Golden Mountain Books

[godzilla-reads]

It’s almost the end of Amphibian Week 2026 (May 3-9)!

If you, like me, love our amphibian neighbors, pick up a book, or make a hiding place for them in your yard. There is so much we can do!

🐸 The Book of the Frog by Sally Coulthard

[budsbooks]

Finally, the misfortune can be brought about also by the mere attitude of the persons to one another through their relations. Thus there is no need either of a colossal error, or of an unheard-of accident, or even of a character reaching the bounds of human possibility in wickedness, but characters as they usually are in a moral regard in circumstances that frequently occur, are so situated with regard to one another that their position forces them, knowingly and with their eyes open, to do one another the greatest injury, without any of them being entirely in the wrong. This last kind of tragedy seems to me to be far preferable to the other two; for it shows us the greatest misfortune not as an exception, not as something brought about by rare circumstances or by monstrous characters, but as something that arises easily and spontaneously out of the actions and characters of men, as something almost essential to them, and in this way it is brought terribly near to us... We see the greatest suffering brought about by entanglements whose essence could be assumed even by our own fate, and by actions that perhaps even we might be capable of committing, and so we cannot complain of injustice. Then, shuddering, we feel ourselves already in the midst of hell. In this last kind of tragedy the working out is of the greatest difficulty; for the greatest effect has to be produced in it with the least use of means and occasions for movement, merely by their position and distribution.

On Tolstoy's approach to tragedy, from the introduction of Anna Kerenina.

[literaria-journal]

still savoring A Lover's Discourse 🥀

[mostlyghostie]

Found some 70s LoTRs this week to replace my crappy movie tie-in omnibus. Three quid!

Links

[thecornercoffeeshop]

Commonwealth Books, Boston

[dzerzhinskaya]

has anyone heard of books? getting really into books this year #nichehobby

[nelyaaas]

july 2026 - mood for the first half is buying coffee excessively, reading the secret history (love it!) and the house of leaves with the buddies

[whimsicalarchives]

[fuckyeahvintageillustration]

‘L'art gothique’ by Louis Gonse. Cover design by Eugène Grasset, binding by René Wiener, Nancy, ca. 1898.

Source

[vesperalities]

reading, writing, & bidding october goodbye

[the---hermit]

26|03|2026

I've been taking every chance I get to study outside and I am loving it. My reading historical sources and writing notes continues, which is why I have not made a new master thesis update yet. Today's big news is that after seven months I have finally finished reading Who's Afraid Of Gender by Judith Butler. I feel a sense of accomplishment I can hardly put into words. It was a pretty challenging book but it was very much worth it. Not the five starts I had predicted but I am so glad I took my time to read it, annotate it and reflect on it.

I have decided to attempt reading Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam before the end of the trans rights readathon. I am not sure I will be done with it by the end of the month, but I don't really care. I have only read the introduction so far and I am already loving it so we're off with a great start.

[lackadaisycal-art]

Hand-made hot water bottle cover of my favourite book, because sometimes you need something tactile to work on

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

antique leather bound books from the 19th century with marbled and coloured page edges

[tacandida]

So pretty!

[caffeinated-bibliophile]

I must not look at books to buy,

I must not "add to cart,"

For there're too many near at hand that I have yet to start.

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

Nature’s Pageant the story of the seasons - The Rambler Nature Books

Attractive art nouveau covers c1910

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

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[pantheonbooks]

Since 2021, PEN America has documented nearly 16,000 book bans in public schools nationwide—a number not seen since the McCarthy era 1950s. Stand with the Banned by choosing to read banned and challenged books this September and October.

Stand with the Banned—enjoy these Banned Books Week reads from the Pantheon Graphic Library.

[godzilla-reads]

🌳 Evidence: Poems by Mary Oliver

Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟/5

Inspired by the work of William Wordsworth, Mary Oliver writes her poems with such a flow and a rhythm to them that I believe she’s even as great as Wordsworth. Oliver writes of nature and love and gifts. She writes about what it’s like to give and take. One of my favorite poems in “Evidence” is called “Prayer”, which begins with the lines, “May I never not be frisky, / May I never not be risqué.”

I am blessed to read Mary Oliver’s poetry and find such inspiration in it. Her words remind me to take a step back and appreciate all I can. The final part of “To Begin With, the Sweetgrass” will stay with me for a long time:

“And I have become the child of the clouds, and of hope. / I have become the friend of the enemy, whoever that is. / I have become older and, cherishing what I have learned, / I have become younger.

“And what do I risk to tell you this, which is all I know? / Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.”