picadorbookroom:

Because really, what else would you do with a broken fridge?

(Image stolen from Lawrence Public Library.)

gatsbymovie:

Visit the official home of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald to learn more about the brilliant author behind The Great Gatsby and his life during the Jazz Age: http://www.scottandzelda.com/

Awesome info about author and legend F. Scott Fitzgerald.

theparisreview:

In Japanese, tsundoku means, “the act of buying books and not reading them, leaving them to pile up.”

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I am most certainly guilty of this.

picadorbookroom:

(via: Book Riot)

Now here’s some math I can understand and implement.

timesofambivalence:

the-absolute-best-posts:

constantneverland:

porn.

This post has been featured on a 1000notes.com blog.

I WANT TO LIVE IN A LIBRARY. Seriously though. My dream/future house will basically be a library. Books everywhere.

These personal libraries are cool!

(Source: littledallilasbookshelf)

orientaltiger:

Shakespeare and Company, Paris

I want a house with bookshelves like these.

I stack mad paper. #summer #reading #sorry #bookporn

Well now that the semester’s over and I’m all graduated from college and stuff (FINALLY!) it’s that time of year when I shut myself up in my room and shove my face into a book. So the reading list for the summer has been compiled. I only found 20 books on my shelf that I was desperately curious about reading; i think that that’s a rather low number to read in a 4 month period, considering that my friends read that amount in much less time. But there’s always more I can add to the list if I finish early (VERY wishful thinking).

Anyway, the list is as follows (in no particular order):

• Player Piano, by Kurt Vonnegut
• Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher-Stowe
• The Wonder Boys, by Michael Chabon
• This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Other Stories, by James Weldon Johnson
• Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders, by Neil Gaiman
• Tales of Ordinary Madness, by Charles Bukowski
• Dune, by Frank Herbert
• Jesus’ Son, by Dennis Johnson
• East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
• Other Kinds, by Dylan Nice
• The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
• Crapalachia, by Scott McClanahan
• Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
• A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest Gaines
• Cathedral, by Raymond Carver
• Reasons to Live, by Amy Hempel
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
• Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift

So, what do you think? Is this a good start? I’m going to begin right after I finish reading Enders Game … Which one do you think I should start first?