Bloomsbury Reader

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Roger Federer defeats Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-4 to win his 100th career title

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1) Anemone Japonica

2) Passiflora Belottii

3) Pelargonium Eximium

4) Erica Elegantissima

5) Hyacinthus Orientalis

6) Geissomeria Longiflora

7) Pentstemon Heterophyllus

8) Ceanothus Papillosus and Dentatus

9) Pentstemon Azureus

10) Forsythia Viridissima

Illustrations taken from ‘The Gardeners’ Magazine of Botany’ by Thomas Moore, William P. Ayres.

Published 1850 by William S. Orr and Co.

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library.

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Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen trade-sized paperback classics! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on February 24, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

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Ancient libraries make me happy

[macrolit]

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen vintage paperback classics by Homer, Walt Whitman, Carson McCullers, Ray Bradbury, John Steinbeck, Shakespeare, and others! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on August 19, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

[macrolit]

We’re choosing a random winner in two days, so reblog now! And remember, you can reblog this up to five times. :)

[newyorker]

An early look at next week’s cover, “The Queen of Soul,” by Kadir Nelson. 

[macrolit]

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen vintage paperback classics by Homer, Walt Whitman, Carson McCullers, Ray Bradbury, John Steinbeck, Shakespeare, and others! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on August 19, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

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Some important books 🌿

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Libraries by Timtom Thomas Guignar 

Thomas Guignard (a.k.a. timtom) is a librarian based in Toronto, Canada. He has been practicing photography since 2006, and recently he has mostly been focusing on architecture and landscape photography. One of his longest running projects has been photographing libraries.

[macrolit]

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen vintage paperback classics by Edgar Allan Poe, J.D. Salinger, Aldous Huxley, Nevil Shute, Shakespeare, and others! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on May 20, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

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[macrolit]

Special Giveaway: We’re giving away five brand new Penguin Little Black Classics by an amazing group of authors. This is a special giveaway for macrolit followers who are following on both Tumblr and Twitter! Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr and on Twitter (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post and adding your Twitter name as a tag. We will choose a random winner on April 22, so reblog now! And yes, we’ll ship to any country! Easy, right? Good luck! :D For our non-Twitter followers, here’s our regular giveaway of 15 vintage paperback classics.

[macrolit]

We’re choosing a random winner in the next two hours, so reblog now. (Yes, you can reblog up to five times.)

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

46 Illustrations by John Tenniel

London Macmillan 1865 /70 

This copy has been entirely hand coloured by Mary Louise Blake [as a child]

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[macrolit]

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen vintage paperback classics by Edgar Allan Poe, J.D. Salinger, Aldous Huxley, Nevil Shute, Shakespeare, and others! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on May 20, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

[macrolit]

Here’s our brand new giveaway. :) 

[macrolit]

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen vintage paperback classics by D.H. Lawrence, Harper Lee, Franz Kafka, George Eliot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and others! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on April 8, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

[macrolit]

We’re choosing a random winner in four days, so reblog now! 

[macrolit]

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen vintage paperback classics by D.H. Lawrence, Harper Lee, Franz Kafka, George Eliot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and others! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on April 8, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!