deference to my fellow Americans who lost their lives on this date eleven years ago, but honestly I was just reading this. All of it.

(It was released today, appearing some time overnight on my Kindle.)

explore-blog:

“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?” Wisdom from Oscar Wilde, hand-lettered by Lisa Congdon (previously), who knows a thing or two about illustrating timeless life-advice.