My name is Kat. I'm 24 and I live in California. I love reading and writing. This blog is mainly composed of stuff that inspires me and my obsession with books, with a dash of fangirling about favorite ships and TV shows. Ask me anything you like.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
A new vending machine has been released which can print any book within minutes.
The Espresso Book Machine has access to 500,000 different books - the same as 23.6 miles of shelf space - and can even churn out a fresh copy of Crime and Punishment in just nine minutes.
Pages are printed at a rate of over 100 per minute and are then pressed, glued and cut to produce a pristine book.
Users simply pick the book they would like on a screen and wait for it to be printed … it certainly is a novel way of getting a new book.
‘until we get the heart of the sun-‘
When we say that we love a writer’s work, we are always stretching the truth: what we really mean is that we love about half of it. Sometimes rather more than half, sometimes rather less. The vast presence of Joyce relies pretty well entirely on “Ulysses,” with a little help from “Dubliners.” You could jettison Kafka’s three attempts at full-length fiction (unfinished by him, and unfinished by us) without muffling the impact of his seismic originality. George Eliot gave us one readable book, which turned out to be the central Anglophone novel. Every page of Dickens contains a paragraph to warm to and a paragraph to veer back from. Coleridge wrote a total of two major poems (and collaborated on a third). Milton consists of “Paradise Lost.” Even my favorite writer, William Shakespeare, who usually eludes all mortal limitations, succumbs to this law. Run your eye down the contents page and feel the slackness of your urge to reread the comedies (“As You Like It” is not as we like it); and who would voluntarily curl up with “King John” or “Henry VI, Part III”?
Have you noticed how the 10th Doctor eventually got Rose’s adorable ‘tick’ of putting the tongue up against the teeth? :)
Best shipper ever <3
(Source: but-first-we-will-live)
If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads.
Sherman Alexie (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
(Source: cerseilannister)
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein (via wrists)
