2012 entra como o ano da crise: 3 cartoons / 2012, the year ot the crisis

Jimmy Margulies

Steve Nease

Theo Moudakis

Era uma vez, numa noite de Natal... / Once upon a time, at Christmas Eve...

Donna Green

Pudores de Natal / Are you crazy at Christmas?

Steve Kelley

Que belo embrulho de Natal! / What a great Christmas gift!

Leituras Natalícias / Christmas readings

Yvonne Gilbert

(s. id., via Bibliotecar)

Um gato leitor pelo Natal / A cat that wants books for Christmas

Uma história de Natal / A story for Christmas

Lise Auger

As letras que caem do livro do Pai Natal / Santa's book

Pitu Leandro

Via Pinzellades al Món

Árvore de Natal bibliotecária / Librarian Christmas Tree

A leitora bucólica de Akzhana Abdalieva / A woman reading by Akzhana Abdalieva

Akzhana Abdalieva

Sorrisos de verdade ou mentira / True or false smiles

Gaetano Bellei (1857 – 1922)

"I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile, because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth-smile is different. You can fake a mouth-smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips. I’ve also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you, but his eyes stay the same. It’s sure to be a phony.”

                  

Roald Dahl, Danny, the Champion of the World

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Árvore de Natal entre livros / A Christmas tree among books

A ilusão do livre arbítrio / The illusion of free choice

Uma bibliotecária enterrada em livros / Buried in books

Lee White

O impossível / The impossible

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”                                                           

Muhammad Ali

<>"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible".<>

            Arthur C. Clarke

O livro enquanto viagem / The reading way to travel

"In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.” 

Anna Quindlen

Malas para livros cheias de estilo / Stylish book bags

À venda na Jane Austen Giftshop.

Publicidade natalícia da T-Mobile / T-Mobile's Home For The Holidays Surprise

Toda a gente merece ser beijada assim / Everybody deserves to be kissed like this

Uma imagem do grande clássico "E Tudo o Vento Levou".

Leitura levitante / Light reading

Anka Zhuravleva

Mais uma árvore de Natal literária / A literary Christmas tree

2 ilustrações vintage de leituras natalícias / Christmas readings: 2 vintage illustrations

Ratos na biblioteca / Mouses in the library

Yaoi Sensei

Dois cães que querem livros neste Natal / These dogs want books for Christmas

Uma Árvore de Natal livresca / A Christmas Tree made of books

Bonita.

E se o Pai Natal comprasse um Toyota e dispensasse as renas? / Life after Santa

Elas agarrariam novas oportunidades. :)

Eis o testemunho das renas que realizaram os seus sonhos de 2000 anos.

Uma campanha publicitária on-line ao Toyota Prius.

Mais AQUI.

"Do They Know It's Christmas?" cantada em versão Glee

Justin Bieber e Mariah Carey cantam juntos "All I want for Christmas is You"

Justin Bieber e Mariah Carey aparecem juntos no remake do sucesso de Mariah Carey de 1994, “All I want for Christmas is You".

Pobre homem! / You poor man!

- Ainda não vi o Harry Potter - Ajude-me por favor!

- Pobre homem!

Os livros na era da revolução tecnológica / Books and the recent technological revolution

“Contrary to many futuristic projections—even from bibliophiles who, as a group, enjoy melancholy reveries—the recent technological revolution has only deepened the affection that many scholars have for books and libraries, and highlighted the need for the preservation, study, and cherishing of both.”

We’re Still in Love With Books - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Anjo de Natal leitor / Christmas Angel reading

A filosofia da Internet / Internet's philosophy

“The Internet isn’t really a technology. It’s a belief system, a philosophy about the effectiveness of decentralized, bottom-up innovation. And it’s a philosophy that has begun to change how we think about creativity itself.”
                                                     

Joichi Ito - NYTimes.com

Leitores de Natal / Christmas' readers

Elissabetta Decontardi

As leitoras de Ricardo Celma / Women reading by Ricardo Celma

Ricardo Celma

Um urso na biblioteca / A bear in the library

Via Pinzellades al Món

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