What English Majors Do
Submitted by: eruantale.net
Shields of Paper
If you have a book you want me to read, tell me here. I'll read it and perhaps I'll write about it along with my own books. That or ask me something, it matters not. I like talking to strangers.
Posts tagged books:
Zweistromland / Land of Two Rivers
installation, mixed media, 1985-1989
[…] Throughout his career Kiefer was a maker of books, one-of-a-kind works like medieval manuscripts. His most monumental expression of this interest is “The High Priestess/Zweistromland/Land of Two Rivers”. This sculpture consists of two bookcases (labeled after the rivers Tigris and Euphrates) containing about two hundred lead books, all on a superhuman scale. Some of the books were blank; others contained such things as obscure photographs of clouds or dried peas. It was a many layered work dealing with the artifacts of knowledge. […] *
(Source: maloriebrooke, via nerdquirks)
Books
I really cannot describe my love for books. Reading has always been something I love to do, no matter where I am. Just the simple act of reading a few lines, gets me into another universe where I can see everything be played out before me. It keeps me sane. While actual books will always be my preference and my one true love, I have to say my nook is my baby. Having all my old friends with me wherever I go, really is something incredible.
(via fuckyeahreading)
THESE ARE THINGS I NEED FOR MY ROOM.
If somebody wants to buy one for me, I’ll love you forever, I swear to baby Jesus. I’ll go on a date too, with a goodnight kiss. And I’ll make you brownies, and I make amazing brownies.
Growing into It: Converting Non-Readers, by an Ex-Non-Reader 
I was a guest writer for ReadLearnWrite! My post just went up today. It’s about my growing up as a less than enthusiastic reader, how things changed, and how I foist books on people now (including my family). Enjoy.
Birth of a Book
A short vignette of a book being created using traditional printing methods. For the Daily Telegraph. Shot at Smith-Settle Printers, Leeds, England. The book being printed is Suzanne St Albans’ Mango and Mimosa published as part of the Slightly Foxed series. Shot, directed & edited by Glen Milne.
(via tobeshelved)
(via makeslifeworthliving)
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
—John Milton, Areopagitica (via libraryland)
