Books Temple

I might have a Books problem. HALP.

[scavengedluxury]

Four Seasons, Mansfield. June 2016.

[librarymoments]

When a new hire hasn’t been on time to a shift yet...

[aesthicsandshit-blog]

You changed me, not for better or for worse, but just change for the soul. You were my first love, and you taught me so many things. I felt so many new emotions I didn’t know I was capable of but I loved every minute of it. I just hope I taught you something too.

G.M.B (via aesthicsandshit)

[pickeringtonlibrary]

May 15-June 15 is National Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month. Take this opportunity to learn more about this misunderstood neurological disorder and pick up one of these amazing books while you’re at it! Visit www.tourette.org for more information. 

Michael Vey series by Richard Paul Evans 

Passing for Normal by Amy Wilensky

When Mr Dog Bites by Brian Conaghan

Icy Sparks by Gwyn Rubio

The World’s Strongest Librarian by Josh Hanagarne

Jerk by Jonathan Friesen

[ben-barnes-is-my-husband]

I GOT A FULL TIME JOB!!

So, after 13 months of trying to land a teen librarian job after having graduated in May 2015 with my Master of Library & Information Science, I FINALLY got a full time job as Teen & Reference Librarian. AND, it is near the water, like literally the ocean is down the road. I could see it as I was pulling out of the parking lot. 

I start July 1st, and I am so so excited about this. Finally, my career has begun. 

[wanlingnic]

My favourite spot in the Wills Memorial Building Library. (Totally empty after exam season, just the way I like it.)

[s0manythings]

08.06.16 • 15:52 • 69/100 • (forgot to post yesterday woops) Thought I’d try out studying in the local library.

Got the go ahead from my lecturer from my research proposal but now I need to sort out referees.

[study-yearsss]

Lovely days 📚

[bellestudy]

Essay writing in the early morning🌻

[theparisreview]

I never write anything that I don’t think will be paid for.

Truman Capote, The Art of Fiction No. 17 (via theparisreview)

[bodleianlibs]

Pictured above are the earliest extant bookcases in the world.

Functional and a little severe, they were installed in the last few years of the 16th century, when the Bodleian Library was being restored by Thomas Bodley. Located in Duke Humfrey’s Reading Room, they are still available for all Readers to sit at and use.

[austinkleon]

The difference between schools and libraries

From John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground History of American Education:

To begin with, libraries are usually comfortable, clean, and quiet. They are orderly places where you can actually read instead of just pretending to read. For some reason libraries are never age-segregated, nor do they presume to segregate readers by questionable tests of ability…. The librarian doesn’t tell me what to read, doesn’t tell me what sequence of reading I have to follow, doesn’t grade my reading. The librarian trusts me to have a worthwhile purpose of my own. I appreciate that and trust the library in return. Some other significant differences between libraries and schools: the librarian lets me ask my own questions and helps me when I want help, not when she decides I need it. If I feel like reading all day long, that’s okay with the librarian, who doesn’t compel me to stop at intervals by ringing a bell in my ear. The library keeps its nose out of my home. It doesn’t send letters to my family, nor does it issue orders on how I should use my reading time at home. The library doesn’t play favorites; it’s a democratic place as seems proper in a democracy. If the books I want are available, I get them, even if that decision deprives someone more gifted and talented than I am. The library never humiliates me by posting ranked lists of good readers. It presumes good reading is its own reward and doesn’t need to be held up as an object lesson to bad readers…. The library never makes predictions about my future based on my past reading habits. It tolerates eccentric reading because it realizes free men and women are often very eccentric.

Filed under: libraries

[mynameismarines]

Today I’m talking about the lack of diversity on YouTube and within BookTube and what we can do to change that.

*Hint: it involves checking out the channels of these wonderful, diverse creators making videos about books. I want to keep adding to this list, so if you are a POC BookTuber, let me know and I’ll add you! 

A Clockwork Reader AJ Reads Ashley Dominique  Bedtime Bookworm BettyBotterzBooks Bookish Realm Books are my Social Life Books Undone (Rachel Kern) BooksAndBigHair BooksandBullshit BooksNChilli Brown Girl Reading Cherie Lampley ClarisseReads dani! dany! danie! Denise D. Cooper Disis19 Hearts… Don’t Stop Readin’  FangirlNoir FreeFormLady InkBonesBooks Inthebookcorner isareads Jellafy Joana Sousa KeyReadThat Krystol the book worm Lamp Sunnies  Latin Lector Liken Books LiyareadsYA LovingDemBooks  LuLo Fangirl majibookshelf Marie Vizuete nabibliomania Oh Hey Sush OhEmVee Reads Paperback Prima Donna perpetualpages PixieTonic Pretty Brown Eye Reader Positive Writer nattersaur ReadLifeWildfire rincey reads Rocket Reads sandyreadsalot Sarai Talks Books sarcasmpersuasion SCSreads shemightbemonica StrangeShellie Shy NoteBooks squibblesreads Story Nut Symone Books TamikaUploaded That’s What She Read The Boy Who Cried Books The Poptimist The Rejected Manuscript The Storyscape TheSkepticalReader thebookbasement These Sensational Reads Tiffany Tucker WhispersOfTheSilentWind

[vivelareine]

The King of France was walking on the terrace of Versailles; the fairest, not only of Queens, but of women, hung fondly on the Royal arm; while the children of France were indulging in their infantile hilarity in the alleys of the magnificent garden of Le Notre … and playing at leap-frog with their uncle, the Count of Provence; gaudy courtiers, emblazoned with orders, glittered in the groves, and murmured frivolous talk in the ears of high-bred beauty.

“Marie, my beloved,” said the ruler of France, taking out his watch, “’tis time that the Minister of America should be here.”

“Your Majesty should know the time,” replied Marie Antoinette, archly, and in an Austrian accent; “is not my Royal Louis the first watchmaker in his empire?”

The King cast a pleased glance at his repeater, and kissed with courtly grace the fair hand of her who had made him the compliment.

–William Thackeray, Stars and Stripes

[girlmeetslibrary-blog1]

500 followers!!🎉

I just reached 500 followers! Thanks to everyone who is following me and reblogging/liking my posts!

Feel free to send me messages in my ask box & give me some book recommendations(: I’d love to get to know you all!

[the-woman-who-reads]

Ernest Hemingway

[blazeofgold-deactivated20190921]

I would give all my metaphors in return for one word drawn out of my breast like a rib for one word contained within the boundaries of my skin

Zbigniew Herbert, from ‘I Would Like to Describe,’ Collected Poems 1956-98, trans. Alissa Valles (via brittleglory)