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will read for food
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notes from a bookseller-at-large
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thoughts on Shakespeare’s King John
(After seeing the BBC production on DVD) Oddly enough, King John is nearly the least interesting character in it. He doesn’t really come into his own until Acts IV and V, when things are going seriously downhill for him. But I suppose that’s par for the course in Shakespeare. It...
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The Library of Matthias Corvinus, The Raven King
How is it that I never knew one of the greatest libraries amassed in Europe during the Renaissance–second only to the collection of the Medicis and the Pope, belonged to an all but forgotten Hungarian king, Matthais Hunyadi, also known as Matthias Corvinus, the Raven King? The man whom Italy...
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My room(s) full of books
Library Tour from Nicki Leone on Vimeo.
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the 351 books of irma arcuri
This book was one long biblio-fantasy: great literature, re-bound with a writer’s love for the story within, an artist’s eye, an artisan’s care and feel for the beauty in the volume, seeded with secret messages, stories and codes, all written from one disappeared lover to the man she left behind....
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the fisherman
The man stands in the empty lot, practicing his casting. He looks like the dictionary definition of fisherman— old trucker’s cap, heavy flannel shirt, muddy jeans— work boots, though, not waders, planted on the earth. His fly fishing pole gleams, it’s the shiniest thing about him. His arm draws back,...
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