Uma questão de auto-confiança / Self-confidence

“I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence.”

Edgar Allan Poe

Pai natal oferece cartão de biblioteca / Santa gives library card

Contos de fadas para gajos / A guy's book of fairy tales

Baby Blues

Era uma vez um rapaz... / Once upon a time there was a boy who...

“Once upon a time there was a boy.
He lived in a village that no longer exists,
in a house that no longer exists,
on the edge of a field that no longer exists,
where everything was discovered
 and everything was possible.
A stick could be a sword.
A pebble could be a diamond.
A tree could be a castle.”  

Nicole Krauss

O fado é Património Imaterial da Humanidade/ The Portuguese Fado

Mariza - Ó gente da minha Terra

Oiçam e comovam-se.

Ó gente da minha terra, estamos de parabéns! O fado foi hoje considerado Património Imaterial da Humanidade pela UNESCO.  :)

O bom bibliotecário / The good librarian

“Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion.”

Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!

A geografia de Homer Simpson/ Homer Simpson's geography

Uma das personagens mais deliciosamente idiotas alguma vez criadas. Mais idiota que isto é muito difícil mas mesmo assim adoramo-lo!

A estante dos meus livros / My books have their own shelves

Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi, 1861

"I want my books to have their own shelves.’ you said,

and that’s how I knew it would be okay to live together.” 

 “The Lover’s Dictionary” by David Levithan

Não sejas normal, conta a história que só tu podes contar / Get crazy: start telling the stories that only you can tell

“Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you. Tarantino - you can criticize everything that Quentin does - but nobody writes Tarantino stuff like Tarantino. He is the best Tarantino writer there is, and that was actually the thing that people responded to - they’re going ‘this is an individual writing with his own point of view. There are better writers than me out there, there are smarter writers, there are people who can plot better - there are all those kinds of things, but there’s nobody who can write a Neil Gaiman story like I can.”  

Neil Gaiman

A ouvir Michael Buble: Dream a Little Dream of Me

A ouvir Aurea: Busy (for me)

Elogio do inconformismo / The joy of change

"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”  

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

Talvez eu não escreva para ninguém / "Perhaps I write for no one"

Pierre Mornet

“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for, when they scrawl their names in the snow.” 

Margaret Atwood, from “The Blind Assassin” (2000)

Do Brasil vem o Rap da Educação

Via Bibliotecar

Um monge lê para os seus gatos / A monk reads aloud to his kittens

A imprimir a Wikipédia, porquê? / Printing out the Wikipedia, why?

Zits

Velho Batman Leitor / Old Batman reading

Marc Jallard

Pequena leitora de vestido fúchia / Pretty girl in pink with a book

Hiroshi Furuyoshi

Uma leitora com apetite / Woman with book by Andrey Yakovlev

Andrey Yakovlev

A pequena leitora de Eduard Klieber / Little dirl reading by Eduard Klieber

Eduard Klieber, 1855

Leitores com jogo de basebol ao fundo / Books and Bats

"Books and Bats" de Félix Pagaimo Street

As leitoras de Fernand Toussaint / Women reading by Fernand Toussaint

Fernand Toussaint (1873-1955)

O gato leitor.../ Cat reading

...arranha quem lhe interrompe a leitura.

Sortudo, são sete vidas para ler!

Uma estante que se enraíza / The roots of a bookcase

DesignBoom

Ler em todos os momentos / Read to lead

Duane Bryers

"Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.” 

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Lê inclusivamente enquanto fazes ginástica!

O Facebook nas palavras cruzadas / Facebook in crosswords

Jeff Stahler

3 citações sobre a vida / 3 quotes about life

“Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people do that, but the great people are the ones who make you feel that you too, can be great.”

Mark Twain “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky “And what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.” A Series of Unfortunate Events de Lemony Snicket

A leitora do Financial Times...nua / Naked woman reading the Financial Times

Fernando Vicente

A cultura dos povos por Agostinho da Silva

Fernando Vicente

"Os povos serão cultos na medida em que entre eles crescer o número dos que se negam a aceitar qualquer benefício dos que podem; dos que se mantêm sempre vigilantes em defesa dos oprimidos não porque tenham este ou aquele credo político, mas por isso mesmo, porque são oprimidos e neles se quebram as leis da Humanidade e da razão; dos que se levantam, sinceros e corajosos, ante as ordens injustas, não também porque saem de um dos campos em luta, mas por serem injustas; dos que acima de tudo defendem o direito de pensar e de ser digno".

Agostinho da Silva, in 'Diário de Alcestes'

A leitora de Sophie Isobel / Woman reading by Sophie Isobel

Sophie Isobel

A ouvir Mama Cass Elliot - Dream a Little Dream of Me

Reciprocidade: um poema, um beijo / Reciprocity: a poem, a kiss

Kim Roberti

“The world comes into the poem,
The poem comes into the world.
Reciprocity - it all comes down
To that.
As with lovers:
When it’s right you can’t say
Who is kissing whom.”

Gregory Orr, from “Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved”

Leitora à janela de Margaret Preston / Woman reading by Margaret Preston

The studio window,  Margaret Preston (1875 –1963)

O socialismo da biblioteca pública / The socialism of the public library

Alex Dukal

“I can’t think of a more egregious example of government-sponsored socialism than the public library. Unproductive citizens without two nickels to rub together are given access to millions of books they could never afford to buy on their own — all paid for with the tax dollars of productive citizens. Does the government pay for people to rent tuxedos for free, sail boats for free, or play golf for free? No, it does not. So why should it pay for people to read books and surf the Internet for free?”
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Edward Mcclelland, asking all the right questions

A leitora de Janet Hill / Woman reading by Janet Hill

Janet Hill

Os idiotas são tão cheios de certezas/ Idiots are always so sure of everything

E o mundo está tão cheio deles!

And there are so many in this world!

“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing.”

Jaggi Vasudev

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A inteligência de não ter certezas: o sinal de inteligência é viver cheio de incertezas, levantando constantemente questões. Os idiotas estão sempre tão certos de tudo!)

A magia da leitura / The magic of reading

Violet Lemay

“When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”

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“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.” John Steinbeck

O cão hoje já está cansado / Today the dog is already tired

Até amanhã. :)

Gato marcador de livros / Cat bookmark

Faz o teu próprio livro / Do it yourself books

Livros em estantes pela arte de Hector Toro / Bookshelves painted by Hector Toro

Hector Toro

Se as nossas janelas fossem Windows / If our windows were Windows

A bela leitora de Gabrielle Bakker / Woman with book by Gabrielle Bakker

Gabrielle Bakker

A leitora de Charles Lenoir / Woman reading by Charles Lenoir

Charles Lenoir (1860-1926)

8 Citações sobre livros / 8 Quotes about books

“Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination.”

Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night “Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.” Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader’s Reflections on a Year of Books “She loved to read and did so quite uncritically, taking each book as a prescription of sorts, an argument for a certain kind of life.”  Jennifer Egan, Invisible Circus “In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.” Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life “In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can’t lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks or fire gunshots in your living room; you have to listen to it in your head. A book won’t move your eyes for you the way images on a screen do. It won’t move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in it. It won’t do the work for you. To read a story well is to follow it, to act it, to feel it, to become it—everything short of writing it, in fact. Reading is not “interactive” with a set of rules or options, as games are; reading is actual collaboration with the writer’s mind. No wonder not everybody is up to it.” Ursula K. Le Guin, Harper’s Magazine  <><> <><> <><> “Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.” Jesse Lee Bennet (Os livros enquanto bússulas que nos orientam pela vida) “Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life… to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you’re borrowing from a friend.” Dave Kellett “Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.” Virginia Woolf   <><> <><>

José Saramago pelo traço de Pedro Matos / Saramago by Pedro Matos

Pedro Matos

Artista português a viver em Londres.