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airships and waves
all for tongues and sleepwalkers
Anonymous asked:
What are some of your favorite books?
The Tiger’s Wife - Téa Obreht
Touch - Alexi Zentner
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
As For Me and My House - Sinclair Ross
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Necessary Secrets: The Journals of Elizabeth Smart - Edited by Alice Van Wart
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Chorus of Mushrooms - Hiromi Goto
This was such a great question, I hope you like some of my suggestions! Thank you so much!
(This was in not in order of rank but instead in the random order Goodreads chose.)
The sound is lonely, and low, and no one hears it anymore.
Birth of a Book
Beautiful video of traditional pre-press, offset print to produce hand-bound books.
Glen Milner produced this book-binding vignette at Smith-Settle Printers in Leeds, England as the binders bound Suzanne St Albans’ Mango and Mimosa.
Alexi Zentner’s dedication in Touch
Eventually, my grandfather said: ‘You must understand, this is one of those moments.’
‘What moments?’
‘One of those moments you keep to yourself,’ he said.
‘What do you mean?’ I said. ‘Why?’
‘We’re in a war,’ he said. ‘The story of this war - dates, names, who started it, why - that belongs to everyone. Not just the people involved in it, but the people who write newspapers, politicians thousands of miles away, people who’ve never even been here or heard of it before. But something like this - this is yours. It belongs only to you. And me. Only to us.’
it’s time to read these again
One of the most remarkable novels that I have ever read - family mythology, Canadian mythology, all of it dark and magical and wonderful.
And then, for the millionth time in the history of feeling, the heart surges, and absorbs the impact.
Margaret Atwood in Studio Q
Discussing Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Utopianism, Dystopianism, and Batman.
I think Craig Mod is one of the most interesting designers working today. Previously the lead designer for Flipboard for iPhone (which is fantastic), he’s currently a MacDowell Writing Fellow working on the future of the books. I like the way Craig writes and talks and most importantly, I like the way he thinks. His career has largely focused on what future books could look like and the experience that shapes them.
His recent talk at the Build Conference is a great look into what books can be and how to bring the nostalgia we associate with physical books into the digital space. We often speak about the artifact or the interface of future books but here, Craig argues what will be most important—most nourishing—is keeping that nostalgia and experience and romanticism as books go digital. I highly recommend this one.
If you watch nothing else today, take two minutes to watch this breathtaking labour of love: a stop-motion film of books playing after closing time.
(via cozybooknook)
(via barefootpirate)
(Source: helsinki-syndrome, via helllord)
