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File Name: Mass Ave 1354 1949-005
Title: Phillips Book Store Bookstacks
Creator/contributor: Louis W. Baker
Date created: 1949
Physical description: One (1) black-and-white print
Genre: black-and-white photographs
Subjects:
Historic buildings--Massachusetts--Cambridge
Commercial buildings
Stores, Retail
College stores
Bookstores
School bookstores
Harvard Square (Cambridge, Mass.)
Harvard University-- Buildings--History
Books in interior decoration.
Massachusetts Avenue (Mass.)
Booksellers and bookselling
Photojournalists
Display of merchandise
Notes:
Collection: Louis Baker Collection
Collection ID: N.A.
Location: Cambridge Historical Commission
Rights: No known restrictions
Preferred citation: Louis Baker Collection, Cambridge Historical Commission.
Okay, so i don't have a whole lot of time for reading what with the big clean out going on, but sometimes i'll steal a few minutes in the bathtub or during lunch.
Here's what they're about if you wanted to know:
Chicken Soup for the Brides Soul:
Cute little stories about weddings, only takes a minute to read one but they're so tear jerking and addictive...
This Book Will Change Your Life:
That's some funny stuff. It give you an activity to do every day. Like draw a fake tattoo, or write to a serial killer (it even gives their addresses). Some of the stuff is a little outrageous, some i wouldn't have the guts to do (like leave it in a park with a note to mail it back to me), some are funny. The art is terrific. A definite recommend.
Kick the Clutter:
It really is helping to encourage me to get rid of. One thing i like about this book is that it's written by a pack rat, so she understands it's hard to let go. Also, she encourages people to recycle and donate instead of throwing away. It goes room by room and give wonderful ideas.
Dead and Gone:
Trashy vampire book series that i only started reading b/c it was gonna make my friend Kate happy and she forced all the books into my hands. Turns out they are very addictive!
Going Bridal:
Wedding planning, haven't read it yet
The Everything Wedding Book:
Wedding planning, i haven't read it yet.
Trash Origami:
Making origami out of trash, for T's homeschooling. Haven't read it yet, either.
Why is that i've read the ones i own + the trashy vampire book, but not the other library books??? Katety... (Say that with a chastising tone.)
Jean-Paul Satre - The Reprieve
H.D. - Trilogy (The Walls Do Not Fall, Tribute To The Angels, The Flowering Of The Rod)
John Lewis Gaddis - The Cold War
Rob Eastaway - What Is A Googly?
Quick Fix German Grammer
The Rough Guide To Switzerland
C.G. Jung - Jung On The East
Satre - I got started on The Age Of Reason and had to just go for it & get the whole trilogy read. I'm almost done with this one, hurrah. It's sooo flipping good as well.
I always have H.D. near, I can't get enough of this book.
Just started on The Cold War book, and it's proving really interesting and accessible so far. I bought this for my dad for his birthday, and now he's done with it I get a shot. ;)
What Is A Googly - this has not left my coffee table since the Cricket World Cup began. It's a brilliant little reference book, and pretty amusing.
Eek, I need to delve into my German Grammer book sometime soon, I've neglected it of late.
Heh, I'm still planning my Swiss holiday.
Jung - have just started on this, and is proving really interesting so far (but I'm only a few pages in.. so I can't say much more than that. lol).
This is for Kate's Brilliant Photo A Day Challenge - the theme is "the last thing you bought" (this book, for Homesong Book Club, that is, if we're not counting bus tickets and groceries...).
The book stacks of the Asian Library inside the Asian Centre at the University of British Columbia. (Metro Vancouver/University Endowment Lands, BC, Canada)
(Part of Guess Where Vancouver, May 7/2009)
Stacks Stall shelf of Bibles with KK shelfmarks in the Long Room. Old Library, Trinity College, Dublin.
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This was drawn fromthe imagination so the perspective and shading is a bit off but I was just having some fun.
When I ran away from home as a child, I took a wagon, my sleeping bag and a globe. My mother put this little gift together to remind me of that time.
Here is a scarecrow, lazying about next to Saint Thomas More, here on the ol' bookshelf. I love the quirkiness of it.
Ebay Lot of Gore Vidal Books
(Kalki, Julian, 1876, Lincoln, Williwaw-Three by Gore Vidal,...)
$10 for the Lot
December 12, 2011
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FH25
Money spent on books is always money well spent!
"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition."
Thanks to family and friends my "Book Wants" list has dropped to zero. There's a few that weren't on my list too, thanks Santa.
This isn't Vancouver -- it's my backyard with a deer wondering what the hell I'm doing creeping gradually closer and closer, snapping pictures of it from behind the stack of books I picked up while I was in the city last weekend.
In the hipster-doofus bookstore Pulp Fiction (my kind of bookstore) I found Chris Adrian's The Children's Hospital which I read from the library and loved loved loved as well as another Murakami (which the girl behind the counter said was her fav and one of M's weirder ones [which is saying something]) and two John Varley's (I was extremely happy to find the out of print The Persistence of Vision short story collection (replaced by his collected stories now) - the title story is one of his best. Many thanks to Spider Robinson and his podcast at www.spiderrobinson.com/podcast.html for introducing me this master. (Follow the link and scroll down to find Robinson reading POV on 11/9/08.)
The other books, less in style than the above, Tanith Lee, Micheal Moorcock and the pulp master Robert E. Howard (of Conan fame, though these seem to be western stories), I got at the former Bookworm, now Anna's Books, on the cheap which is the great thing about the old pocket paperbacks, the same number of words as the tradepaper backs, amazingly exploitative covers of questionable taste, yet for around 3 bucks Canadian.
So I took another step closer and the deer got up and walked off to find a less odd backyard to sleep in. It wasn't going to get any rest anyways - I had to let Haley and Annie (see my past bookstacks) out to use their open-air washroom and they usually bay horribly and send any deer running for the hills
British Library book store, Woolwich in south east London, UK. The massive steelwork is a legacy of the building's original purpose of manufacturing armaments. Zenitar 16mm f/2.8 fisheye lens.
As opposed to going skiing, skating, or engaging in any other wintry sport, I did a bit of reading...
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File name: 08_02_006122
Box label: Boston Public Library: Branches (loose items)
Title: Roxbury Crossing Branch. Adults' reading room
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Physical description: 1 photographic print ; 7 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.
Genre: Photographic prints
Subjects: Boston Public Library; Public libraries; Reading rooms; Reading; Bookstacks
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Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Rights status not evaluated.
The Psalms, by Luigi Giussani
A Plain Account of Christian Perfection, by John Wesley
The Doors of the Sea: Where was God in the Tsunami?, by David Bentley Hart
Virtuous Passions, by G. Simon Harak, S.J.
Searching for God Knows What, by Donald Miller
The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative: A Study in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Hermeneutics, by Hans Frei
The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age, by George Lindbeck
Torture and Eucharist, by William Cavanaugh
Wilderness Wanderings: Probing Twentieth-Centure Theology and Philosophy, by Stanley Hauerwas
Heart of the World, Center of the Church: Communio Ecclesiology, Liberalism, and Liberation, by David Schindler
Liberation Theology After the End of History: The Refusal to Cease Suffering, by Daniel M. Bell
Radical Orthodoxy: a new theology, edited by John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock, and Graham Ward
Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed Tradition: Creation, Covenant, and Participation, edited by James K. A. Smith and James H. Olthuis
I read Giussani's The Psalms (good stuff), and the Radical Orthodoxy reader (mostly good stuff, some seemingly pointless stuff, and some totally outsanding stuff -- see Cavanaugh and Blond's essays).
Talk about late. It took me till April to get this done! The X-Men was a bit of nostalgia that didn't really hold up. Nile Shadows was a great library read which I then found on the discard pile for a buck! Awesome for me, not so great for anyone else on the island who might have wanted to get it out. But that is the rough and tumble world of library shelf space...
Finally got to read The Jewish Messiah which was as uncomfortable and odd as it was brilliant. Jeff in Venice, Death in Varnasi was another stand out in the year's reading.
I'm sort of shocked how short this pile is (partially cause it is very half-assed) but that is probably because of how complicated and varied life got. Some of it for ill, but at least I'm trying to pay attention and trying to deal with it.
I'll try and get my recent reading stack up soon.
British Library book store, Woolwich in south east London, UK. Looking down onto the ground floor. Miles and miles of books. Zenitar 16mm f/2.8 fisheye lens.
A visit to the public library in Saint Malo: Médiathèque de Saint-Malo, France
Magazines and books - The Flickr Lounge
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File name: 08_02_005669
Box label: Boston Public Library: Interiors: Unidentified locations/physical plant & machinery/service buildings
Title: Open shelf room
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Physical description: 1 photographic print ; 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
Genre: Photographic prints
Subjects: Boston Public Library; Public libraries; Bookstacks
Notes: Title from item, from additional material accompanying item, or from information provided by the Boston Public Library.; This room is possibly located in the basement of the McKim building at the Boston Public Library Central Branch.; Image caption: About 3,000 books are placed in this room, under the following classes: Biography, Domestic Science, Economics & Business, Education, Essays, French, Gardening & Agriculture, German, Government, Health, History, Italian, Literary History, Manners & Customs, New Books (non-fiction), Philosophy & Psychology, Plays, Poetry, Religion, Science, Sociology, Spanish, Sports & Amusements, and Travel. The new non-fiction occupies the ranges on the right of the entrance.
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Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
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