Currently reading these two books

Yep, I am.

Yep, I am.

My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky.
Alan Moore
nevver: E.B. White A library is a good place to go.

nevver:

E.B. White

A library is a good place to go.

30th Annual Banned Books Week | September 30th - October 6th, 2012
      “Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.”
                                                         - Lyndon B. Johnson

kazuos

Leave me alone … I’m reading!

Leave me alone … I’m reading!

I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world’s finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they’ve shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky; The Brothers Karamazov

bookshavepores

sammyfreemusic: In order on the picture: Cormac McCarthy, Kurt Vonnegut, E.L. Doctorow Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck Chuck Palahniuk, Leo Tolstoy, Toni Morrison Let the greats who have preceded you inspire you to be great too.

sammyfreemusic:

In order on the picture:

Cormac McCarthy, Kurt Vonnegut, E.L. Doctorow

Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck

Chuck Palahniuk, Leo Tolstoy, Toni Morrison

Let the greats who have preceded you inspire you to be great too.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
Oscar Wilde; A Woman of No Importance

After half a century as part of the University of Chicago community, the Seminary Co-op Bookstore will move on November 21, 2012, to a new location at UChicago’s McGiffert House, 5751 South Woodlawn Avenue—just one block from its original home at the Chicago Theological Seminary. Designed by the renowned architects at Tigerman McCurry, this elegant space will maintain that character of the Co-op and allow it to host readings and author events while continuing the focus on an outstanding collection of texts.

While the bookstore is closed for moving from November 12—20, customers can still place phone and online orders. Several events will celebrate the new space in weeks to come. Visit www.semcoop.com to learn more.

librarian24: Eclipse Books - Bellingham, Washington by brewbooks on Flickr. Filed under CC BY-SA 2.0

librarian24:

Eclipse Books - Bellingham, Washington by brewbooks on Flickr.


Filed under CC BY-SA 2.0

But really, please don’t “throw that sucker against the wall.” Stop book abuse! :-)

But really, please don’t “throw that sucker against the wall.” Stop book abuse! :-)

Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.
Howard Thurman; Meditations of the Heart

I’m taking the next few days off from blogging to spend with friends and family …

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!