Book Porn

[trysail]

Some British Pen Names

Anthony Burgess (John Burgess Wilson)
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
James Herriot (James Wright)
John Le Carré (David Cornwall)
Katharine Mansfield (Kathleen Beauchamp)
George Orwell (Eric Blair)

 

[Mischka]

Not long now my beauties!

How charming! I can smell the rain and hot tea from here.

 

[trysail]

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[trysail]

http://mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/styles/insert_main_wide_image/public/minibooks6.jpg

*laughing*​

Well, you'd certainly have to call that a roman à clé.

 

[AllyRose]

http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx27/allymccrabe22/tumblr_mkfmug4btU1rg8npco1_500.jpg​

 

[AllyRose]

*laughing*​

Well, you'd certainly have to call that a roman à clé.

*squee*

I really want one of those.

 

[trysail]

*squee*

I really want one of those.

There are a limited number of people around this joint who know what roman à clé means. I figured you to be one of 'em.

 

[trysail]

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7022/6601633013_57a7f526af_z.jpg


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[AllyRose]

There are a limited number of people around this joint who know what roman à clé means. I figured you to be one of 'em.

I wouldn't mind getting one for Christmas.

 

[AllyRose]

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7022/6601633013_57a7f526af_z.jpg


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I wouldn't mind working there.

 

[butters]

I wouldn't mind working there.

work? i'd be too busy just gazing, awestruck, at the architecture, the waiting books . . . ohhh, the waiting books....

 

[rick_j21]

work? i'd be too busy just gazing, awestruck, at the architecture, the waiting books . . . ohhh, the waiting books....

I'd hate to have to shelf books there though. That is amazing.

 

[butters]

I'd hate to have to shelf books there though. That is amazing.

isn't it? i'd be torn between wandering in reverent silence, stroking the railings, the books' spines, trying to decide which to read first and scared of missing the next - and wanting to dance my way laughing around that open floor!

 

[rick_j21]

isn't it? i'd be torn between wandering in reverent silence, stroking the railings, the books' spines, trying to decide which to read first and scared of missing the next - and wanting to dance my way laughing around that open floor!

Love to visit hate to work. I could spend many many hours there.

 

[rick_j21]

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/28300000/Libraries-Reading-Wallpapers-books-to-read-28317155-2560-1600.jpg

 

[AllyRose]

work? i'd be too busy just gazing, awestruck, at the architecture, the waiting books . . . ohhh, the waiting books....

I'd be doing that on my days off.

 

[AllyRose]

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/28300000/Libraries-Reading-Wallpapers-books-to-read-28317155-2560-1600.jpg

#orgasm

 

[rick_j21]

#orgasm

I didn't realize the picture was quite so big. I'd love to get lost in a huge library with comfortable chairs and good books. Throw in good coffee and that's heaven.

 

[AllyRose]

I didn't realize the picture was quite so big. I'd love to get lost in a huge library with comfortable chairs and good books. Throw in good coffee and that's heaven.

One of those panels almost certainly moves... and I like to think that there's a smaller room for secret meetings.

 

[rick_j21]

I like this one too:

http://static.seriocomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/readingroom.jpg

 

[AllyRose]

http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx27/allymccrabe22/tumblr_mejoqtrEpT1rmexm2o1_1280.jpg

 

[rick_j21]

Damn…. now I could live in that place forever

 

[AllyRose]

http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx27/allymccrabe22/tumblr_lo6ri0Qdty1qzupj0o1_1280.jpg

 

[rick_j21]

http://www.authorsbymoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/library-reading-nook-1.jpg

 

[AllyRose]

http://www.authorsbymoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/library-reading-nook-1.jpg

Looks like my room.