LLIBRE

– Petra

“Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other’s arms.” ― Homer,

1882: Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is famously “banned in Boston” by the Society of Suppression of Vice. Read more about banned poetry for Banned Books Week.

A Field Guide to Chimp Limbs by Gleonard Portions

Jack Lasenby, The Shaman And The Droll (via abookblog)

Artist Alexis Arnold - “The Crystallized Book Series addresses the materiality of the book versus the text or content of the book, in addition to commenting on the vulnerability of the printed book. The crystals remove the text and transform the books into aesthetic, non-functional objects. The books, frozen with crystal growth, have become artifacts or geologic specimens imbued with the history of time, use, and nostalgia. The series was prompted by repeatedly finding boxes of discarded books, by the onset of e-books, and by the shuttering of bookstores.” 

Henry David Thoreau, Walden  (via artificeofeternity)

by Sarah Braham

Paris. (by meduseetappeti)

Hey, lovely followers! The book publishing company I intern at has started a promotion with Starbucks. The “pick of the week” - you know those cards? - will be for S.E. Hinton’s RUMBLEFISH (you know that author who wrote THE OUTSIDERS)!! Which means if you pick it up you...

Harry Potter might be returning x