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National Library of Latvia
Riga
"Looking at the building we see an intriguing form. It is visually attractive to us. What is it like? It is expressive. It is a library, a functional symbol. It is a reminder of an outstanding historical event, important for Latvia, the making of its statehood, as well as praise to the rebirth of the state and its renewed collections of cultural treasures.
The linear nature of words fail to describe fully the three dimensional architectural shape. As to the expressivity the form has many meanings.
To perceive its meaning, it we have to return to the feelings and intuition that accompanied the moment of creation." (the architect Gunars Birkerts about the idea of the project)
If you love books, you won´t ever be able to leave this place....just don´t sit down! Go and find your way through the labyrinths!
“Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.”
Walter Moers
Make sure to check out this amazing sim inspired by Walter Moers´ Zamonia series:
your uber to The Empire of Dreaming Books
Maybe you´ll even find this one if you look close enough:
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It will be exiting to share your opinions ... :-))
.... published today 09.06.2016 :
Here is the link for who may be interested to have a closer look and insight :
www.blurb.com/books/7161238-thoughts
THOUGHTS holistic photography Von Axel vom Scheidt Buchvorschau
Enjoy the reading !
“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
Been pondering why we see so little still life in B&W, I'm guessing it's because it's not always immediately eye catching so maybe doesn't attract as many likes! Oh well, I like it :)
Why not head over to the Definitely Dreaming blog and check out the Free Photography Course
Why do we love reading books? Is it because we can explore other worlds or because through them we can escape our own?
Maybe we just like that we can always bookmark a page and return to it anytime we want...
Life doesn't give us this... life is an adventure we cannot pause...
We can just live, learn from experiences, have fun as much as we can... and hope to enrich this adventure we call life.
The one on top is a book of poetry given to my father by his mother. The inscription is dated 1946.
The bottom book is about Earth Sciences and was owned by my grandfather, signed and dated 1903.
FYI: the combined thickness of the books is 6 cm.
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They just belong together.
Stadtbibliothek am Mailänder Platz, Stuttgart, Germany.
Design (1999): Eun Young Yi.
Crazy Tuesday theme Libraries and Books
Books to read to my grandsons.
Thanks for all your kind comments and favs.
Taken on the first floor of Bromley House Library, Nottingham, 2018 - Bromley House is a private subscription library founded in 1816.
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radiant .l. dylan john sparkes
youtu.be/yo2oo2zxTss?si=sDowKZze_fcso5Yz
Time slips through our fingers,
like water in a cracked glass.
We wait for the minutes to settle,
but they never do.
Yesterday is a shadow
in the corner of today,
a ghost that lingers
in the dimming light,
its whispers etched
on the diaries of memory.
And tomorrow is a tide,
pulling the present toward its shore,
never stopping, never still,
yet always just beyond reach—
a promise, a mirage,
woven from the threads of longing.
The clock hands march,
relentless as fate,
while we chase the echoes
of moments already lost,
and dream of those
not yet born.
by bes~• January 2025
Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mughīrah ibn Bardizbah al-Ju‘fī al-Bukhārī 19 July 810 – 1 September 870), or Bukhārī, commonly referred to as Imam al-Bukhari or Imam Bukhari, was a Persian Islamic scholar who was born in Bukhara (the capital of the Bukhara Region (viloyat) of Uzbekistan). He authored the hadith collection known as Sahih al-Bukhari, regarded by Sunni Muslims as one of the most authentic (sahih) hadith collections. He also wrote other books such as Al-Adab al-Mufrad.
Imam al-Bukhari was the great theologian of the East. He collected and recorded about 600 thousand hadith, i.e. legend based on cases of life or some sayings of the Prophet. Out of them, al-Bukhari selected as “flawless” about 7400 hadith to include into the famous “As-Sahih” which became the second most important book after the Koran for the majority of Sunni.
The mausoleum of Imam al-Bukhari presents in all of its magnificence. In the complex that occupies a vast territory, there are mausoleums, mosques, hotel for tourists and pilgrims, souvenir shops and religious literature.
The mausoleum of Imam al-Bukhari is one of the main pilgrimage sites in Uzbekistan. The visiting of three shrines in Samarkand – the mausoleums of al-Bukhari, Shakhi-Zinda and Rukhabad – within one day, is called “small Hajj”.
Books to get by this stay home time
Poem by a Taiwan poet, 周梦蝶
Essay reflecting Growing old and taking care of old parents
3rd book is about a poet in Sung dynasty
some info digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/11117
借りたら返してくださいねー
ってだるそうにしてる図書委員風。
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・AMI:HAI / Midsummer Memories GACHA / M - 1
@ Okinawa Summer Festival'17
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pose props : {Imeka~} My Magic Books