September 2011
“Buying books is immensely comforting. Maybe I won’t read them immediately, but...”
– vagabond (via loveyourchaos)
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It's a beautiful day outside, your friends are...
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I have been known to read at the dinner table, with parents, friends, and even significant others watching in mixtures of embarrassment, annoyance, and horror.
“Of course I had read that eventually you wind up losing track of time in prison....”
– The Stranger, Albert Camus (via dayruiningrobot)
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“Next month, Avid Bookshop will achieve genuine bricks and mortar status at 493...”
– Janet Geddis opens Avid Bookshop in Athens, GA.
I have a long post I’m thinking of (Really long, actually. In the old days, we’d have called it an essay), but the shorter version is this: There’s a dominant narrative that the traditional publishing industry is screwed, that physical books are going...
Even before I was born my mom would read me...
teachingliteracy:
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“A bookstore is a mirror or telescope through which one can see the world...”
– Jorma Juhani Kaimio, a Finnish researcher and teacher at the University of classical philology department, until moving to University bookstore management. (via tatteredcover)
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