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The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 1925. 

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Bookish Finds: Jodi Harvey-Brown’s Book Sculptures

I love scouring the Internet to find anything fun relating to books.  Bookish Findsis my…

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june book photo challenge: handwriting

here are a few of my signed books! the ones by patrick ness, ransom riggs & cassandra clare were all signed in-person. i haven’t met john green or marissa meyer (yet!), so those are both autographed copies that i purchased.

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jasonrubicon: Statue of a girl reading in Conway, AR

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Aileen reviews the books she read in April, including 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson, Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation2 written by Scott & David Tipton and Tony Lee with art by J.K. Woodward, and The Annotated Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, edited by  Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina.

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jacob—kurtz:

From the top: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, The Giver by Lois Lowry, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Bambi by Felix Salten, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, Number the Stars by Lois Lowry, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, The Bible, Bulfinch’s Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch a couple of my favorite books.

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“I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”

George R.R. Martin  (via thatconsultingfangirl)

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Murder and Mayhem Bookshop, Wales

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NATIONAL POETRY MONTH DAY 8: Introduction to the Limits of Metaphor (A Love Poem) by Jeannine Hall Gailey

I am snowing inside I am a house with a rickety roof I am a boat that is capsizing I am waves cold on your feet

You are the moon you are beyond my reach I am the cranberry in your tart you are the splinter from the wood spoon

You have a face like a coin I am the fingertip print on the window

You are rain you are a storm surge you have devastated You are the peel of the apple I am the blackberry juice on your lips

You are the peacock’s screech I am somnolent as night doves You are traffic jams I am a desert road

I have a wool sweater on my heart You wear socks on your voice box

I am red lipstick you are the pair of shoes that goes with nothing in the closet You are an untidy and scorched omelet I am a fallen soufflé

I am season one of Lost you are season nine of the X Files I am missing organs I am the fallen starlet you are the boy born without a face

We are a pile of fur and feathers leather and oilstain Civet cat and cigarette perfume wine glass and poorly knit rug

I am cesium I am a radon daughter You are the phosphorous glow you are the sodium flame

We are teenagers in the rain speeding cars tumbles in the corn We are empty bottles in morning light with labels peeled off

We are wingless fireflies We are outlying data the graph that goes off the charts

I am snowing I am out of your reach I am a seascape on your wall I am a boat gone missing on your horizon

-Jeannine Hall Gailey

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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Graham Greene (via maxkirin)

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Understanding Poetry

Happy National Poetry Month! This comic was inspired by one of my favorite poems, "The New Poetry Handbook" by Mark Strand. This month on Incidental Comics, I’ll be exploring the world of poetry. A place, as Marianne Moore famously said, of  ”imaginary gardens with real toads in them.”

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