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May 5

‎It’s still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.

- Neil Gaiman (via phancat)

Something to keep you busy during National Library Week

I bet you guessed my answer to question #1! 

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noblette:

55 Reading Questions

1. Favorite childhood book? 
2. What are you reading right now?
3. What books do you have on request at the library?
4. Bad book habit?
5. What do you currently have checked out at the library?
6. Do you have an e-reader?
7. Do you prefer to read one book at a time, or several at once?
8. Have your reading habits changed since starting a blog?
9. Least favourite book you read this year (so far)?
10. Favorite book you’ve read this year?
11. How often do you read out of your comfort zone?
12. What is your reading comfort zone?
13. Can you read on the bus?
14. Favorite place to read?
15. What is your policy on book lending?
16. Do you ever dog-ear books?
17. Do you ever write in the margins of your books?
18. Not even with text books?
19. What is your favourite language to read in?
20. What makes you love a book?
21. What will inspire you to recommend a book?
22. Favorite genre?
23. Genre you rarely read (but wish you did)?
24. Favourite biography?
25. Have you ever read a self-help book?
26. Favourite cookbook?
27. Most inspirational book you’ve read this year (fiction or non-fiction)?
28. Favorite reading snack?
29. Name a case in which hype ruined your reading experience.
30. How often do you agree with critics about a book?
31. How do you feel about giving bad/negative reviews?
32. If you could read in a foreign language, which language would you chose?
33. Most intimidating book you’ve ever read?
34. Most intimidating book you’re too nervous to begin?
35. Favorite Poet?
36. How many books do you usually have checked out of the library at any given time?
37. How often have you returned books to the library unread?
38. Favorite fictional character?
39. Favourite fictional villain?
40. Books I’m most likely to bring on vacation?
41. The longest I’ve gone without reading.
42. Name a book that you could/would not finish.
43. What distracts you easily when you’re reading?
44. Favorite film adaptation of a novel?
45. Most disappointing film adaptation?
46. The most money I’ve ever spent in the bookstore at one time?
47. How often do you skim a book before reading it?
48. What would cause you to stop reading a book half-way through?
49. Do you like to keep your books organized?
50. Do you prefer to keep books or give them away once you’ve read them?
51. Are there any books you’ve been avoiding?
52. Name a book that made you angry.
53. A book you didn’t expect to like but did?
54. A book that you expected to like but didn’t?
55. Favorite guilt-free, pleasure reading?

(Source: jessanmiramon)

Apr 6

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer’s work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader’s recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book’s truth.

- Marcel Proust (via alighthouseofwords)

Apr 3
(via @mashable)

(via @mashable)

floralenthusiast:


…i know…

floralenthusiast:

…i know…

(Source: hone-y)

Mar 7

You learn a lot when you know no one else is going to do things for you.

- Megan Crewe, The Way We Fall (via simply-quotes)

(Source: simply-quotes)

Mar 6
Agreed! >^..^<
alpha-lima-lima-papa:

Every good book shelf needs a kitten shelf!

Agreed! >^..^<

alpha-lima-lima-papa:

Every good book shelf needs a kitten shelf!

(Source: flaws-on-me)

Mar 5

laughingsquid:

Everyday Things You Never Knew Had Names

The History of [Western] Music in Seven Minutes, by Spanish artist Pablo Morales de los Rios. (You don’t have to understand Spanish to get it.)

(Source: openculture.com)

The next time you’re bored in math class, consider the stars.

(via @mashable: 8 Videos That Prove Math is Awesome)

Feb 2

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Feb 2

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A library, and a quote by my namesake. How could I not reblog this?
enigmaofreality:

Original Picture from: http://dreamandshadow.tumblr.com/ I only added the quote!

A library, and a quote by my namesake. How could I not reblog this?

enigmaofreality:

Original Picture from: http://dreamandshadow.tumblr.com/ I only added the quote!

Linkin Park - Wisdom, Justice, and Love

In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day