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hazor: 51 Love Stories - Whole heart A heart made of 51 books on love. From the love of Botany to paperbacks with covers of cheesy illustrated chest baring Fabio looking men on top of a mountain with their lover grasping their leg in a torn gown. Those were the books your one Aunt in the family would read one after another. 

hazor:

51 Love Stories - Whole heart

A heart made of 51 books on love. From the love of Botany to paperbacks with covers of cheesy illustrated chest baring Fabio looking men on top of a mountain with their lover grasping their leg in a torn gown. Those were the books your one Aunt in the family would read one after another. 

(Source: hazor)

Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

—Nora Ephron (via paperispoetry)

(via chroniclebooks)

chroniclebooks: Above-ground SFPL: “Surrealism and Quebec Literature” #homage @UNYPL @SFPLNews (Taken with Instagram at 5 Muni)

chroniclebooks:

Above-ground SFPL: “Surrealism and Quebec Literature” #homage @UNYPL @SFPLNews (Taken with Instagram at 5 Muni)

fuckyeahbookarts: Bookbinding 101: An Introduction (by Karleigh Jae and Daniel Heywood) Starting tomorrow we’ll be kicking off a series of posts designed to provide a solid foundation of bookbinding knowledge, which, for the new bookbinder, will teach you all you need to know to get addicted started.And for the intermediate binder, it should refresh some skills, teach you some new tricks, and maybe add a new structure or two to the ones you already know how to create.We’ll discuss the materials, the tools you can’t live without, and you’ll learn to make many different book structures and how to combine them. By the end, you should be able to pick up any book on bookbinding and be able to follow along, which sometimes isn’t easy to do without already having some experience and a working knowledge of bookbinding vocabulary. (Also useful for any beginner is this guide to Book Arts Terminology)

fuckyeahbookarts:

Bookbinding 101: An Introduction (by Karleigh Jae and Daniel Heywood)

Starting tomorrow we’ll be kicking off a series of posts designed to provide a solid foundation of bookbinding knowledge, which, for the new bookbinder, will teach you all you need to know to get addicted started.

And for the intermediate binder, it should refresh some skills, teach you some new tricks, and maybe add a new structure or two to the ones you already know how to create.

We’ll discuss the materials, the tools you can’t live without, and you’ll learn to make many different book structures and how to combine them. By the end, you should be able to pick up any book on bookbinding and be able to follow along, which sometimes isn’t easy to do without already having some experience and a working knowledge of bookbinding vocabulary.

(Also useful for any beginner is this guide to Book Arts Terminology)

(via chroniclebooks)