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April 01, 2013
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"What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden."

— Elizabeth von Arnim (via cajunmama)

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March 23, 2013
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npr:

nypl:

We’re speechless… and also curious whether we would ever be able to eat any of these cakes, let along cut into one of them. But, we want one anyway. 

Of course, we also think that you should read the book while you eat its cake doppelganger, so why not visit NYPL’s online catalog and pick one up today!

bookgasms:

30 Gorgeous & Delicious Literary Cakes

Mmmmmm, cake! — tanya b.

Cool!

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January 06, 2013
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farewell-kingdom:

Jodi Harvey-Brown

Reminds me of Susan Blackwell’s work. So lovely.

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December 06, 2012
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SHADEboys: Help my favourite Scotswoman!

shadeboys:

(Next to my gran, of course, and my mum when she’s willing to call herself such.)

Sya Bruce of Mountains of Instead book blog is the lass from Black Isle who’s largely responsible for me sounding like myself in the books SHIFT and SHINE. She vetted my dialogue, as well as the circumstances…

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September 10, 2012
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Series 3 of Downton Abbey premieres Sunday, September 16 on ITV. (x)

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August 03, 2012
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"I’ll spend the rest of my life reading, and because I’d rather read than do anything else, I don’t look forward to years of hopeless, black despair."

— Willie Sutton (via krystleissocool)

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July 28, 2012
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teachingliteracy: ronulicny: Luiz Camnitzer, Window, 2001-02.

teachingliteracy:

ronulicny:

Luiz Camnitzer, Window, 2001-02.

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July 10, 2012
"The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on."

— Chuck Palahnuik

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July 10, 2012
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"JANE
MY LITTLE SUNBEAM
WHERE ARE YOU
I NEED YOU BY MY SIDE
I’m taking a walk
be back for dinner
AH YES MY CAGED SPRITE
COMMUNE WITH NATURE AND UPON YOUR RETURN
RELATE TO ME THE VAGRANT GLORIES OF THE RUINED WOODS
do you really want me to describe my walk to you
MORE THAN ANYTHING YOU POCKET WITCH
it is fairly cloudy out
looks like rain soon
AHHH TO THINK THAT MY LITTLE STARLING JANE
SHOULD RETURN
TO PERCH ON MY BROKEN MALFORMED SHOULDER
SINGING A SONG OF THE GREY AND WRACKING SKIES
MAKES MY HEART SWELL TO BURST
all right"

— Texts from Jane Eyre @hairpin

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July 10, 2012
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It’s been too long. 6 favorite caps of Mary/Matthew (Downton Abbey) - requested by aloha-mora

It’s been too long.

6 favorite caps of Mary/Matthew (Downton Abbey) - requested by aloha-mora

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