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Fuck I returned Ninth House on Libby before writing down my quotes 😭😭

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the penguin logo on angela carter’s books (heroes and villains, saints and strangers, fireworks, the bloody chamber)

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“I’m a Purple Reader 🟣📓

🌀 Unconventional. 🧬 Visionary. ✨ Drawn to strange beauty, surreal twists, and radical ideas.

What kind of reader are you?”

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Ralph Fleck - Stapel 27/VII (2013)

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Organising school attic library

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We might feel a LITTLE bit strongly about the importance of libraries. Luckily, there’s a week for that!! This is the time to yell about your love for libraries from the rooftops! Tell your friends to get a QLL membership and/or to donate! 

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Floating Bookshelf II    -    Salman Toor, 2018.

Pakistani , b.1983 -

Oil on panel, 36 x 24 in.

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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”

-Albert Camus ☕️🌙

(Art: Greg Mort, “Sun, Moon and Stars,” 1999)

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Susanna Clarke

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Bright Morning - Kaoru Yamada 

Japanese , b. 1975 -

Oil on canvas

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Randy Shilts was one of the most significant and controversial journalists of the late twentieth century, especially for his coverage of the AIDS pandemic in America. Michael Lee has done a stupendous job of navigating Shilts’s triumphs, and his flaws and mistakes. This book is an essential supplement to the historical record on gay liberation, HIV/AIDS, and LGBTQ combatants in the US military.

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Just finished Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler, and I’m sad to have finished it. I read the duology back to back and got really close to Lauren / Olamina and cared for her family and friends. Octavia wrote in a way that made it so easy to visualize the world, and feel the characters feelings. I really felt a part of Lauren’s world in Sower and again in Talents.

These books have some of the heaviest, most gruesome, grim and dark content I’ve ever read. They were also quite scary at points because they felt so incredibly prescient. But I really loved my experience with reading both and I think they’re very important books for anyone and everyone to read. Please look up a comprehensive list of trigger warnings beforehand - if there is anything that, when read, might affect/harm you, it’s probably in one or both of the books. Best to check just in case :)

I wish I could talk to her and thank her for these books ): i’ll be thinking of them probably forever, and will definitely return to reread later on.

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the smell of old books

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days in my life — january