Headed To Rotterdam - These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things.

One of twelve volvelles in Trithemius, Polygraphie, 1561. The title written on the fore-edge of this book suggests that it belonged to John Dee. It’s a book about cryptography, and the volvelles are cipher discs used to encoding or decoding text.

The RCP library has the largest known collection of books from John Dee’s library, going on display from January 2016.

Some 20s lingo

My year reading a book from every country in the world

Ann Morgan considered herself well read -- until she discovered the "massive blindspot" on her bookshelf. Amid a multitude of English and American authors, there were very few books from beyond the English-speaking world. So she set an ambitious goal: to read one book from every country in the world over the course of a year. Now she's urging other Anglophiles to read translated works so that publishers will work harder to bring foreign literary gems back to their shores. Explore interactive maps of her reading journey here: go.ted.com/readtheworld

Life goals. 

The day's not over... there's still hope for this list.

Read 100 pages of this book and then lost it at a job site yesterday. It is gone forever. I am unreasonably crushed. 

Update: found it sitting plain as day on the coffee table. Crisis averted.

Existential Riddles

Shouts & Murmurs: “Which is heavier, a ton of feathers or a ton of gold? Everything is equal in a cruelly indifferent universe.”

Ha - 

“A man is locked in a room with only a piano. How does he escape?

The man uses a piano “key” to escape. Then he uses religion to escape, then drugs, then a relationship that clearly won’t work out in the long term, then unhealthy food, then rage, then the “key” again, because it’s a cycle, it’s an endless cycle, and he can never truly escape until he accepts that she’s really gone.”

I'm actually a prophet in a cave in 7000 BC being shown all this as a cautionary tale

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Most Reblogged Books

So many, so little time.

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordian

A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

The Divergent series by Veronica Roth

The Amazing Book is Not On Fire by Dan Howell and Phil Lester

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

The Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Clare

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas

Twilight: Life and Death by Stephenie Meyer

Looking for Alaska by John Green

The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Warriors series by Erin Hunter

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis

The Selection series by Kiera Cass

I am very lucky - because this is the person I’m dating right now.

What shall I call you when I am cross? Mrs. Darcy? No! No. You may only call me Mrs. Darcy when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.