The Best LGBT Books of 2012: 87 Authors Select Their Favorites - Band of Thebes

Thought this might be of interest to someone.

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If there is one thing I love more than books it's clever and beautiful libraries/bookshelves. So this is exactly what it promises:

Bookshelf Porn!

Guh, so many pretties!

My grandfather built their house around his extensive library. If I had the kind of money he had, or just any money really, that's what I would do. *wishful sigh*

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The Hindu : Arts / Books : Ban will be a greater insult: Tushar

Joseph Lelyveld's Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India is the latest book the Maharashtra government has decided to ban in spite of having faced charges of suppressing freedom of expression in the past ( Read more... )

Bold the ones you've read COMPLETELY, italicize the ones you've read part of. Watching the movie or the cartoon doesn't count. Abridged versions don't count either. BTW, according to the BBC if you've read 7 of these, you are above the average. (Seriously? 7!?!)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ( Read more... )

Going to this week's second funeral in about an hour. Third one scheduled in ten days. *sighs*

Anyway, I'm cataloging some old books and found this in the introduction to "Look Homeward, Angel" by Thomas Wolfe and thought I'd share:

"But we are the sum of all the moments of our lives - all that is ours is in them : we cannot escape or conceal it ( Read more... )

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Sometimes I wish books, like fic, came with warnings.

[ETA. Possible spoilers in comments.]

I was only going to lie down for a little while, maybe nap for half an hour and then go back out into the brilliant weather we're having. Snuggling down I picked up The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards, that I was about half done with, meaning to just read a chapter or so before closing my eyes, but instead continued reading until it was ( Read more... )