1. booklover:

    My copy of the New Annotated Sherlock Holmes Volume 1: Short Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

    My life is complete now. It doesn’t introduce the long stories “A Study in Scarlet”, “The Sing of Four” and “The Hound of the Baskervilles” but only the short stories under the titles The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Other features in this copy are the short biographies of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, original illustrations of Sidney Paget from Strand Magazine, conspiracy theories on Holmes, Moriarty and Irene Adler, information about several things mentioned in the stories and London between 1880s-1900s (you really breathe the Victorian atmosphere and feel like you are actually wandering at the streets of London thanks to these great illustrations of Sidney Paget), etc. So it is almost a full package for Sherlockians. Mine is the Turkish translation and the English copy may be seen here: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/436268.The_New_Annotated_Sherlock_Holmes_Volume_I

  4. Amazing 3D Book Collages Bring Classic Stories to Life

    (Source: unicorn-meat-is-too-mainstream, via reinventthewheel)

  5. geliebtejane: I made a new Jane Austen themed bookmark :) Lovely.

    geliebtejane:

    I made a new Jane Austen themed bookmark :)

    Lovely.

    (via booklover)

  6. dyingofcute: Le Bouquiniste

    dyingofcute:

    Le Bouquiniste

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  7. wordpainting:

    Excellent film

    (Source: belikvs)

  8. Letters of Note: Damn you all to hell»

    Did you know Tom Hanks collects typewriters?

  9. Springtime @ Shakespeare & Company

    Springtime @ Shakespeare & Company

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. (Harper Lee)

I nearly always write, just as I nearly always breathe.
(John Steinbeck)

When I don’t write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.
(Anaïs Nin)

With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.
(Haruki Murakami)

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
(Carlos Ruiz Zafón)

He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was its old illegible date, the bizarre and strange Gothic characters, the heavy gilding which loaded its drawings. It was its pages covered with dust — dust of which he breathed the sweet and tender perfume with delight.
(Gustave Flaubert)

I whispered the thrilling words to myself, then lifted the book to my nose and breathed the ink from its pages. The scent of possibilities.
(Kate Morton)



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