Top Cat Books

[groovy-lady]

Yaaaaay I got the Puffin in Bloom Deluxe Edition of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen!!! It’s so pretty!!!!

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[yourdailyqueer]

Agha Shahid Ali (deceased)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 4 February 1949 

RIP: 8 December 2001

Ethnicity: Indian

Nationality: American

Occupation: Poet, writer, professor

Note: Was Muslim

[nemfrog]

Buchschmuck und Flächenmuster. (Book ornament and pattern.) 1902. Cover art.

Internet Archive

[mostlyghostie]

One of my goals down! Nicholas Nickelby, really enjoyed it, though not one of his best.

[deadpoetsmusings]

Not to jinx myself but I’ve been reading one book after another (slowly) after a long, long time

[manuscripts-dontburn]

New Jane Eyre edition for my collection

[nevver]

[chantssecrets]

William S. Burroughs

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

Inside Grandma’s House - from Le Petit Chaperon Rouge 

Little Red Riding Hood - Illustration by Felix Lorioux 1919

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[xompeii]

Trying to restart my Sunday morning coffee shop ritual.

[fourthleafluckart]

painted edges for Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

[godzilla-reads]

A friend recommended I read “Don’t Let the Forest In” by CG Drews by saying “it’s botanical horror and it’s sad”, which got me hooked.

[in-tenebris-iii]

John Minton

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[macrolit]

[macrolit]

The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri (b. 11 July 1967)

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A selection of abstract book cover designs by the Guild of Women-Binders from The bindings of to-morrow (1902).

In the introduction, G. Elliot Anstruther says of the Guild of Women-Binders: “Begun inauspiciously, in the face of discouraging criticism that was at times hardly to be distinguished from hostility, the work went steadily on, realizing its purpose by a consistent loyalty to its own ideal. In the result, criticism has become praise, and even the scoffers of a few years back are constrained to devotion.”

Full text available here.