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Fairy Tale Friday: Imaginary Places2 comments

Corey wrote 5 days ago: One of my favorite books (and one which I am thankful for, on an incidental but timely sidenote), is … more →

Tags: Fairy Tale Friday, Fantasy, Castles, Fairies, Hogwarts, imaginary places

[Thursday 3pm #27] Quotes From The Library At Night3 comments

Nathan Hobby wrote 2 months ago: Alberto Manguel’s The Library At Night examines books, reading and the library through a serie … more →

Tags: Books, Libraries, Quotes, Reading, Thursday 3pm feature posts

Sleepy notes!

sourceunkown wrote 2 months ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Manguel & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dictionary_of_Im … more →

Tags: notes, the lands of, Sleep and Dreams, imaginary places

What's on your desk?

Mei Yau wrote 4 months ago: I found this drawing yesterday when I was going through my notebook collection. In January 2006 I wa … more →

Tags: Art, Pictures], Life and culture, {posted by Mei Yau}, The Library at Night, Drawings

A reading diary by Alberto Manguel

Sharon (thesunlitdesk) wrote 5 months ago: I will sleep one night in the library to make the space truly mine. C. says that this is equivalent … more →

Tags: Non-Fiction, books about books, Rating, 5-star, Reviews, Books, A reading diary

The library at night by Alberto Manguel

Sharon (thesunlitdesk) wrote 6 months ago: The library at night, by Alberto Manguel. Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading … more →

Tags: Non-Fiction, books about books, Rating, 5-star, Reviews, Books, Libraries

About Writing

carolynhayesuber wrote 7 months ago: My colleague Geoff Schumacher recently presented a workshop on journalism for the Las Vegas Writers … more →

Tags: Books, writing, Reading, Geoff Schumacher, Las Vegas, Stephens Press, howard hughes, Citylife, Curiosity

Reading Provenance - Organic Reading

wesleybolin wrote 7 months ago:   I’ve been thinking a lot today about why I read the things we read, and that’s how this came about … more →

Tags: Books, Public Library, Organic Reading, Vonnegut, Solzhenitsyn, suzanne collins, John Green, nick hornby, M.T. Anderson

The Dictionary Of Imaginary Places

Dae wrote 9 months ago: The Dictionary of Imaginary Places ::sigh:: I do love this book. I remember when I first got it. Fel … more →

Tags: pop culture, Dictionary of Imaginary Places, Gianni Guadalupe, guide book, Narnia, Pellucidar, sleeping beauty, Snow Queen

Library meditations, and a new arts project

classicalgreg wrote 1 year ago: Began the other day to read Alberto Manguel’s The Library at Night, and already I find it capt … more →

Tags: Literature, media, Arts Criticism, bibliophilia, Libraries, Palm Beach ArtsPaper, Palm Beach County

Aghwee the Sky Monster2 comments

karlo mikhail wrote 1 year ago: In an interview published in the Winter 2007 issue of The Paris Review, Nobel Prize-winning writer K … more →

Tags: Books, Literature, fathers and sons, Short Story, Japan, Aghwee the Sky Monster, Kenzaburō Ōe, Japanese Literature, anthology

The Library Show 1 comment

Kristal wrote 1 year ago: Attention bibliophiles! You won’t want to miss today’s To the Best of Our Knowledge-The … more →

Tags: To The Best Of Our Knowledge, Radio Shows, Libraries, Reading, Ursula Le Guin

Marginalia, no.13

Ian Wolcott wrote 1 year ago: Every reader exists in order to assure for a certain book a modest immortality. ~ Alberto Manguel, T … more →

Tags: marginalia, Books, Levity, Quotes, Reading, The Library at Night

Bibliophiles - Mashing up books, authors and literary characters1 comment

Donna wrote 1 year ago: I’ve just read a delicious review in The Observer called The Romantic Librarian. It looks at A … more →

Tags: Books, Authors, Comedy, Donna, Jasper Fforde, emma tennant, Anne Fadiman, bibliophiles

The Great Reader3 comments

rw wrote 1 year ago: “I wouldn’t define myself as a writer. I would define myself as a reader.” I like this statement bec … more →

Tags: Books, Reading, Book Reviews

Mary Magdalene - reading

wjjgibson wrote 2 years ago: In my recent reading, I have encountered plots that involve directly or indirectly Mary Magdelene. W … more →

Tags: Books, Javier Sierra, Libraries, Literature, Mary Magdalene, Novel, Reading, Writers

Alberto Manguel - two books you would enjoy

wjjgibson wrote 2 years ago: Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires in 1948, was educated there, and was a friend of Jorge Luis … more →

Tags: book bag, Libraries, Literature, Reading, Writers


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