I'm probably procrastinating on my dissertation.

Samantha, MLIS. 26 year old PhD student studying Communication and Information Studies/Book and Publishing Studies at The University of Alabama.

[curiousfancy]

Exploring the cosiest second hand bookshop. 🔖

Also doesn’t my Fable England dormouse brooch look like it dropped out of a storybook?

[galina]

A dreamy library, so quiet in the days before the spring term starts

[doctoralmanuscripts]

Face masks designed from pages of illuminated manuscripts. I hate to buy multiple masks because it seems like we're capitalizing on a disease that's killing millions but these are far too cool to not have! Find them at: https://embassyofthefreemind.shop/collections/merchandise 

[doctoralmanuscripts]

Title page of His Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy (1655). Commonly falsely attributed to Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. Johannes Wier, Agrippa’s protégée, claims that this was not an authentic work of Agrippa and it came to be published 20 years after Agrippa had passed.   

[lawstudentlivingoncoffee]

One of the good things about summer? Empty libraries 🖤

[turmericandgingertea]

au soleil, en lisant "le neveu de rameau" de denis diderot (2/2)

[thereallilphil]

Just this trigonometry of pictures for your eyes to witness

[champagnesunsets]

i went thrifting today

[etherealacademia]

i need a new bookcase, i’m running out of space to store my books

[lumen-du-reves]

8.11.21 | I set myself the goal of getting a few jobs and writing a few independent articles to get published this year. Jobs done, fellowship secured, so now my discarded classical reception thesis is what I’m working on. It’s so much info, but I hope it’s a worthwhile pursuit.

[threeamserif]

[lov3rs-go]

August 11th, Wednesday

this morning i sat down at my desk (after months of not touching it) and continued my reading/studying of Huey P. Newton's 'revolutionary su!cide' (while listening to a dark academia playlist on yt). it's an incredible book, i highly recommend !!

i haven't done any studyblr posts in what seems like forever, so in light of that, heres what i've been working on;

- reading 'revolutionary su!cide'

- getting into the basics of linguistics

- continuing my german studies

- reading/researching voltaire and leibniz (and a few other philosophers)

[solar1s]

"And I wonder if my apparently negligible voice might not embody the essence of thousands of voices, the longing for self-expression of thousands of lives, the patience of millions of souls resigned like my own to their daily lot, their useless dreams, and their hopeless hopes. In these moments my heart beats faster because I'm conscious of it. I live more because I live on high. I feel a religious force within me, a species of prayer, a kind of public outcry. "

– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

[studywithsonia]

look, tomorrow you will wake up and feel a bit better, a bit calmer. you are going to figure things out eventually, it doesn’t have to all be done tonight. take a deep breath, relax your shoulders, and get some rest. you will manage.

[studyingdawn]

270620 improvised journal spreads, rushed notes, and teas. ₇/₂₅

[violetsnotebook-archive]

18.08.20 / the sun rising on my all-nighter. i’ve got a list of errands to run today but after today, everything should be ironed out. just need to get through today!! hbu? i hope you’re doing okay. take care ♡

[koreamal]

The gift of a solitary library on a Saturday afternoon. Medford; July 2021.