My Secret Library

itsallmadeup: This is my favourite bookshelf.

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:53:12 -0400

itsallmadeup:

This is my favourite bookshelf.

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chicagopubliclibrary: Library Slide By Moon Hoon via...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:45:22 -0400

chicagopubliclibrary:

Library Slide By Moon Hoon

via Colossal:

Architect Moon Hoon recently designed the Panorama House (scroll down), in Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea. One of the most unique features incorporated into the home is a wooden slide built directly into a library which also functions as a stair-stepped home theater seating area.

Click here to see more photos of the Library Slide!

nprfreshair: As they get ready to announce the Pulitzers for...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:48:08 -0400

nprfreshair:

As they get ready to announce the Pulitzers for this year, over at The Atlantic Wire our beloved book critic Maureen Corrigan reflects on the upheaval over last year’s awards. She was one of the jurors for the 2012 fiction prize along with the novelist Michael Cunningham and editor Susan Larson. They passed on their recommendations to the Pulitzer board which has final say and we as shocked as the rest of us when it was announced there would be no prize awarded that year for fiction.

“We Need A Fiction Pulitzer In 2013”:

Corrigan told me, “It was a terrible day last year. I think my fellow judges and I are cautiously optimistic that the board will complete its job this year; otherwise we probably all wish the Pulitzer anniversary speeds by as quickly and painlessly as possible. It’s so crucial that extraordinary writing be recognized and brought to the attention of a wider audience and prizes like the Pulitzer can do that.”

There were a couple of high points to hang onto, though. As much as she still feels disappointed about the failure to choose a winner, the reading experience itself was wonderful, Corrigan explained, the sort of thing she’d yearned for in grad school, “like being in the most intense and tiniest book club,” she said. “We did clash and argue, but God, we took it seriously. That’s the part that really made me angry: We heard when everyone else did that there would be no prize, and that there would be no explanation. I think if you don’t give out the prize, you have to give a reason.”

(via COCOCOZY: SEE THIS HOUSE: A BELGIAN MANSION!)

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:26:06 -0400

(via COCOCOZY: SEE THIS HOUSE: A BELGIAN MANSION!)

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vacants: old books by Will (Certified Ninja) on Flickr.

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:06:07 -0400

vacants:

old books by Will (Certified Ninja) on Flickr.

queenslibrary: Can you name a few?

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 10:19:24 -0500

queenslibrary:

Can you name a few?

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Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:15:53 -0500

prettybooks: 1949 Bookmobile

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:38:49 -0500

prettybooks:

1949 Bookmobile

fuckyeahbookarts: I would just like to say a big thank you to...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:18:33 -0500

fuckyeahbookarts:

I would just like to say a big thank you to Laura West (of Supabinda) for sending me this gorgeous little DIY Bookbinding Kit, which I enjoyed assembling earlier today. The introductory kit provides beginners with basic binding tools and instructions, which are then cleverly bound as a nifty little keepsake. I love the embossed cover!

hicockalorum: gilded book papers

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:03:15 -0500

hicockalorum:

gilded book papers

"It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read."

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:00:31 -0500

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”

- Lemony Snicket (via longlive—thequeen)

gilmoure: I need this. Will perfect for when daughter goes off...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 12:32:36 -0500

gilmoure:

I need this. Will perfect for when daughter goes off to camp this summer.

dtxmcclain: From the book: “Secret Sins” by C. E. Rogers, M....

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:00:22 -0500

dtxmcclain:

From the book: “Secret Sins” by C. E. Rogers, M. D., 1881

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