@aworkinglibrary Today, as she celebrates the quinceanera of her blog, I realised that she also:

• is an awesome people herder 1
• is one of the forces behind #ABookApart 2
• is one of the leading lights of Web Design world
• has put in time as a suit (CEO)

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#AWorkingLibrary #Reading #Writing #Books

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All I knew about @aworkinglibrary when I began following her a year ago is

• she has a doggie called Furiosa
• she thinks about books the way I do. 1
• she reads books and then writes about reading them, the way I always dreamed I could.
• she’s a prominent member of my circle of the #EminentDead 2

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#AWorkingLibrary #Reading #Writing #Books

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Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/melodysbookhaven/715971128570560512

#Books #Reading

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#books, #reading

#Books #Reading #TomGauld

https://www.tumblr.com/myjetpack/717921448736538624/my-cartoon-for-yesterdays-guardian-books

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Oh my Verne!

Look what came!
Thank you #BookSanta 😬😁

(Also ♥️ the way the gilt edge reflects light )

#SteamPunk #mjbReading #Reading #Books #EarlySciFi #SciFi #Fantasy

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To read a book for the first time in one’s maturity is an extraordinary pleasure, different from (though one cannot say greater or lesser than) the pleasure of having read it in one’s youth.

— Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

https://www.tumblr.com/the-hearth-and-the-wild/715624065178714112/to-read-a-book-for-the-first-time-in-ones

#Reading #Books

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I was an adventurer, a traveler, a magic student; God, I was whole. drunk on words for hours….being pulled out at twilight by my mother’s voice, calling me for dinner. eating in a daze, sneaking back up the stairs to fall back in love. minutes and hours and midnight…falling asleep, book clutched in my hand.

you want to know what I’m missing?

when time was our friend.

https://www.tumblr.com/waitingforthesunrise/717857308558901248/you-want-to-know-what-im-missing-the-sense-of

#Reading #Books

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Here’s what I read last week (rather over the past couple of weeks)

43. What Child is This?, Bonnie MacBird
44. Make Something Wonderful, Steve Jobs
45. Blood, Sweat & Chrome, Kyle Buchanan
46. Starfish, Peter Watts

The rest of this year’s list is here:
https://janusworx.com/reading/#2023

#mjbReads #Books #mjbBooks #Reading #mjbReading

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Here’s what I read last week (rather over the past couple of weeks)

36. An Oral History of Lilo & Stitch, Bilge Ebiri
37. The First Man in Rome, Colleen McCullough
38. The Grass Crown, Colleen McCullough
39. Art in the Blood, Bonnie MacBird
40. Unquiet Spirits, Bonnie MacBird
41. The Devil’s Due, Bonnie MacBird
42. The Three Locks, Bonnie MacBird

The rest of this year’s list is here:
https://janusworx.com/reading/#2023

#mjbReads #Books #mjbBooks #Reading #mjbReading

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Amazon has amazing reading instructions for this book, I’m perusing …

#books #reading #bookshopping

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