BookishBuzz recently posted 15 images of books depicted in surreal ways.
Found at BookishBuzz’s Facebook page
Books in Art & Photography
A Photographer’s Take(s) on Reading
Many of us booklovers treasure our copies of Andre Keresz’s famous book of photographs of people reading.
Who knew that all the images in this mesmerizing book are available on the Intertubes?
Click on this link to browse through them.
Link found at Patrick Kurp’s blog Anecdotal Evidence
Bookstores Go to the Movies
A mashup of movie scenes featuring bookstores. Enjoy!
Posted to Facebook by Eat. Sleep, Read, via For Reading Addicts
Bookish Murals
Buildings adorned with murals featuring books.
From Flavorwire via The Goodwill Librarian’s Facebook page
A Delightful Romp through Pinterest’s Bookish Boards
Over at the always-fabulous Book Riot, Becky Cole has assembled links to (and helpfully described) 15 collections of bookish images created by bookloving users of the wildly popular – and image-collection site – and notorious time-sink – Pinterest. Readers of Becky’s post provide links to several additional bookish Pinteret collections.
Thank you, Becky, for steering your fellow booklovers toward many hours of pleasant wallowing in such photogenic bibliophilic pastures!
Found posted to Facebook by Eat Sleep Read
Bookishness at Pinterest
We’ve mentioned some of these book-related Pinterest sites previously, but BookRiot has posted another (and more recent) roundup of Pinterest sites that focus on book-loving, reading, libraries, bookstores, and the like.
One of our personal favorites: An Author’s Habitat (candid photos of writers, some of them at their desks, others showing them doing other things, like lounging at somebody’s swimming pool…).
Fair warning: you could spend hours looking at these wonderful images!
Bookish Quotation du Jour
Conyers, Georgia-based “antediluvian, bibliomaniac, and curmudgeon” blogger Michael Gilleland recently posted this wonderful image and this wonderful quotation at the wonderful Laudator Temporis Acti:
“[T]here is nothing more fit to be looked at than the outside of a book. It is, as I may say from repeated experience, a pure and unmixed pleasure to have a goodly volume lying before you, and to know that you may open it if you please, and need not open it unless you please. It is a resource against ennui, if ennui should come upon you. To have the resource and not to feel the ennui, to enjoy your bottle in the present, and your book in the indefinite future, is a delightful condition of human existence.”
The quotation is from Thomas Love Peacock’s Crochet Castle (1831). The painting is Claude Raguet Hirst’s Companions (c. 1895)
Book Dolls
Michael Lieberman recently posted to Book Patrol several photos of Russian artist Lada Rapina’s doll sculptures that feature books. Enjoy!
Bookish Photo du Jour
Found at Book Porn via Insomniaofthewin
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