May 2012
47 posts
2 tags
7 tags
4 tags
Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life…And when I sleep, let...
– Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (via bookmania)
4 tags
5 tags
Underlined passage: A Double Life
strandbooks:
A new series in which we present to you the underlined and highlighted passages we find in used books.
3 tags
2 tags
5 tags
3 tags
What are you reading this Memorial Day weekend?
nprfreshair:
Anyone need some fresh suggestions? Let’s make a list.
6 tags
7 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
4 tags
2 tags
And yet we use the diaeresis for the same reason that we use the hyphen: to keep...
– The New Yorker’s Umlaut Is Actually a Diaeresis : The New Yorker (via housingworksbookstore)
8 tags
If poetry is going to be tortured, agonized, and morbidly introspective, it...
– Dream a Little Dream of Me: John Berryman by Stephen Akey (via millionsmillions)
2 tags
Why I'm a Terrible Librarian →
6 tags
8 tags
2 tags
5 tags
2 tags
2 tags
3 tags
4 tags
And it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by...
– John Green, The Fault In Our Stars (via bookmania)
1 tag
2 tags
1 tag
4 tags
7 tags
4 tags
Why Hunger Games Is The New Little House on the... →
8 tags
2 tags
1 tag
6 tags
7 tags
6 tags
9 tags
7 tags
Staff Picks
Hermione’s Picks: Chicks with Sticks by Elizabeth Lenhard. Four teenage girls from very different social cliques at their progressive Chicago high school become friends after forming a knitting club.
4 tags
5 tags
5 tags