Raised on a diet of broken biscuits
By day: academic library monkey. By night: person who makes things and reads when she should be studying.
I use this place as a trivial kind of commonplace book, to collect things which interest/edify/amuse or attract me, along with some journalish musings.
I use this place as a trivial kind of commonplace book, to collect things which interest/edify/amuse or attract me, along with some journalish musings.
Posts tagged "books"
Book Sculptures by Jacquline Rush Lee.
Old Uzbek had words for wanting to cry and not being able to, for being caused to sob by something, for loudly crying like thunder in the clouds, for crying in gasps, for weeping inwardly or secretly, for crying ceaselessly in a high voice, for crying in hiccups, and for crying while uttering the sound hay hay. Old Uzbek had special verbs for being unable to sleep, for speaking while feeding animals, for being a hypocrite, for gazing imploringly into a lover’s face, for dispersing a crowd.
STANFORD Magazine: January/February 2010 > Showcase > Author Elif Batuman
(excerpt from The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Love Them (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
I want to read this book… (via monkeyreader) (via thehermitage)
(via booklover)
From Hougton Mifflin
On Wednesday, March 24, 2010, Tim O’Brien met with students from Cardozo High School in Washington, D.C. He was joined by Nate Fick, the author of One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer, to discuss writing and their mutual combat experiences (O’Brien served in Vietnam, Fick in Iraq and Afghanistan).
After O’Brien read a passage from The Things They Carried, the two authors answered questions from Cardozo’s students—and other questions submitted online from students across the United States. Their conversation was broadcast live over the Internet, where it was viewed by more than 300 schools—and is now available for viewing at any time.
(via ooohmy)
Hazell Designs Book Portfolio 2009
Lovely book bindings by Rachel Hazell.
Series of experimental covers for Faber’s new POD film range by Michael Kosmicki. Inspired by the phenomena of a visual glitch each title and section are transformed into a distinct graphic pattern.
libraryland:bookwatcher:(via doesnotcare: Penguin Books)
libraryland:quiet-time:librarysciences:matthewb:
I’d buy this if I could: Philadelphia designer Mikey Burton’s thesis project is an integrated branding campaign based around the illustrative reinterpretation of classic book covers directed toward junior-high students. The rest of his portfolio is equally polished. (via Grain Edit)
(via bookshelves)
