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Bleak House: The bleakness of house tours 1 Jul 2013 | 07:07 am
The old housekeeper, with a gracious severity of deportment, waves her hand towards the great staircase. Mr. Guppy and his friend follow Rosa; Mrs. Rouncewell and her grandson follow them; a young gar...
Snow Falling on Cedars: Leaves 26 Jun 2013 | 02:00 pm
Her life had always been strenuous—field work, internment, more field work on top of housework—but during this period under Mrs. Shigemura’s tutelage she had learned to compose herself in the face of ...
If Books Could Kill 4 Jun 2013 | 01:24 am
I don’t know, those book piles look awfully menacing, and I think the Duchess of Death knows it. I saw this pic at 35 Things To Do With All Those Books, which is definitely worth a look. Number 5 is t...
Designer Bookbinders: Covered 2013 2 Jun 2013 | 07:31 am
Every year or so the Designer Bookbinders society of the UK holds an exhibition of new works called Covered: Beauty and Art in Contemporary Bookbinding. Bookbinders seem to be a bit coy about showing ...
E.B. White’s Letter to Children About Libraries 26 May 2013 | 06:34 am
Filed under: Libraries & Archives
The Missing Ink: Fit to Print 20 May 2013 | 08:47 am
Edward Johnston was a remarkable man, a calligrapher and designer who thought things through from the beginning. When he was asked, in 1906, to suggest improvements to the London educational system of...
Bibliocide 8 Mar 2013 | 05:25 am
This is a tale of neglect and obsolescence. Julian Baggini didn’t have room for his Encyclopædia Britannica. The thirty-two volumes represented his parents’ hopes and dreams for him, but now that he w...
The Portrait of a Bookworm 7 Mar 2013 | 06:33 am
She saw the young men who came in large numbers to see her sister; but as a general thing they were afraid of her; they had a belief that some special preparation was required for talking with her. He...
Retro Future Bookworm 7 Mar 2013 | 05:13 am
I had a bit of fun with the Pulp-O-Mizer, the online steampunky pulp sci-fi magazine cover generator. What do you think? via Book Patrol Filed under: Amusements & Distractions
Eat & Run: Final Word 22 Feb 2013 | 10:30 am
Writing a book is like running an ultramarathon. —Scott Jurek, Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness Filed under: Contemporary Nonfiction, Quotations & Excerpts, Writers & Writing
