When the author describes a character’s appearance way too late and you have to quickly redesign the image you already have for them in your head:

Here’s the thing to remember about anti-racist book lists:

Read these, yes. But then read books that were not written as treatises on racism. Seek out Black art not only because it can teach you something about race but because Black people are simply doing extraordinary work.

Read Morrison as much for her prose and her mastery of pacing as for her politics. Read Ross Gay’s Book of Delights, an ode to little wonders and a reminder to look at the world with gratitude. Read Elizabeth Alexander’s stunning testament to grief and marriage, The Light of the World, and note the innovations in form as she mixes memoir with poetry and recipes, a collage meant to mirror her late husband’s paintings. Read NK Jemisin’s The Fifth Season and marvel at the worlds she builds.

Just a small reminder. Black art does not exist solely to educate non-Black people. Always be expanding your horizons.

You should be outraged. You should be enraged and if you are not, if the senseless killing of the black community at the hands of our police force does not anger you please reevaluate your humanity.

To be unmoved by the current issues of our society is a privilege. To prioritize looting and damage to property over lost black lives and police brutality is to lack humanity.

Please evaluate and educate yourself, this is a major issue and we need serious reform and revolution in this country.

You can’t love the Romantics and academia and remain ignorant and complacent.

Photos taken from @thetogfather on Instagram

Old books in Michael Moon’s Bookshop, Whitehaven.

my sister made an ephemera wall in her room and this is the result :)

Me: “I want to read a book.”

My Brain: Then read one...?

Me:

give me the old-school love. write me letters. leave me random notes. kiss my hands. slow dance with me. write a poem. lie down with me on the grass. read to me.

"hello love, my invincible friend"

A girl I drew for a poster competition on “The Benefits of Reading”! 

The skirt is a photo of an actual real-life book btw.

looking for content on a series you haven’t finished and accidentally getting spoiled:

28.06.2020 Thunderstorms, pouring rain, lights on at 3pm, rereading books I loved as a child, and perhaps later, getting lost in my own writing.

As a sincere bibliophile, I can relate so hard to this. Poor woman.

ill be back again.......... someday

Louise Glück

almost bought a typewriter from an antique shop today

My house is turning into a natural historic museum, I guess

11.06.2020 My aesthetic is old paperbacks, inky fingers, thrift-shop art in gilt frames, dried flowers, and rumpled sheets.

🖤📚