This weeks #LibraryWonderland comes from Cloud Crystals, an album dedicated to snow-flakes by Mrs. Frances E. Chickering, with illustrations by J.F. RIchardson. Part scientific explanation and part literary expression, this volume sings the praises of all the unique stellated forms of snow.
Mrs. Frances E. Chickering. Cloud Crystals. New York: Appleton and Companyy, 1883.
LOVE THIS!!!
Don’t Go Into the Library
Alberto Ríos - 1952-
The library is dangerous—
Don’t go in. If you do
You know what will happen.
It’s like a pet store or a bakery—
Every single time you’ll come out of there
Holding something in your arms.
Those novels with their big eyes.
And those no-nonsense, all muscle
Greyhounds and Dobermans,
All non-fiction and business,
Cuddly when they’re young,
But then the first page is turned.
The doughnut scent of it all, knowledge,
The aroma of coffee being made
In all those books, something for everyone,
The deli offerings of civilization itself.
The library is the book of books,
Its concrete and wood and glass covers
Keeping within them the very big,
Very long story of everything.
The library is dangerous, full
Of answers. If you go inside,
You may not come out
The same person who went in.
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As you probably already know, either if you know me personally or if you got here by accident and read a couple things I wrote, you know I love books. So I thought I would share a little bit of my personal collection (which, sadly, is not very big).
I have both physical and digital books. Most of my physical were gifted to me, and most of my digital are pdf’s someone forwarded to me. I…
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