10 authors every Jane Austen fan should read →
examiner.com
“If you’ve been pining for books with that ineffable Austen touch to them, here are 10 authors whose works just may become your next literary obsession.”
June 2009
162 posts
Vixen
by W.S. Merwin
Comet of stillness princess of what is over
high note held without trembling without voice without sound
aura of complete darkness keeper of the kept secrets
of the destroyed stories the escaped dreams the sentences
never caught in words warden of where the river went
touch of its surface sibyl of the extinguished
window onto the hidden place and the other time
at the foot of the wall by the road patient without waiting
in the full moonlight of autumn at the hour when I was born
you no longer go out like a flame at the sight of me
you are still warmer than the moonlight gleaming on you
even now you are unharmed even now perfect
as you have always been now when your light paws are running on
the breathless night on the bridge with one end I remember you
when I have heard you the soles of my feet have made answer when
I have seen you I have waked and slipped from the calendars
from the creeds of difference and contradictions
that were my life and all the crumbling fabrications
as long as it lasted until something that we were
had ended when you are no longer anything
let me catch sight of you again going over the wall
and before the garden is extinct and the woods are figures
guttering on a screen let my words find their own
places in the silence after the animals
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die →
stumbleupon.com
From:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: A Comprehensive Reference Source, Chronicling the History of the Novel
Preface by Peter Ackroyd, General Editor Peter Boxall
More Book Art →
designswan.com
Seriously, how do people come up with this stuff?
May 2009
278 posts
100 Best First Lines of Novels →
infoplease.com
How many can you recognize without looking at the book title?
55 Ways to Have Fun with Google →
55fun.com
I. Love. Google.
I can’t help it. I know it’s not possible for Google to love me back, but that’s OK. True love doesn’t need to be requited. (Side Note: Google is coming out with a new platform later this year called Google Wave, I am ridiculously excited.)
Anyway … this is a PDF file of the book 55 Ways to Have Fun with Google. I’ve only read a couple of pages from the first few sections, but it’s pretty interesting.
Riddle Me This
How does a post become popular enough to be posted on the Popular Stuff page? At first I thought it was because a post had received a certain number of “likes” and “reblogs” but sometimes a post will have less than twenty notes. So what criterion does a post need to meet in order to be considered popular?
Why aren’t there any girls on the Tumblr staff team?
Why does it take me weeks/months to read a non-fiction book when I can finish a novel in a day?
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (via surrenderlove) (via gatekeeper) (via l-dubb)
360 Degree View of Library →
tweedekamer.nl
360 degree view of the Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer Der Staten-Generaal Den Haag in the Netherlands. Click on the image and drag your mouse around.
Pretty Library Spam to Come!
I have a lot of work to do for school, so it’s really necessary that I avoid tumblr for a while. However, I do have some photos of some beautiful libraries all over the world sitting in my queue just waiting to be posted. Enjoy!
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What Should I Read Next? →
whatshouldireadnext.com
You type in a book that you enjoyed reading and this site generates a few suggestions of books that could answer your oft-asked question: “what should I read next?”
“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.”
—Henry Ward Beecher
