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My breakdown of Murakami themes.
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"A good night’s sleep helps you perform well in school, and so if you’re a student you should always get a good night’s sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside."
- Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy(Source: prettybooks, via bibliofiliac)
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Lists of Note- F. Scott Fitzgerald's Things to Worry About
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‘No,’ she said. ‘Some things you don’t understand, of course.’
‘Of course,’ Helen agreed. ‘So now you can go ahead and be a person on your own account,’ she added.
The vision of her own personality, of herself as a real everlasting thing, different from anything else, unmergeable, like the sea or the wind, flashed into Rachel’s mind, and she became profoundly excited at the thought of living.
"- Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out(Source: hauntingcontradiction, via awritersruminations)
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"Bird Cloud was to be a kind of poem if a house can be that. After Bird Cloud was finished I knew it was a poem of landscape, architecture and fine craftsmanship when one of those yellow thunderstorms swept in near sunset with gold light spilling onto the ground and a rainbow."
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Help Wanted
One of our side projects this year is Bookshelf Map, a soon to be launched site where we post on a map the locations of all the best bookstores and libraries from our blog so people can easily go visit and see the wonderful bookshelves in real life.
I’m looking for 10 or so people to help go through the blog (nearly 1000 photos!!) with me to search and post the location of each library or bookstore into a sweet new google maps interface.
We (as in all Bookshelf Porn readers) will adore you forever and I will credit you as a contributor.
If you can help out, send me an email hello@anthonydever.com And I’ll be in touch. Thanks!
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High Resolutionoh the horror
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High ResolutionA Series of Unfortunate Events (Adult Covers) by Lemony Snicket
I remember reading an article a while back about the reason Bloomsbury released “adult” covers for Harry Potter over in England. It was due to customer demand that adult readers were a bit embarrassed to be seen reading “children’s books” around town. Thus, Bloomsbury released non-illustrated versions of the covers that had simple photographs and a more subdued color-palette.
So it got me thinking. What other popular children’s series would an adult be a bit embarrassed to be seen reading in public? And I immediately thought of Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events. Not only are they covered in (amazing) illustrations on the outside, but have the extra bonus of being a teeny tiny postcard-sized book, telling those on the subway that yes, you read children’s books, and yes, 200 regular-sized pages is where you max out.
With that in mind, I sought to redesign the series for the self-conscious adult. Using the brilliant photography of Rodney Smith, I ditched the orphans on the cover and instead brought the focus of each to that of the illusive Mr. Snicket, observing the events as they happen, later to be retold in his unique prose. His identity in the stories is always in question, as his relationship with the events is shrouded in mystery. Because of this, he remains hidden from view from the reader, even on the cover.
Waaaaant.
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