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Ángel González (via excessivebookshelf)

laphamsquarterly:

Happy 200th Birthday, Charles Dickens!

2012. This is it. The year the world is supposed to end. (Again.) But this is the big time, people. The real deal. Or whatever. So in celebration I’ve decided that I want to read a doomsday book a month. Metaphysics, historical, current affairs, fiction, ect.

The selection for January is, “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl” by Daniel Pinchbeck. Why? I already own it.

The forthcoming months will be voted on via a poll that I’ll link to. Discuss the book as frequently or infrequently as you wish either here, or at this message board. (But send me a note if you wish to register at Bibliographica because I have to manually approve everyone.)

So… who’s in?

rhymeswithnothing:

meloukhia:

Hey, you! Yes, you. 

I know there are a lot of demands for charity at this time of year, but this happens to be one of my most favourite causes: Getting books into the hands of kids who need them. My local independent bookstore has an annual Book Angel programme that provides brand new shiny books to low-income children. 

There are four more days to be a Book Angel, and they happily accept online donations. So please, go forth and donate, if you can. 

Thanks. 

This is essentially at least half of my job, y’all. Support!

(Source: se-smith, via cabell)

thedailywhat:

Cheeseburger Wrapping Paper of the Day: Just in time for Christmahanakwanzika, Sarah Fay and Justin Colt’s Gift Couture — “a start-up creative and innovative wrapping paper company” — introduces the mouth-watering Cheeseburger wrapping paper set.

They’re still several thousand dollars shy of their Kickstarter goal from making this available to the wrapping public, but, for a pledge of $20 or more (plus $8 for international shipping), they’ll send you one complete set of Cheeseburger wrapping paper.

$40 gets you 2 complete sets, and $60 gets you 3. $300 gets you 10, plus a “hand-crafted golden cheeseburger trophy.”

Come on. You know you want that trophy.

[szymon.]

booksandnerds:

(By: anthonyturducken)

(via excessivebookshelf)

Book for Book by BetterWorld.com

thedailywhat:

Book Trailer of the Day: Procrastinate a little while longer and watch this video about procrastination, which is actually a smart promotion for David McRaney’s new book You Are Not So Smart — “a book about all the wonderful ways you delude yourself everyday.”

[devour.]

(Source: worldscollapsin, via excessivebookshelf)

crookedindifference:

Sparsile:

adj.
of a star, not included in any constellation

Via SaveTheWords.org, a project that aims to save words that are no longer used and candidates for being dropped from the Oxford English Dictionary.