openroadmedia:

Open Road Media And InkWell Management Unveil Recently Discovered Novel By Pulitzer Prize- And Nobel Prize-Winning Author Pearl S. Buck
The Eternal Wonder, Found Forty Years After It Was Written, Will Be Introduced to Readers in October 2013

Read the rest of Pearl S. Buck’s work here!

openroadmedia:

Open Road Media And InkWell Management Unveil Recently Discovered Novel By Pulitzer Prize- And Nobel Prize-Winning Author Pearl S. Buck

The Eternal Wonder, Found Forty Years After It Was Written, Will Be Introduced to Readers in October 2013

Read the rest of Pearl S. Buck’s work here!

groveatlanticinc:

Here’s some funky, literary shadow art in honor of National Short Story Month. 

groveatlanticinc:

Here’s some funky, literary shadow art in honor of National Short Story Month. 

The library would’ve cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone dark with age and wear.

 Claudia Gray, Afterlife (via quillkirkland)

(via martinaboone)

When I find a library book at a someone’s house that was due back two years ago

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

Elizabeth von Arnim (via taylorbooks)

(Source: cajunmama, via taylorbooks)

nucalibrary:

Jennifer Khoshbin is a US based book artist, sculptor and illustrator who also uses collage in her work. Her work can be seen in ‘Illustration play 2’ and ‘Playing with books’ in NUA Library


“Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table.
‘You always look so cool,’ she repeated.
She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table.

‘You always look so cool,’ she repeated.

She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

(Source: riffleromance)

rifflehome:

image “So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line, I decided to come back home.” -The Great Gatsby, Ch 9

(Source: rosescented)

thesummertimeproject:

Artsy Fartsy Friday!!

aMAZEme Labyrinth by Marco Saboya & Gualter Pupo (August 2012)

A 500 square meter maze composed of 250,000 borrowed books. The labyrinth is organized in the shape of Jorge Luis Borges’s fingerprint.

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WriteWorld: Word of the Day: Aeolian

writeworld:

aeolian \ee-OH-lee-uhn, adjective:

1. (usually lowercase) of or caused by the wind; wind-blown.
2. pertaining to Aeolus, or to the winds in general.

Thus, at low obliquity we might expect large-scale dust storms to cease, leading to relatively cold, clear conditions and relatively little
1 week ago - 155

taiomqt:

LIVROS,

livres.
 

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flavorpill:

The Gatsby adaptations that could have been
7 Other Directors Who Should Adapt ‘The Great Gatsby’

Check out the movies-that-might-have-been had a different director took on the daunting task of adapting this classic novel.

flavorpill:

The Gatsby adaptations that could have been

7 Other Directors Who Should Adapt ‘The Great Gatsby’

Check out the movies-that-might-have-been had a different director took on the daunting task of adapting this classic novel.

bookriot:

Dinosaurs and the Doctor, today in Book Fetish.