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"I don't want to just read books... I want to crawl inside them and live there."

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Synngery

Muesli

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Deventer has had a very successful past that has made it one of the jewels of the Ijssel that it is today, founded in 768 by an English missionary Lebuinus it received city status in 956 and has never looked back since.

One of the first cities to receive a printing press the city has always had a love for the printed word and hosts the largest book fair in Europe as well as one of the largest Dickens festivals, the Dickens festival regularly attracts 125, 000 to this city of considerably less people.

Being a very bookish city it also established a renowned Latin school that boasted famous graduates like the humanist and theologian Desiderius Erasmus who attended the school as a child.

Deventer’s success from the sea came to a close with the silting up of the river Ijssel in the 16th century forcing the city from the sea trade and cargo management to working with metals and industrial production of everything from cigars to mattresses, today its main industry is central heating manufacture and the famous home to the honey cake.

I took this on September 19th, 2017 with my D750 and Nikon 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens at 38mm 1/6s, f/16 ISO 100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , Luminar and DXO

Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress

" This present moment had no pain, no blot, no want; full, perfect, it deeply blessed me. A passing seraph seemed to have rested beside me, leaned towards my heart, and reposed on its throb a softening, cooling, healing, hallowing wing." {Villette}

This is the second shot in a series; it represents active, engaged reading!

dirty bookish brutalism in piraeus. for more images in the vrbs series, click here

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

― Mark Twain

Contemplating his next novel of enjoyment at The Empire of Dreaming Books

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:: " A book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped by and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself." ::

{Rebecca Mead - My Life in Middlemarch}

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kinda of comic bookish. Thanks for the shutter snap dean!

Another point of view of the same scene

Featured Credits:

♥ Cynful Chase Me (@ Equal10)

♥ Photo taken at SkyDome Rentals

To view complete credits, please visit my blog: slovesadventures.wordpress.com/2024/05/18/bookish/

A few of the books displayed in the library at Attingham Park, Shrewsbury.

The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 9th of August is "multicoloured abstract", which I won’t deny had me flummoxed at first! What on earth could I photograph? Then I remembered a photograph that I took a few weeks ago. It was just by chance that I thought to take it. A friend had been clearing out an estate and came across a rather lovely book of glass published in the 1960s which they thought I might enjoy. I have been enjoying it, but as much for photography purposes as for reading material. I had been photographing the book in the sun, and as a result of being in the pool of warmth, made more intense by the fact it was coming through the my French doors in my sun room, the bindings had begun to distort which made the pages open sightly. I rather liked the fact that some of the pages clumped and others didn't, and that glimpses of the colourful end pages and print could be seen. I thought it made for an interesting abstract as it were. I hope that you like my choice for the theme this week, and that it makes you smile

Of all the things he could play with in the nursery, young Master Jack only had eyes for his brightly painted wooden blocks, and with them, he built a house. It was slightly lopsided, but what it lacked in evenness, was made up with young Master Jack’s enthusiasm.

The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" on the 17th of February is "construction toys". An easy enough theme you would think, and perhaps for you it is. I on the other hand, with no children of my own, and godchildren either too old or too bookish to be interested in such things, have no construction toys. That was until I remembered that I had one set of blocks, but they are not ordinary ones, even if they are made of wood and brightly painted like other types of blocks. If you follow my photostream, you may know that I collect 1:12 size miniatures, some of which have featured in past themes in the "Looking Close on Friday" and "Smile on Saturday" groups. Amongst the thousands of items that make up this collection, I have a set of blocks. The small square blocks are only five millimetres in size as an indication of their minute proportions. I have set them up amidst other toys in an old Edwardian nursery setting with some of the other miniature toys that I have including a pull along wooden rabbit, an indoor croquet set and of course that quintessential Edwardian toy which is as popular today as it was when they were introduced, the teddy bear. I hope you like my choice of image for the theme, and that it makes you smile!

The world was on fire, and no one could save me but you

It's strange what desire will make foolish people do

I never dreamed that I'd meet somebody like you

And I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you

What a wicked game to play to make me feel this way

What a wicked thing to do to let me dream of you

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Sorry, I'm not on much lately -- I apologize to everyone! RL is ...

Meanwhile Winter made this great Halloween Island. No flying but it's got some nice vignettes. This house is about halfway on the island, right after the landing point is a junkyard filled with zombies, and then, of course, there is the graveyard. Oh and of course there's a rockn/roll skeleton band. It's fun and should give you all some good photo ops.

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If you do come out, feel free to drop your pics in the Nykus group:

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Since I'm not on much yet, I haven't finished the 2nd floor of the bar so ignore the 2nd floor. I told winter I would do the bar while he did the whole island ... hangs my head in shame. Give the 2nd floor and the bar's first floor a couple days. The 3rd floor has some nice shots though. And I put a witch on the roof -- yeah I know, no flying but you can click on a sit up there by camming and that'll get you up there. I think the sit on the book is fun.

(10/20/17: 2nd floor is just about done! yay. A room for a bookish nerdy witch who is so not into dishes, lol)

oh and look for the spiderweb in the junkyard. that's a fun photo sit

if you come out, hope you have fun. I'll post some shots in the next few days to give you all some ideas for photo shoots.

Reading time.

Vetrina studiosa.

Montra estudiosa.

Bookish showcase.

Escaparate estudioso.

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Happy start of 2025 :) I'm excited for all the lovely photos I'm going to take and all the things I'm going to do. And all the books I'm going to read this year :D

p.s. I'm so happy with how the lighting turned out here.

p.s.s. I will now be adding a signature to my photos going forward. Unsure about the font yet, but we'll see.

credits. //

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CHEZ MOI - Tashi Chair

CHEZ MOI - Tashi Coffee Table

CHEZ MOI - Tashi Decor

CHEZ MOI - Tashi Macaroons

CHEZ MOI - Tashi Candle

Trompe Loeil - Rhordyn Towertop Skybox

Nutmeg - Bookshelf

Nutmeg - Quiet Daybreak Rug - Color3

Nutmeg - Floor Lamp

Nutmeg - Room Divider w/Wreath

Apple Fall - West Village - Charleston Curtains - Cream

vespertine - head planter - calathea beauty

Merak - Bookshelf Decor Full Pack - Books

Merak - Plant in Wicker Pot White

It is so common to see people in public on their mobile phones and increasingly rare to see them reading real books that I have vowed to try and make a photo of all of the readers that I come across. My collection to-date can be viewed in the first comment box below. :)

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Architecture and culture.

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Hair - +Spellbound+ | Feels | @ The Chapter Four Feb 4 - 28th.

Headpiece - *NAMINOKE* | Rose Head Dress | @ Enchantment Feb 10 - 28th.

Head - LAQ | Bento Mesh Head, Motion Capture - Neve.

Skin Applier / Shape - 7 Deadly s[K]ins | FIONNE Taupe| Omega Appliers | @ The Chapter Four Feb 4 - 28th.

Eyes - LOTUS. | Formation Mesh Eyes.

Body - Maitreya | Mesh body, Lara.

Full Outfit - irrISIStible | Short Rose Beauty | Available for - Belleza / Maitreya / Slink / Omega | @ Enchantment Feb 10 - 28th.

Collar - Les Sucreries de Fairy | My Dear Beauty, Yellow Collar | @ Enchantment Feb 10 - 28th.

Photo bombing Friends - Les Sucreries de Fairy | My Dear Beauty / Beast / Clock / Lumiere decoration | @ Enchantment Feb 10 - 28th.

Pose 1 - AUTHENTIC Poses | Confidence | @ The Chapter Four Feb 4 - 28th.

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Dagbok 2027-10-22

04:30 - Training

Meet K. in library - late

Pitch tour with V.

Train with A.

Send owl to M. + L.

Meet with B.

Interview with E.

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Anteckningar:

Green team (Slytherin house): The kindly/most hospitable ones (according to Engström).

Blue team (Ravenclaw house): Bookish. Curious.

Red team (Gryffindor house): The brave ones (according to K. and B.). Enjoy sparring.

Yellow team (Hufflepuff house): Some bold. Some invested in food.

The Morrison Library is a special room in UC/Berkeley's big Doe Library. It shelves a selection of new books, most nonfiction, as well as poetry, history, classics, daily papers, magazines. There is a 'listening corner' where one may play classical discs (earphones). Comfort is the main offering, as you can see!

One site suggests the room dates from the late 1920s, but no history is given.

My sweet bookish friend, Kat, loved a poem I wrote so much that I thought I’d let her pick among the spring photos I wanted to post here.

Bookish, but sexy, that’s me today! I’m wearing the daring new Georgia dress from Avale, available now from Cosmopolitan, and toning it down with a sensible ponytail from Tableau Vivant and a cute little pair of glasses from Izzie’s. Hope you like it!

Full credits

Portobello Road Market

The spines of these books in the library at Anglesey Abbey makes an intriguing composition. I had a little fun with masking too :-)

10 years ago I went to a cinq à sept to abuse the free drinks. It preceded a presentation by a man with an ear surgically implanted on his arm.

I was casually chatting with the ear-man when some local body modification fiends stormed the event and demanded he show the goods. “Show us the FUCKING EARR!!” their leader shouted. Ear-man politely declined. The leader grabbed his arm, ripped down his sleeve and held the arm up for all of the mortified, bookish crowd to see. Cool move.

This summer I ran into the leader buying a banh mi. He didn’t remember the incident.

Bookcases are often very interesting places.

there’s a quiet charm in the timelessness of the bouquinistes of paris. once guardians of books, they now curate nostalgia—posters from another era, magazines with forgotten headlines, and a sense of permanence in an ever-changing city. this man, with his steady gaze and relaxed posture, seems almost like a relic himself, embodying the calm resilience of his trade. fallen leaves frame the scene, as if autumn itself has paused to pay respect to a tradition slowly evolving, yet refusing to fade.

" This is the month of quiet days...of mellow afternoons in the ripening garden...of wood-fires in the library in the chilly evenings..." ~ {Elizabeth Von Arnim} ::

Just when I think I have found my favourite SKN glasses Frenzy makes these.

Wearing ~

. Nar Mattaru . Queen Skin {Evo X} Ghost .

/TRUTH/ Void

SKN - Amber Glasses @ The Fifty

[SHIFUKU] Like Dark Academia - Fatpack Anthem

friday - Heathered Tights (Spice)

EQUAL - Anthony Sneakers

Sari-Sari - Book Stack 02 Anthem

Sari-Sari - Leather Book Wrap Anthem

Pose - Ana Poses - Charleroi 9

Haa Valley, Bhutan, 2018.

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Ringsand Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

― John Rogers