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"I just started reading 1984 by George Orwell….Technically, I haven’t started the first page yet but I did put a bookmark in it. I bookmarked this bitch so I feel like I’m on my way." - oh my god I love this and I do the same thing. It does count for something. 

FRIDAY READS!

New Arrivals: First American Edition of Tolkien’s THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (1954). In the correct first printing dust jacket with the fold-out map of Middle Earth intact.

First volume of what is likely the most significant trilogy of books written in the last century. The first printing in the US was bound from British sheets, only 1,500 copies. A harder book than you might expect in the correct dust jacket, as points changed between the first 10 or so printings, and people are overly-fond of swapping dust jackets from later printings onto first printing books.

Tsk tsk…

gotchaa..

My favorite kind of morning.

The 50 Best Independent Fiction and Poetry Books of 2014

2014 will go down as a landmark year in independent literature, chiefly because a few longstanding "trends" or "developments" are hardening into verifiable traits of fiction and poetry beyond Big P...

The life of a bookworm.

I love to browse the Q section of the stacks - growing up on Bill Nye the Science Guy, I have a healthy appreciation for the general sciences! This interesting book really caught my eye, as there are a wide variety of images made me want to learn more about it. Published in 1636, here is Delicia Physic-Mathematicae, a book about scientific recreations and ideas for inventions. Daniel Schwenter (Schwender) is the author of this book, and he was also a mathematician, inventor, poet, and librarian!

Want to read this entire book? Check it out on Google Books!

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-Lindsay M.

My year reading a book from every country in the world

Ann Morgan considered herself well read -- until she discovered the "massive blindspot" on her bookshelf. Amid a multitude of English and American authors, there were very few books from beyond the English-speaking world. So she set an ambitious goal: to read one book from every country in the world over the course of a year. Now she's urging other Anglophiles to read translated works so that publishers will work harder to bring foreign literary gems back to their shores. Explore interactive maps of her reading journey here: go.ted.com/readtheworld

Life goals.