Videogame Children’s Books
illustrations by H. Caldwell Tanner :: via loldwell.com
when worlds collide.
(via emeralddreamer)
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
The Tempest, William Shakespeare
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
Aurorarama, Jean-Christophe Valtat
Mr. Fox, Helen Oyeyemi
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
Two of my favorite books (and numerous books I cherish) inhabit this list. Go out and read them all! Pronto!!!
(via teachingliteracy)
The joy of books.
3D book art ’written portraits’ is a series of books which shows the different faces, literally, behind the selected autobiographies of anne frank, vincent van gogh, louis van gaal and kader abdolah. the campaign, created by dutch agency van wanten etctera,
Omg. Look at Van Gogh.
(Source: introspectivezoe, via wordpainting)
Read people, please…
(Source: radioactivebitch, via wordpainting)
A new vending machine has been released which can print any book within minutes.
The Espresso Book Machine has access to 500,000 different books - the same as 23.6 miles of shelf space - and can even churn out a fresh copy of Crime and Punishment in just nine minutes.
Pages are printed at a rate of over 100 per minute and are then pressed, glued and cut to produce a pristine book.
Users simply pick the book they would like on a screen and wait for it to be printed … it certainly is a novel way of getting a new book.
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(via cherryfig)
"Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (via pavorst)
(via reveillerlimagination)
"I suspect that the growth of the Internet has actually been something of a boon when it comes to reading: people with more Beanie Babies than books on their shelves spend more time reading than they used to as they surf from site to site. But it’s not a book, dammit, that perfect object that speaks without speaking, needs no batteries and never crashes unless you throw it in the corner. So, yes, there’ll be books. Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you’ll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the binding."
— Stephen King (via toloveamodernleper)
(Source: TIME, via teachingliteracy)
(via monksbigdamnblog)
Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 23, give me line 17.
These books are nestled together right next to me so enjoy the bonus.
From The Book of Lost Things, by John Connolly
“Their absence made the city appear emptier and increased the sense of nervous expectancy that seemed to govern the lives of all who remained” (in reference to the absence of children in a war torn England)
and the questionably less interesting
Apology, Plato
“Whenever he seems not to be so to me, I come to the assistance of the god and show him that he’s not wise”.
