#library book

[detroitlib]

From our stacks: Illustration from Kitten Caboodle. A Collection of Feline Fiction. Edited by Barbara Silverberg. Illustrated with drawings by T. A. Steinlen. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.

[sparklemaia]

first week of comic book school and i accidentally turned in one of my school library books to the united states postal service

immediately pANICKED

receipt:

good news though, a very amused postal worker called me and then delivered my book to the school P.O. box, and I was NOT banned from the school library for eternity as I'd feared

[nemfrog]

Dates Due 1916-1930. Beginning right. 1916.

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[runningoutofbooks]

Found in my library’s copy of Tinker Belles and Evil Queens by Sean Griffin

[bookishfreedom]

thankful for libraries, today and every day 🖤

[suffer66]

Ana Mendieta, Anima (Alma/Soul) © 1976, Estate of Ana Mendieta

[matchafoxjournal]

7/12/22 • went to the library to renew my membership so I could access cloudlibrary again. I’ve finally caved in and bought an ereader, I’ve read so much since it arrived 📚

[bibliophilecats]

Currently reading: Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee

[detroitlib]

From our stacks: Dust jacket detail from No Cats in the Library. Lauren Emmons. A Paula Wiseman Book. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2024. Jacket illustration by Lauren Emmons.

[tinynavajoreads]

Currently Reading: The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa

I love this book so far...it truly speaks to the heart of being a bookworm, a lover of books, someone who hides away from the world when the world is far too hard to stand.

Rintaro has just lost his grandfather and I'm doing so, gained a friend in a tabby cat named Tiger who needs Rintaro's help in saving other books in the world.

Being a book lover, take a look at this book and see if it speaks to you...with or without the cat.

[conservethis]

I found this feather stuck inside a book of poetry by W.H Auden, next to a poem called “Reflections in a Forest”.

Here’s the full text of the poem:

Within a shadowland of trees

Whose lives are so uprightly led

In nude august communities,

To move about seems underbred

And common any taste for words;

When, thoughtlessly, they took to song,

Whatever one may think of birds,

The example that they set was wrong.

In keeping still, in staying slow

For posture and for social ease,

How much these living statues ow

Their scent-and-color languages.

For who can quarrel without terms

For Not or Never, who can raise

Objections when what one affirms

Is necessarily the case?

But trees are trees, an alm or oak

Already both outside and in,

And cannot, therefore, counsel folk

Who have their unity to win.

Turn all tree-signals into speech,

And what comes out is a command:

'Keep running if you want to reach

The point of knowing where you stand.'

A truth at which one should arrive,

Forbids immediate utterance,

And tongues to speak it must contrive

To tell two different lies at once.

My chance of growing would be slim,

Were I with wooden honesty

To show my hand or heart to Him

Who will, if I should lose, be Me.

Our race would not have gotten far,

Had we not learned to bluff it out

And look more certain than we are

Of what our motion is about:

Nor need one be a cop to find

Undressing before others rude:

The most ascetic of our kind

Looks naked in the buff, not nude.

[nemfrog]

Date due. Handwörterbuch der astronomie. 1897.

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[mbrainspaz]

honestly the hottest thing about the gay romance novel I've been listening to at work is how it takes place in an alternate timeline where we got a democratic texan woman president with a hispanic family in 2016 and tr*mp never existed and the pandemic never happened.

[bookishfreedom]

I’m officially behind on my “one nonfiction book per month” goal

[bluecote]

Computerization in Dorset County Library

c.1974

[noahhawthorneauthor]

August was a good one !