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Theodora trying to decide what to read next.
Do you have any rules or guidelines for determining what you should read next?
For me, when picking something, I frequently pick something from a category or area that's different from the book I just read. I also might factor in how long it's been on my TBR list. However, there's been times I don't strictly follow these, and go with something that just catches my interest.
#TuxedoCats #catsandbooks

Checked out a super cute bookstore on our way home today!

“Life is too short to waste on reading a book you‘re not enjoying…you should give a book fifty pages. But if you‘re over the age of fifty, take your age and subtract it from a hundred. So, if you‘re seventy, give the book thirty pages. “

Entertaining vignettes of the lives of librarians, and bookstore owners/employees from across the US.

#Read2025 #LitsyAtoZ #Pantone2025

This is based loosely on a real life Underground Library established in Bethnal Green station,& all the community building activities /events that occurred there.The “found family” group of women the novel follows over the course of a year (1939-1940), are transformed by the challenges of the bombing during the Blitz,sustaining the library underground,reading aloud as a community bookclub,& as a consequence,creating an ever expanding community.

#publiclibraries #librarybook

I won a Prize in my library‘s summer reading program! Such a fun surprise!

AMEN...

I emerge from lurk to diss this bibliophilic classic. What the summaries, wikipedia, and most reviewers don't tell you is that Blades was a Caxton-obsessed misogynistic prick, and his book is mostly hearsay and hyperbole. It wasn't a waste of my time because I tracked down some anecdotes that are now presented as verified facts and cleared up some history, but I did spend a long time wanting to slug the man.

Im sure some of you have been there but I was just in the Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal which is dubbed one of the most beautiful book stores in the world - cost 10 euro to get in but it was beautiful. The rumor (which isn‘t true) is that JK Rowling based her Hogwarts library on it bc she had lived in Porto. Even though it‘s not true - still fun to pretend and appreciate how pretty this little store is. 💕📚

Fun little cartoon collection around the theme of books and literature.
Perfect palate cleanser for relaxing. Of course, some are better than others, but I'm always impressed by the imagination it takes to create so many vignettes.