The Joy of Books (by crazedadman)

Currently reading Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler.

From Parable of the Talents by Octavia B. Butler, page 183.

(I took the picture and made this Tumblr post with my HTC Wildfire, quite amazed it turned out that good.) 

D told me to bring this book with me to read today - as a preparation for the ongoing Monday chaos in the public transports of Stockholm.

The Terror by Dan Simmons

Give me this t-shirt!

Look at more t-shirts based on classic novels at Out of Print Clothing.

Personally I would like to have A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf and Dicipline and Punish - The Birth of The Prison by Michel Foucault (not a classic novel but still…) too. And of course The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector.

I’m such a geek.

1984 book cover t-shirt

marlanetsy:

I had a rather bad day in school today. I’m just so tired since it’s the end of this semester and the new semester’s starting really soon.
This week is only final exams for the Swedish course I’ve been taking.

When I got home a bunch of padded envelopes waited for me in the mail box. Two were expected: some supplies from Artistic Detour and some awesome Octopins from B&B Buttons.

But there was also a larger padded envelope. I recognized the sender, but I was rather surprised in the elevator going up to my apartment, squeezing the envelope gently to figure out what was in it.

And so I opened it. What a surprise! Karin - a dear Etsy friend with whom I often chat via Twitter or convos on Etsy - has sent me a bunch of vintage crochet and knit magazines and one of her favorite sci-fi books. What a treasure for a crochet and book geek!

So, Karin, you really made my day! And never mind that  the magazines has some silly patterns or that the book is worn. I certainly do not! 
Thank you, thank you.

Friends, please do pay KarinSF a visit on Etsy. She’s a knitter and designs wonderful lacy collars and cool beanie hats amongst other accessories. Go now!

I really like those pictures in the pattern magazines - awesome! Shorts and crocheted tank top. Sweet, right? ;)
I’ll read Greybeard by Brian W. Aldiss as soon as possible. First I need to finish Parable of the sower. It’s a fascinating and philosophical dystopia by one of my favorite authors - Octavia Butler.

Gemensamt läseprojekt med responsgruppen i skolan: Snö av Orhan Pamuk.

Jag fick Snö av mamma i julklapp 2006, men har inte börjat läsa den förrän nu. Kanske kändes den alltför tung av politik, självmord och allmän kyla just 2006?

Nu har jag plockat upp den, jag följer Ka genom den virvlande snön i den turkiska staden Kars. Det är kallt, både i min lägenhet och mellan bokens sidor men jag tycker mycket om Pamuks språk.

via pics.librarything.com

eintr:

In the Land of Invented Languages Just about everyone has heard of Esperanto, which was nothing less than one man’s attempt to bring about world peace by means of linguistic solidarity. And every Star Trek fan knows about Klingon, which was nothing more than a television show’s attempt to create a tough-sounding language befitting a warrior race with ridged foreheads. But few people have heard of Babm, Blissymbolics, and the nearly nine hundred other invented languages that represent the hard work, high hopes, and full-blown delusions of so many misguided souls over the centuries. In In The Land of Invented Languages, author Arika Okrent tells the fascinating and highly entertaining history of man’s enduring quest to build a better language. Peopled with charming eccentrics and exasperating megalomaniacs, the land of invented languages is a place where you can recite the Lord’s Prayer in John Wilkins’s Philosophical Language, say your wedding vows in Loglan, and read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in Lojban. (via In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent

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