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 lit:
But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.
—Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone: Essays (via libraryland)
Always Reblog
(Source: libraryland)
A library is infinity under a roof.
—Gail Carson Levine (via libraryland)
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)
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)
One should never underestimate the power of books.
—Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies (via libraryland)
Books In The Fireplace (photo by Joni Van Bogaert)
Barely Read Books are dealers of rare and second hand books. Located at 18 The Green in the Kent town of Westerham, United Kingdom. (photo by Matt Wakeman)
