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outofprintclothing:

Lit News You Can Use: Nov 16 - books in your seat! 

unypl:

“The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” by Milan Kundera

Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim

Borrow I Read

bookish-thoughts:

This Evenings Bliss (by Gareth83cdf)

hungry-for-books:

thebookishdark:

50 Books for Eleven-Year-Olds

Added to my to-read list:
-Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
-The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
-The Talking Parcel by Gerald Durrell
-The Beats of Clawstone Castle by Eva Ibbotson
-Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
-The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall
-Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kastner
-The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (own it!)
-The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
-Boy by Roald Dahl
-The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbit
-The Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff
-The Silver Sword/Escape from Warsaw by Ian Serraillier
-The Sheep-Pig by Dick King-Smith
-The Dark Is Rising Series by Susan Cooper
-The Mozart Question by Michael Morpurgo
-The Pendragon Adventure Series by D.J. MacHale
-Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel
-The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi
-Stig of the Dump by Clive King
-The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner
-Leven Thumps Series by Obert Skye
-A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (only read first book)

I’ve read and love the other twenty-six.  And judging by the quality of the ones I know, the books listed above promise to be new favorites.  What a great list.

P.S. I am obsessed with “old” children’s books.

It seems I have quite a few new books to read.

la-la-la-lines:

Old Hollywood actors reading. 

brstone:

Yes please :) #reading #book #nutella

Gustave Flaubert (via ohwowimamazin)

J.K. Rowling (via justlookingforwonderland)

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littlebookthings:

Submission courtesy of dauntless-rebel-shadowhunter

thelongbournlibrary:

I’m surprised this hasn’t come across my dash since I first read it last week, but it might be of interest to fellow readers here: Stanford researchers tested the difference between casual and close reading by having students read a chapter of Mansfield Park while their brains were being scanned.

Phillips said the global increase in blood flow during close reading suggests that “paying attention to literary texts requires the coordination of multiple complex cognitive functions.” Blood flow also increased during pleasure reading, but in different areas of the brain. Phillips suggested that each style of reading may create distinct patterns in the brain that are “far more complex than just work and play.”

Worth a full read if you’re interested.

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littlebookthings:

Submission courtesy of anon