December 2011
82 posts
“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions....”
– Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to F. W. Thomas dated February 14, 1849 (via bookoasis)
A Garden By H. P. Lovecraft
There’s an ancient, ancient garden that I see sometimes in dreams, Where the very Maytime sunlight plays and glows with spectral gleams; Where the gaudy-tinted blossoms seem to wither into grey, And the crumbling walls and pillars waken thoughts of yesterday. There are vines in nooks and crannies, and there’s moss about the pool, And the tangled weedy thicket...
Study: Library Users Drive Consumer Sales →
thelifeguardlibrarian:
Library Journal’s Library Hotline’s survey:
50% of all library users go on to buy books by an author they were first introduced to at the library;
20% of library users are “power patrons.” They visit the library at least once a week, borrow all types of media, and are active buyers of books and other media, including e-books;
Power patrons are more likely to vote at a...
I love books. The ability to be sitting in a crowd...
Sometimes putting down a book is like waking from...
teachingliteracy:
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“Let her be bored. Let her have long afternoons with absolutely nothing to do....”
– Make Your Kid A Writer (via creatingaquietmind)
“In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible...”
– Albert Camus (via literati) (via libraryland)
“Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from...”
– Samuel Johnson (via itscandidlycara)
“As I grow older I find I’m losing my patience more and more with the freakshow...”
– The Last Goddess (via slang-king)
