Literature is my Utopia

Stefaniya, 35, Bulgarian living in the UK, married to the love of my life. Living my second life thanks to organ donation ❤️ "Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to."

[stefito0o]

Sunday ☕️ 📖

[godzilla-reads]

Bookish ABC’s (Post a Picture According to the Letters)

A- Author You Hate

B- Best Cover

C-Correspondence

D- Dust Jacket

E- Endpapers

F- Favorite Book of the Moment

G- Generous Gift

H- Horror Favorite

I- Independently Published

J- Journey

K- Killers

L- Lament

M- Mystery Favorite

N- New To You

O- Overpriced

P- Possibly Your Favorite Ever

Q- Quietly Amazing

R- Researched Well

S- Stupidly Beautiful

T- Terrible Time

U-Underrated Myth/Folktale

V- Very Disturbing

W- What Would You Recommend To Me?

X- Xanthic Cover

Y- You Seriously Like This?

Z- Zero Fucks Given About This Classic

[whilereadingandwalking]

This chronic illness diaries entry is a bit of a rant. But especially as summer continues to gather us all together, please keep this in the back of your mind.

[a-ramblinrose]

✨️ Treated Myself to a Bookmark Haul!!! ✨️

[blogbibliophilia]

[stefito0o]

I just came across this one at work and oh my! Look at that beauty 😍

[sindar-princeling]

something absolutely lovely about especially the first half of fellowship is that the hobbits keep meeting random kind helpful strangers - the elves, bombadil, butterbur, aragorn (also farmer maggot and his wife, though they're not strangers) - until the book solidifies in you the feeling that these are not really instances of random luck, but rather the inherent nature of the world. kind people are everywhere, and no matter where you are, there is surely someone closer than you think that would offer help if you needed it. it's such a beautiful theme across all of LOTR, and it's very sweet to me that it starts from the very beginning of the journey, on such a 'small' (comparatively), everyday scale

[thequeensjester]

Now it's only me. Only us. Correction.

[stefito0o]

Starting my first ever read of Lord of the Rings 🙌

[stefito0o]

Lovely day at the beach yesterday ⛱️ 📖

[bookwormingparty]

[certifiedlibraryposts]

Certified Library Post

[theletterboxstuff]

The beauty of reading books like actual physical books, the smell, the texture of the pages. Its an immersive experience in and of itself.

[stefito0o]

This month's read for the bookclub 📚

[robyn-weightman]

Books I read on our honeymoon 📚

[caecilius-est-pater]

I was searching the Latin/Greek section of a used bookstore for some ~aesthetic~ antique Latin books, and I came across this beautiful 1889 tome: 

This is going to look great on my “look at me I’m a pretentious twat” bookshelf.

But then… the first few sentences read:

“In 1875 delegates of the Oxford University Press proposed to me that I should undertake the compilation of a new Latin-English Lexicon, of something the same compass as the Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott. I acceded to the proposal in the expectation, for which I had at the time what appeared to be good grounds, that I should obtain adequate assistance in the work. My hopes were, however, disappointed.”

Ouch.

He goes on to detail how he spent 12 years working on A all by himself. Then the university asked him to publish what he had, so he threw together the rest of the book, clearly caring less and less the further he got in the alphabet - the entire Q section has four entries - and published… this.

Obviously this is going straight onto my pretentious twat shelf as a goofy conversation starter, but it is interesting and potentially useful if obscure Latin words are your thing. (Did you know “ramen” is a hapax legomenon meaning “a small chip or shaving”?)

So if you ever come across a really obscure Latin word or name that you can’t find anywhere, hmu… but only if it starts with A.

[stefito0o]

Snippets of a Saturday 📚 🥞

[introvertsnation]