Via teaching literacy.‘Last Bookstore’ downtown Los Angeles
one of the best book stores in Los Angeles
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BYOB (Bring Your Own Books)
I just want to get an open space to build a fort with some friends and place piles of books in the center. Then we could just stay up all night just reading while eating snacks and drinking hot tea.
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Via teaching literacy.If you want people to leave you alone then appearing to be crazy is a good thing. If you’re walking down the street talking to yourself people tend to give you a wide berth! But I’ve always been blessed with being easily ignored or avoided. I think maybe it’s because people think I look a little crazy.
- Tim Burton (via timburtonsblog)
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Too often, library workers are seen as passive drones doing uncomplicated and routine tasks that require no decision-making or learning. Library work, after all, is service performed for others. Libraries are just as innovative and forward-looking as IT organizations, and we are responsive to our users, perhaps to a fault. Yet it’s not because we are by nature passive. It’s because we know the library is not there for us, it’s there for the community we serve. That may be how IT folks think of their work, but I don’t get that impression. They seem to be seen as entrepreneurial problem-solvers and engineers with special skills.
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That terrifying feeling when you are finishing a book and THERE AREN’T ENOUGH PAGES LEFT FOR ALL OF THE THINGS THAT NEED TO HAPPEN.
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“The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry, and I think it’s one of the reasons that some people don’t like the books, but I think that it’s a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.”
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J.K. Rowling, novelist (b. 1965)
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Via BOOK RIOTI would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.
- James D. Sass (via booksandnerds)
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We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.
- E. Merrill Root (via flikka)
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If our lives could be measured in the amount of pages we have read, how much would you be worth?
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