Nobody understands the bond between a girl and the mediocre book she read when she was 13 years old.

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own [originally published 1929]

ajaneofallreads on Instagram

“Nick and Charlie! Are the two of you coming, or-Oh. You're being gay. Good job. Carry on.” ― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper - Volume 3

reading + kitties

*gives you a book with a pressed flower bookmark*

who knew i absolutely needed to visit a bookstore that extended to the outside 📖🍂

"Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else."

― William Faulkner

We are captives of what we love, what we desire and what we are

- Mahmoud Darwish

how many books do I want to read? all of them. there is no limit. my frail body will one day be crushed under the weight of my tbr pile and my mind will rejoice at all the lives I have lived, at all the new words that I have learnt and yet there will still be more books that I wish to read. i am simply a gaping chasm that only books can fill.

the act of wintering

Tragic

April 10, 1927 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

“Is there anything better than iced coffee and a bookstore on a sunny day? I mean, aside from hot coffee and a bookstore on a rainy day.”

Emily Henry, Book Lovers

DTF —

Down

To

Forget our responsibilities and read in bed together

Book 472

Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s

Adam Rowe

Abrams 2023

Another new book from Abrams. We’ve gotten to the point in publishing where, if you’re like me and like large-format art books, you need to get used to the idea of buying them when they are released. Fewer and fewer publishers are taking the risk of releasing art books, and they are staying in print for shorter and shorter periods of time. So, when I heard about this book, I made a point of getting myself a copy, and I’m glad I did. While my preference in vintage book cover art leans more toward the pulp era, it is the 70s covers that I find myself the most familiar and nostalgic. Featuring some all-time greats—Frazetta, Vallejo, Elson, Emshwiller, Mead, the Dillons, et al—and divided into subject categories such as spaceships, cities and landscapes, plants, animals, aliens, fantasy realms, and cryptozoology, this is a beautiful and very welcome look at an incredibly creative, experimental, and occasionally ridiculous sci-fi decade.