books and literature...

... reading, fiction, book and writer's quotes, book art, illustration, comics and more. More means art, history or culture, or just things I like or find interesting. This is my second blog. Link to my other blog about my hometown Cologne in Germany: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/elisanichtbeth

[holespoles]

Moku Hashimoto

"debut performance"

橋本もく「初舞台」

[crochethub]

It’s finally done 🥲 by QueenOfTheCorns

[vintage-tigre]

Viennese brass Terrier, c.1910s

Sculpted by Franz Hagenauer

[shisasan]

Edgar Allan Poe. The Sleeper Originally published 1831

[the-forest-library]

Cat Walk - Mary Stolz

[geopsych]

One of the things that bears repeating before the hot weather takes over is that once your body reaches a certain temperature you can no longer count on making good decisions that you would normally make and you can no longer count on your physical coordination.

Keeping yourself as cool as possible isn't being weak or wimpy. It's protecting your capacity to think and move well if you need to.

In France and other countries last week it was clear that some people died from doing things they never would have done had they been thinking clearly. That confusion can happen to anyone and it comes sooner than people expect. Please, my Tumblr friends in places that will be getting very hot this week, be safe! Don't tough it out and don't take chances. Go somewhere cool if you can and of course, hydrate!

[quotespile]

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it’s no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”

— Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

[weepingwidar]

David Hockney (British, 1937-2026) - Dog Painting 13 (1995)

[hitku]

by Helen Musselwhite

[versesofourhearts]

-versesofourhearts

[duhpikachu]

[litsnaps]

[oldpagesclub]

Hans-Dieter Schwarz illustration for 1974 "Cat hunting by the moon" (Kočka loví při měsíci)

(book from my private collection)

[alookseeblog]

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

Why yes I do enjoy a nice botanical pattern now and then, why do you ask?

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

pressed flower found in an old old book from the 1860’s

[thegentlemanschronicles]