At The End Of 2014, Find Repose By Exciting The Mind. 52 Of The World's Leading Thinkers Offer The Books

I'd love to do this! 

I’m always Very Concerned for people who have their mugs precariously balanced on their beds in book photos.

On the Shelves in Oxford this week you can either go Backpacking with the Saints or spend your time Living with the Stars - or both! Living with the Stars tells the fascinating story of what truly makes the human body. We are quite literally not who we were years, weeks, or even days ago. Backpacking with the Saints is an intimate narrative of backpacking alone through the wilderness as a spiritual practice.

Photos by Jack Campbell-Smith for Oxford University Press.

Some 20s lingo

An excellent summer reading list.

“Whether you’re camped out on the beach or curled up on the couch on a rainy day, there’s nothing quite like sitting down with a great book in the summer. While we were still in the White House, I began sharing my summer favorites—and over the years, it’s become a little tradition that I look forward to sharing with you all. So without further ado, here are some books I’ve read recently. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did.” Barack Obama via Instagram

I mainly read YA because I have a PhD in literature and I need the complexity and emotion to remain intellectually engaged, but sometimes I do like to relax with an adult book. It’s nice to rest my mind with long descriptions and philosophical digressions and to read about feelings like ambivalence and activities like elder care. I really enjoy Tom Robbins’ Jitterbug Perfume because he writes so well about vegetables before he gets to the sexy bits.

E. Lockhart via YA Authors On Their Favorite Adult Books (via flavorwire)

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