books, bugs, plants, repeat.

[geopsych]

Zinnia.

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

“I’m never all that interested in a view. It’s the company that goes with it.”

– Patrick White, Dead Roses

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BFT Book Photo Challenge

Day 9: Sister, Sister!

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beautiful

[the-two-germanys]

La belle dame sans merci. Poems by John Keats John Keats Illus. by Robert Anning Bell London: George Bell & Sons, 1897.

[yvanduque]

My new book is out !  “Le Petit Ivan”, written by Niki Orfanou and illustrated by me. Published By https://lelievredemars.net/

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

To Tell The King The Sky Is Falling - Sheila A Braine 

Blackie and Son [No Date c1897]

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[Sold]

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“While civil war raged in Lebanon, Najla Jraissaty Khoury traveled with a theater troupe, putting on shows in marginal areas where electricity was a luxury, in air raid shelters, Palestinian refugee camps, and isolated villages. Their plays were largely based on oral tales, and she combed the country in search of stories. Many years later, she chose one hundred stories from among the most popular and published them in Arabic in 2014, exactly as she received them, from the mouths of the storytellers who told them as they had heard them when they were children from their parents and grandparents. Out of the hundred stories published in Arabic, Inea Bushnaq and Najla Jraissaty Khoury chose thirty for this book.” Honored to share one of these stories with you today. Read the entire excerpt here.

[lilithsplace]

Bacchanal Poetics,  2016 - Ryan Mosley (b. 1980)

[alternateworldcomics]

Adaptations of the works of H.P. Lovecraft by I.N.J. Culbard that appeared between 2010 and 2014.

[americanlibraryassoc]

Gabriel García Márquez’s Archive Freely Available Online

The Harry Ransom Center in Texas has digitized and made available roughly half of the novelist’s archive, including a draft of an unpublished memoir.

Gabriel García Márquez’s archive is now available online in English and Spanish! 

[bookshavepores]

Jane Austen’s handwritten manuscript of Persuasion

[americanlibraryassoc]

Dewey Decibel Podcast: Responding to Charlottesville

The latest Dewey Decibel is here! The episode looks at how libraries can fight hate.

[uispeccoll]

This beautiful folio, called Edo Tōkyō Kamisukishi Kō by Yoshikuni Seki, is about the history and techniques of paper making in Tokyo, Japan. The book includes vibrant illustrations of the paper making process, including the creation of the pulp (second image down from the top) and soaking the pulp in water (left image second from the bottom). It also has various Japanese paper samples that have been pasted inside the book. Featured are just a few of my favorites.

FOLIO X-Collection TS1095 .J3 S435 1943

- Hannah

Seki, Yoshikuni. Edo Tōkyō Kamisukishi Kō /. 1943.

[puckle]

Fly’s eastern Hercules beetle friend.

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page 70 of “The sea fairies” (1911)

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Harper Perennial Classics

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On the look of Stuart Little…