Caught two commuters reading on the bus early in the AM! Camouflaged in the center of the photo is Nike founder Phil Knight‘s memoir #ShoeDog; top right is #CatcherintheRye by J. D. Salinger—the classic subway read.

To My Beloved Affianced:
Prepare to face defeat at every turn.
#missmanners #emilypost

“... but in the end I argued myself into solid indecision.” YUP.

Contender for Most Important Book You Will Ever Read.

#mustread #friendship

Never have I wanted to be named Doris as much as I do right now!

#kidlit #dinosaurs

Standing room only at Greenlight Bookstore for a discussion with Brian Platzer to celebrate the launch of his EXCELLENT and timely debut novel exploring the tensions between white and black families after an African American boy is killed by the police in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood of Brooklyn.

#debut #brooklyn #blacklivesmatter

It's Henry David Thoreau's birthday! It might not exactly *celebrate* his work, but Kathryn Schulz's October 2015 critique of 'Walden' for The New Yorker is a must-read any day of the year: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/pond-scum

#walden #thoreau #birthday #onthisday #mustread

If there exists any task as pleasurable and reorganizing one's #bookshelves I have yet to hear of it.

#bookshelfie #bookshelf

Looking forward to 'Moonlight' director Barry Jenkins's film adaptation of the novel 'If Beale Street Could Talk' by James Baldwin. The project was announced today!

#jamesbaldwin #blacklit #booktofilm

The interlude of the Swallow and the Reed is one of my favorite vignettes by Oscar Wilde, from his children's allegory 'The Happy Prince'

#OscarWilde #allegory #kidlit