“There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.” ―Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
(Source: hyassin)
Green Buddhas
On the fruit stand.
We eat the smile
And spit out the teeth.
by Charles Simic
Avocado
The Dharma is like an Avocado!
Some parts so ripe you can’t believe it,
But it’s good.
And other places hard and green
Without much flavor,
Please to those who like their eggs well-cooked.
And the skin is thin,
The great big round seed
In the middle,
Is your own Original Nature—
Pure and smooth,
Almost nobody every splits it open
Or ever tries to see
If it will grow.
Hard and slippery,
It looks like
You should plant it—but then
It shoots out thru the
fingers—
gets away.
{Someone’s prized Nancy Drew collection, proudly on display.}
DREAMY.
When I have enough wall space for all my posters I will hopefully also have enough wall space for fancy book cover displays like this, only mine will be all Agatha Christie books.
Need more walls!
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” ― Robert Frost
The creation of Winnie-the-Pooh will be the subject of a new film.
According to The Daily News’s Page Views blog, Goodbye Christopher Robin, “will explore A.A. Milne’s life between 1918 and 1930 and will disclose details of his relationship with his son, their bond over ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ and how fame affected their lives.”Shooting is planned for the summer of 2014.
Read more here!
A Hidden Medieval Archive Surfaces
“On my Tumblr I recently posted two entries devoted to a remarkable discovery made in the Book History class I am co-teaching with Paul Hoftijzer for the Book and Digital Media Studies programme at Leiden University. It concerns 132 notes, letters and receipts from an unidentified court in the Rhine region, jotted on little slips of paper. They were hidden inside the binding of a book printed in 1577, which is part of the Bibliotheca Thysiana, a seventeenth-century library in Leiden, established by Johannes Thysius (d. 1653). The gems were discovered by during our class while students were systematically going through the binding remains in the library.”
“Hello, my name is Lisa Simpson and I’m a bibliophile.”
(Stolen from Book Keeping’s Facebook.)
