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August 12, 2009 (via bookshelves) I hope that some day I will have the means to procure a relatively long-term residence. I get a kick out of grown-up things like owning books and dedicating space to storing and reading them. All I have are textbooks and stuff my thirteen-year-old self thought was cool (The Catcher in the Rye, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and Cat’s Cradle, I’m looking at you).

(via bookshelves)

I hope that some day I will have the means to procure a relatively long-term residence. I get a kick out of grown-up things like owning books and dedicating space to storing and reading them. All I have are textbooks and stuff my thirteen-year-old self thought was cool (The Catcher in the Rye, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and Cat’s Cradle, I’m looking at you).

August 12, 2009 • 12 notes • books library
July 29, 2009 Book: Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman The narrator has a lot of feelings. I was mostly okay with that. Takes place in Italy, in the summer. It almost hurts to read this on a stupid light rail train instead of in your Italian summer house after a day of swimming and playing tennis and riding your bicycle into town to visit the bookshop. There’s not a lot going on plot-wise and I found it hard to get a good grasp on the characters, but sometimes you want words and images to wash over you and this book is good for that.

Book: Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman

The narrator has a lot of feelings. I was mostly okay with that. Takes place in Italy, in the summer. It almost hurts to read this on a stupid light rail train instead of in your Italian summer house after a day of swimming and playing tennis and riding your bicycle into town to visit the bookshop. There’s not a lot going on plot-wise and I found it hard to get a good grasp on the characters, but sometimes you want words and images to wash over you and this book is good for that.

July 29, 2009 • books
April 1, 2009 Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart on Waiting For Godot This is adorable.

Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart on Waiting For Godot

This is adorable.

April 1, 2009 • books celebrities plays cute
January 3, 2009 Things to read: the books with pictures version Sir Reginald’s Logbook by Matt Hammill: mustachioed hero battles amusing beasts on a quest for the Lost Tablet of Illusion Ojingogo by Matthew Forsythe: comic about a girl and a squid. ♥ cephalopods. everything by Shaun Tan: stories with illustrations. Good illustrations. Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers (now animated – see above): penguin shows up at boy’s door. Friendship ensues. What It Is by Lynda Barry: pages of collage/painting/words/art

Things to read: the books with pictures version

January 3, 2009 • books illustration art