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Reblog if you're a nobody on Tumblr but you're still very proud of your blog.

Hyena. www.1111comics.me/comic/212

Article about a literature censorship board formed in 1953 in the US - The Georgia Literature Commission - 

"Thus, with God and a pure, unyielding ignorance on his side, Wesberry developed an eight-question checklist with which to gauge literature for obscenity: 1. What is the general and dominant theme? 2. What degree of sincerity of purpose is evident? 3. What is the literary or scientific worth? 4. What channels of distribution are employed? 5. What are contemporary attitudes of reasonable men toward such matters? 6. What types of readers may reasonably be expected to peruse the publication? 7. Is there evidence of pornographic intent? 8. What impression will be created in the mind of the reader, upon reading the work as a whole?”

Catcher in the Rye did not pass through this test. 

What I've read so far in 2015 (currently reading "The Blue Sword"). Book goal to read all the unread books in my library by the end of the year.

Third book of the year!

I mainly read YA because I have a PhD in literature and I need the complexity and emotion to remain intellectually engaged, but sometimes I do like to relax with an adult book. It’s nice to rest my mind with long descriptions and philosophical digressions and to read about feelings like ambivalence and activities like elder care. I really enjoy Tom Robbins’ Jitterbug Perfume because he writes so well about vegetables before he gets to the sexy bits.

E. Lockhart via YA Authors On Their Favorite Adult Books (via flavorwire)

"Mo Nighean Donn" 

Secrets of the Stars Inez N. McFee New York: The Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1922.

I'd love to do this! 

Finally reading the books! Is it wrong that I'm so looking forward to reading the sex scenes? (a byproduct of watching the television series first) 

What I'm reading right now. 

Icy here in NY right now - may have to spend the day building one of these. 

okay tree houses and sinks and stairs and houses are all motherfucking awesome but

can we talk about blanket forts

i mean look at these fuckers

wow they’re so cozy

you can have a light show

imagine having a sleepover with a ton of your friends

hot dang

motherfucking

blanket forts

they can even be outside

i love blanket forts

Dagger with Sheath

Dated: 18th century

Culture: Turkish

Medium: jade, steel, gold, copper, shagreen, gemstone

Measurements: L. with sheath 14 5/16 in. (36.4 cm); L. without sheath 13 5/16 in. (33.8 cm); W. 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm); Wt. 9.1 oz. (258 g); Wt. of sheath 3.7 oz. (104.9 g)

Source: Copyright 2014 © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Saw this on "Book Riot" today. http://bookriot.com/2013/11/13/10-terrific-reading-nooks/

Window reading nook.

52 Books Recommended by TED Presenters

At the end of 2014, find repose by exciting the mind. 52 of the world's leading thinkers offer the books that inspired them and their work.

Listed by topic -- Creativity, design, happiness, history, language, philosophy, math, medicine, mind and brain, politics, science and work. 

what if page numbers in books counted down instead of up

Booklr Follow Train

I love following book blogs and I need more to follow! So reblog this if you are a book blog so I can follow you and we can all be friends in our love for books. Thx guys! <3

I am Bilbo Baggins.

Reblog this with the answer to this question. I guess I am the girl version of thomas from the maze runner

On the Shelves in Oxford this week you can either go Backpacking with the Saints or spend your time Living with the Stars - or both! Living with the Stars tells the fascinating story of what truly makes the human body. We are quite literally not who we were years, weeks, or even days ago. Backpacking with the Saints is an intimate narrative of backpacking alone through the wilderness as a spiritual practice.

Photos by Jack Campbell-Smith for Oxford University Press.

A new place to spend money I don't have.

Three highly-anticipated crisp, brown packages arrived today via airmail  from Persephone Books. The Far Cry by Emma Smith (1949), High Wages by Dorothy Whipple (1930), and Mariana by Monica Dickens (1940). The tie in end-paper bookmarks featuring period textile patterns are the cherry on top. 

also its fucking hilarious that wicked is getting a movie bc then that movie will be a movie that is based on a musical that is based on a novel that is based on a movie that is based on a novel

34 Reading Goals For 2015

Nihi’s Weekly Writing Challenge 2015: The masterpost

Here is the list of the 52 prompts throughout the year - feel free to bookmark it or save it somewhere for reference. I will however also post weekly reminders of the prompts every sunday night for the following week.

Should there be anything you can’t read, feel free to view it on my blog in a higher resolution.

For anyone confused, I have put a more detailed explanation of the prompts under the cut.

Don’t forget to tag your posts with “Nihis Weekly Writing Challenge”! :)

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The challenge was to find a dusty book in the store with an unassuming cover.

I'm new here and I need more blogs to follow!

so if you’re a booklr reblog this so I can follow you :-)

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

The Book of Miracles: Rare Medieval Illustrations of Magical Thinking

The 50 Best Independent Fiction and Poetry Books of 2014

2014 will go down as a landmark year in independent literature, chiefly because a few longstanding "trends" or "developments" are hardening into verifiable traits of fiction and poetry beyond Big P...