May 30, 2012
10 Reasons Why I Still Read Children's Books

noseinabook:

My list of the reasons why I read junior fiction, inspired by reading the article “Adults Should Read Adult Books” by Joel Stein.

(via prettybooks)

May 30, 2012
bookporn:

Breakfast, lunch and books (by Literary Tourist)

bookporn:

Breakfast, lunch and books (by Literary Tourist)

May 27, 2012
Confession - I’ve never read Gatsby ~ The Artful Dodger

Confession - I’ve never read Gatsby ~ The Artful Dodger

(Source: theotheralice)

May 23, 2012
"Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper."

— David Quaimen (via alighthouseofwords)

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May 16, 2012

(Source: puttingmannersonafeminist, via dreamsofdaysthatnevercame)

May 16, 2012

(Source: a-little-out-of-it, via how-novelistic)

May 15, 2012
Bookworms aren’t people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures.

(Source: notapieceofthisworld, via titancia)

May 15, 2012

Vladimir Nabokov’s map of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus’s routes around Dublin in James Joyce’s Ulysses

Vladimir Nabokov’s map of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus’s routes around Dublin in James Joyce’s Ulysses

(via how-novelistic)

May 15, 2012
"What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore it knows it’s not fooling a soul."

— Neil Gaiman, American Gods. (via earth-and-laughter)

(via tehriz)

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May 14, 2012
bookmania:

“Top 10 Most Read Books in the World”. Visual News makes a bar chart to compare the top ten books in the world, based from a report from the website Squidoo. The infographic shows that 3.9 billion Bibles have been printed and the Bible is the most read book in the world.

bookmania:

“Top 10 Most Read Books in the World”. Visual News makes a bar chart to compare the top ten books in the world, based from a report from the website Squidoo. The infographic shows that 3.9 billion Bibles have been printed and the Bible is the most read book in the world.