#sharing books

[xerserise]

There's a Facebook group called "Ask for PDFs from People with Institutional Access".

This is their cover image.

It's a good group, with good people in it. Here's the most recently uploaded files, from the last three or four days.

[godzilla-reads]

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.”

Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

[starryarchitect]

Sharing books is so intimate. It's like . . . here is a book with hundreds of pages, I've touched each one of them and now you will too. Here's something I've cradled against my heart to keep it dry in the rain, and now you get to hold it too. Here's the thing that's lain on the table beside me as I sleep, and now it'll lay next to you. Here's the thing that's traveled with me across seas and over mountains, and now you get to journey through the world with it. Here's the universe I've been trapped in for days on end, the confusing and painful and beautiful events I've witnessed through these words, and now you get to experience the same things as me. Here is the thing that has consumed my mind and soul before, and now you get to let it consume you too.

[littlepawz]

I just love this early example of communication. Just look how smart that little girl is - showing her dog a puppy picture, insisting that he look at it and even nodding to herself to show: “look, look, look at this. Yes, yes, I am right, it is a doggy. Look, it’s just like you. LOOOOOK!!!” 

[ellsey]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Leo Fitz/Lance Hunter Characters: Leo Fitz, Lance Hunter Additional Tags: Drabble Series: Part 156 of A Drabble A Day 2021 Summary:

Hunter has read Fitz's favorite book, so now it's Fitz's turn to read Hunter's

Drabble for Jun 4

[twistedboxy]

Clearing the Shelves

Does anyone want any of the following books? My reading taste have changed and I’ve been clearing my bookcase. 

Carrie Vaughn- Kitty Series- Kitty is a werewolf with a radio advice show for the supernatural.

-Kitty and the Midnight Hour (1)

-Kitty Goes to Washington (2)

-Kitty Takes a Holiday (3)

-Kitty and the Silver Bullet (4)

-Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand (5)

-Kitty Raises Hell (6)

-Kitty’s House of Horrors (7)

-Kitty Goes to War (8)

-Kity’s Big Trouble (9)

Catch 22/Closing Time-Joseph Heller

Death’s Daughter-Amber Benson

Serpent’s Storm-Amber Benson

The Dog’s of Babel-Carolyn Parkhurst

Looking Glass Wars-Frank Beddor

Seeing Redd-Frank Beddor

Jasper Fforde

- The Eyre Affair (1)

- Something Rotten (4)

- Lost in a Good Book (2)

The Dead Room-Heather Graham

R.U.R.- Karel Capek

Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame- Emily Herbert

Charlaine Harris-Sookie Stackhouse Series

- Dead Until Dark (1)

-Living Dead in Dallas (2)

-Club Dead (3)

- Dead to the World (4)

- Dead as a Doornail (5)

-Definitely Dead (6)

-All Together Dead (7)

- From Dead to Worse (8)

- Dead and Gone (9)

-Dead in the Family (10)

-Dead Reckoning (11)

- Deadlocked (12)

Kurt Vonnegut

-Hocus Pocus

-Timequake

-Slaughterhouse 5

-Deadeye Dick

-Godbless you, Mr. Rosewater

-Slapstick

-Welcome to the Monkey House

-Cat’s Cradle

-The Sirens of Titan

A.G. Howard Series

Splintered Series

- Splintered (1)

- Unhinged (2)

- Ensared (3)

Let the Right One In- John A. Lindqvist

Christine-Stephen King

Carrie- Stephen King

The Help-Kathryn Stockett

Dogs and the Women Who Love Them-Allen and Linda Anderson

The Secret Garden- Frances Hodgson Burnett

[ladyofroses]

Me: so you say this book made you cry ten times? I'll take it