Sometimes I will pick up a book in a bookstore and the first thing I see inside will do something visceral enough for me to buy it on the spot.…Continue readingOn Roots and Roads
18 Things Every Book Lover Can Relate To All 18 Pulptastic gifs HERE ~~~~~ Ten books that changed the world From Euclid’s Elements to Freud’s Interpretation of Dream, The Guardian…Continue readingbooks Books BOOKS!
She sees music, in color, and then she paints it. Until artist Melissa S. McCracken was 15, she thought everyone constantly saw colors like she did – in books, math…Continue readingWhat color is ‘C’?
Fictional while female; The rape culture in fiction I was once involved as a working pro in a workshop for beginning writers where one of the participants turned in a…Continue readingWhy is it always rape?
At The Telegraph, Michael Deacon offers us Sex, murder and ‘bulbous salutations’ Or, the weirdest moments from ‘List of the Lost’, the former Smiths singer’s unreadable debut novel. Among…Continue readingErotic Curiosities?
A 17-Year-Old Artist Created This Incredible Map Of Literature Martin Vargic’s intricate cartography is basically porn for book lovers. “The Lord of the Rings and the Song of Ice and…Continue readingLiterature on the map
I was born too late to know ‘Dick and Jane’ — not to mention that I came from an entirely different culture, and taught myself to read long before entering…Continue reading‘Dick and Jane’ vs Dr. Seuss
The BuzzFeed staff has assembled 21 witty bookstore signs like this one. See all the others HERE ~~~~~ What did they find in SubTropolis? This story caught my eye because…Continue readingWhen Booksellers Speak
Cracking down on the monstrous evil of tiny Free Lending Libraries It’s good to know, Charlie Jane Anders reports at io9, that people are focusing on what’s really important. Some…Continue readingFree libraries crisis
One store, one bookImages by Miyuki Kaneko. Via Takram Ebookfriendly tells us about a unique Tokyo bookstore that sells one book, and only one book, for six continuous days, from…Continue readingIs one book enough?