Apr
26
My new diet, you guys.
Every day.
Books — they do a body good.
(via unabridgedbookstore)
Iris Blasi
Marketing Manager at Open Road Integrated Media. I like books and the people who read them.
Posts tagged books
The only thing better than pictures of Marilyn reading is reading about Marilyn.
Read Gloria Steinem’s take on the blonde bombshell in MARILYN.
Apr
21
Queen Elizabeth II (whose 87th birthday is today) was apparently a total bookworm as a teen. I can’t help but wonder what she’s reading.
via HuffPo
Mar
7
Designer Elizabeth Perez has created a unique copy of Rad Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 that comes with a match and has striking paper along its spine.
via Laughing Squid
Oct
11
“Books are, let’s face it, better than everything else. If we played cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go 15 rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time. Go on, try it. The Magic Flute v. Middlemarch? Middlemarch in six. The Last Supper v. Crime and Punishment? Fyodor on point. And every now and again you’d get a shock, because that happens in sport, so Back to the Future III might land a lucky punch on Rabbit, Run; but I’m still backing literature 29 times out of 30.”
Nick Hornby, in “The Polysyllabic Spree: A Hilarious and True Account of One Man’s Struggle With the Monthly Tide of Books He’s Bought and the Books He’s Been Meaning to Read”
May
21
Bonds Forged by Books
“Does the act of reading, at a glance, feel in any way communal? Or does it feel, in fact, quite the opposite? Even members of the most ambitious and tightly-knit book clubs tend to do their actual reading in solitude. … Nevertheless, as you read, your fellow adventurers are out there waiting to meet you, biding their time behind a chance encounter, a well-fated introduction, a tweet, or a blog post, or an otherwise interesting article of prose. You didn’t realize it, but so much mystery, so much anticipation has amassed behind your new friendship, a cosmos-load of potential energy. You didn’t know it — you were too engaged with the mind behind the words — but through all the sentences, the pages, the lovely, lonely hours past, a part of you secretly longed for a flesh-and-blood friend with whom you could share your experience. When you meet your friend, you’ve met an instant confidant. You unburden yourselves on one another, reliving the adventures, revisiting those daunting and glorious experiences you dearly miss, refining and refreshing your perspective in the silver gazing pool of another soul, one that’s triumphed through similar loneliness. Book-bonding is soul-mating, pre-arranged through art.”
—Bryan Basamanowicz, in “From the Library of your Soul-Mate: The Unique Social Bond of Literature,” for The Millions
May
16
“My co-worker noticed that I had some downtime at work, and suggested that I start my own tumblr using literary quotes. I really liked the idea, but then I realized that a quote from literature can be so much more appealing if it has a photo of Joan Holloway attached to it. So that’s how the idea of Slaughterhouse 90210 was born. (Rejected blog titles: Full House of Mirth, Catch-227).
“As the blog evolved over the years, my main goal became getting books back into pop culture discussions right alongside Mad Men and Jersey Shore. In my own little way I wanted to propagate the notion that books are still a vital part of the way we live now.”
—Maris Kreizman, to Bullett Magazine, on the inspiration for her Slaughterhouse 90210
May
15
How a Book is Born.
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