Although a book's cover may not be able to sway my final judgment of its contents, a nice cover will pique my interest enough to pick it up and leaf through, to decide whether or not I'm up for the commitment. That's why I love The Book Cover Archive, they recognize the need to appreciate and document this artform and have began posting covers of ( Read more... )

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The last several days have been unusually eventful. Whose life is this I'm living?

Yesterday, my moment of simple bliss occurred at approximately 5:30PM. I was walking home from the library while listening to Beirut; the cold wind whipping my hair about, and my hands bare and cold, save for the little tips of my fingers which were gingerly holding on to a warm, gooey, chocolate cookie. It was delicious.

TIGERS

What are we now but voices
who promise each other
a life neither one can deliver
not for lack of wanting
but wanting can't make it so.
We hang from a vine
at a cliff's edge.
There are tigers above
and below. Let us love
one another and let go.

~ Eliza Griswold, The New YorkerI love this poem ( Read more... )