Book Infested

Hi, I'm Salem/Ra: horror book reader, antique book collector, book blogger, local hag. Goodreads is bookinfested if you would like to follow me there.

[macrolit]

[macrolit]

The Story of My Life, Helen Keller (b. 27 June 1880)

[hangsawoman]

the lottery, shirley jackson

[hangsawoman]

happy lottery day!!

a lot of people wanted to know what shirley jackson meant with this story. she told all who asked different meanings; it’s about small town life, the holocaust, antisemitism, the myth of the scapegoat… she told one high school student: “if you can’t figure it out, i’m not going to tell you.”

she approved one message to be published in the the new yorker, written by a young kip orr;

[house0fburton]

[macrolit]

from ml.books

[werewolf-transgenderism]

they’re having an auction of ALA “Read” posters and I need everyone to get in on this:

SIGNED Spike Lee? the iconic Nicolas Cage one? Xena and Gabrielle? the one that just says “SEX”? LeVar Burton?? and there’s so much more on the site like Fabio and a signed one with Mikhail Baryshnikov and one with Brandy, etc., etc. I wish I had money to drop on this

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

Illustrated initial letter from a latin new testament printed in london 1592

421 years ago during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I 

[bookinfested]

New book

[mothsrcool]

The language of Flowers, published 1816. A lovely find!

[rosieandthemoon]

Published 1888 {read}

[macrolit]

[aliteraryprincess]

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle-age.

Sylvia Plath, November 7 1959, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, ed. Karen V. Kukil

[aliteraryprincess]

For whoever looked at an elderly lady and saw the young heroine she once was?

Gill Hornby, Miss Austen

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[autumnbell32]

from Mapping the Interior, by Stephen Graham Jones

[autumnbell32]

Stephen Graham Jones

[bookinfested]

Bruh, why did it take me so long to discover Stephen Graham Jones? His books are so good

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

I love old books.

we’ve been finding new homes for old books since 1970