I’ll Be Honest: I Really Just Picked This Book Because The Cover Is Amazing.  Although This Beautiful,

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I mainly read YA because I have a PhD in literature and I need the complexity and emotion to remain intellectually engaged, but sometimes I do like to relax with an adult book. It’s nice to rest my mind with long descriptions and philosophical digressions and to read about feelings like ambivalence and activities like elder care. I really enjoy Tom Robbins’ Jitterbug Perfume because he writes so well about vegetables before he gets to the sexy bits.

E. Lockhart via YA Authors On Their Favorite Adult Books (via flavorwire)

150th anniversary edition| Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Salvador Dali.

The challenge was to find a dusty book in the store with an unassuming cover.

The Best Way Books

Numbers 2, 3 & 4

My favorite kind of morning.

I've been spending far too much of my time trying to learn medieval illumination techniques

one of my first semi-successful attempts at fore edge painting! done on an old paperback of aesop's fables.

+ some glamour shots:

I just remembered that my “new” book in the other room is actually a fricken library book!! My brain makes me think I own all the books. 

Kitty feet.