25 Awesome Minimalist Book Covers
”….Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who said “A designer knows that he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” Click through to feast your eyes our gallery of amazing minimalist book covers, and let us know if we missed your favorite in the comments.”
15 Summer Reads Handpicked By Indie Booksellers
and two of them I worked on: The Mark Inside and Mr. G! Check it out!
I love the summer book listicle season.
**I’m sitting on a beach. I’m reading one of these…**
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This 50 Shades of Grey thing is perfectly fun to sit back and watch.
But it’s an interesting library discussion. The book isn’t only being challenged or removed—it isn’t being made available in the first place. Librarians and library leaders are choosing not to include the book in the collection. If the library purchased the book, like they did in Flordia, they’re now going back and pulling it after reading reviews (though not before reading the book itself).
Discuss?
Source: thelifeguardlibrarian
Finnegans Wake, Ulysses, etc manuscripts now online
Thank you to the always-classy, always-wonderful Arielle Sallai for finding this.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Since 2007, Alex Johnson has kept a daily record of the closely followed world of bookshelf design with his blog simply titled “Bookshelf”. Faced with the e-book revolution and the downsizing of physical storage, the furniture staple remains a beloved component of the home, evolving from floor piles and mundane shelves to be embraced as a design object reflecting the spirit of the collector as well as the books themselves. Johnson’s new book, also called “Bookshelf”, curates the contemporary state of the household item as both a design and storage piece.
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“They roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.”
-Where the Wild Things Are, 1983
Maurice Sendak
10 June 1928- 8 May 2012
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Source: abookblog
From their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions—fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.
Maurice Sendak passed away at age 83. He will be missed. For a candid look at the author, I highly recommend the Spike Jonze documentary Tell Them Anything You Want, filmed while the two collaborated on the adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are. There’s enough wisdom and wit here to fill a library.
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George Orwell’s 1984: Victory Coffee commercial
Minority Report in the Making?
“In 1956, Philip K. Dick’s short story “The Minority Report” was published which would later be adapted into the 2002 box office film Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise. The story follows a world in which murder has been eliminated by using mutated humans who can predict murders before they occur, allowing police to arrest the future offender before they kill. It sounds like nothing more than just another sci-fi movie but was something being developed in the early 1990’s.”
