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The em dash is rich with power. But you’ll lose yourself.

Can’t Read Anything over 200 Pages? Here’s 5 Books for You.

1. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (tr. Deborah Smith) 

188 pages

A story about a dutiful whose decision to stop eating meat sends her family spiraling in all directions. 

2. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro

192 pages

An aging Japanese woman is now alone in England after her husband’s death. As she looks back on her memories, they start to become less stable. 

3. Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera (tr. Lisa Dillman)

128 pages

This book reads like you’re going in and out of reality, balancing on the borders of life. 

4. Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls

125 pages

You like Shape of Water? Well, this book was written in the 80′s and it’s full of mystery, frog-men, and betrayal. 

5. Winter in the Blood by James Welch

160 pages

A young man living on a reservation in Montana feels disconnected and is searching for a bond between his culture, history, and tribe. 

Perfect book

This is the perfect medieval book: it is on purple parchment, written in golden letters, and illuminated with great images. To top it, the book is fitted in an original bookbox, very few of which survive. What more could a book lover want?

Pics: London, British Library, Stowe 955 (1500-1525). More information and additional images here.

Shadowplay Eterniday by Joseph Cornell. The materials in this book include hand-dyed and colored goatskin, mixed-media collage, acrylic paint, sand, glass, wood, and metal. Housed in a two-tray drop back box and bound by Mark Cockram

I've been spending far too much of my time trying to learn medieval illumination techniques

one of my first semi-successful attempts at fore edge painting! done on an old paperback of aesop's fables.

+ some glamour shots:

Beautiful maps in Six of Crows…

i love thinking about sea creatures they are just swimming right now.... maybe even crawling or floating they’re just out there in water. love wins

The best of Better Book Titles is now available in book form!

Never Flirt with Puppy Killers: And Other Better Book Titles makes a great gift for any literature geek!

Found this in an article from Brain Pickings and now I'm in love. 

The Book of Miracles: Rare Medieval Illustrations of Magical Thinking