My Life in Books

Everything books and what I'm reading.

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“Keepers of notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.”

Joan Didion- On Keeping a Notebook (via fuckyeahnotebooks)

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“This is clearly the best edition of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: http://www.openculture.com/2015/06/the-splendid-book-design-of-the-1946-edition-of-gibbons-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire.html … “

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Literary Brass Bracelet with Chapter 34 of Pride and Prejudice novel.

For sale at Jezebel Charms

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Bonus library drop box sign on Instagram

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reading space.

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3D printed replicas of mythical creature and cryptid skeletons by MythicArticulations on Etsy

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This illustrated 18th century love letter was originally folded into a small interlocking square called a “puzzle purse”. (You’ll be relieved to know that we used a facsimile version to make the demonstration GIF above.) For more on this charming piece of folk art, see this post on the Houghton Library Blog.

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Houghton Library, Harvard University

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Old school cootie catcher.

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Reading Room by Stephi Graffink

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