Distant Heartbeats

~ Tuesday, February 14 ~

I’ll be spending a fair amount of time in here over the next few weeks. Good thing the rest of the students haven’t realised we have this pretty, small library.

#library #libraries #currently

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~ Friday, November 4 ~

Friday night. Sexy times.

#library #libraries #my life

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~ Saturday, October 8 ~

I’ve been sat reading in the library for three and half hours. I’m here for another hour before I head to a poetry slam. These are all university-related texts. A few are set texts and two (Classical Mythology and The Penelopiad) are further reading I thought would be interesting and helpful.

#currently reading #library #reading #uni #uni reading

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~ Wednesday, September 28 ~

#student problems.

It is a gorgeous day outside, and I want to be in the sun, but I have a lot of reading to do and it would make a lot more sense to remain in the library. For now, it must suffice to stare longingly out the window every few minutes.

#student life #my life #library #sun

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~ Wednesday, August 31 ~

I would have bought this if they had had it in my size! It’s so adorable, I want it.

#library #I love my library

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~ Monday, June 6 ~

I was at the library returning a book and getting a couple out, and decided sitting here to read would be a lovely change to reading in my apartment. I love this library. I’m currently reading several books on the go, but the one I’m most engrossed in is The Divinity Gene by Matthew J. Trafford. What’re you currently reading?

#books #library #my life #reading #places I read

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~ Tuesday, January 4 ~

Currently studying in the library, and taking breaks from cramming my head with hominins to read a little Burroughs & Kerouac.

What have you started the year off with? What are you currently reading?

#Jack Kerouac #William S. Burroughs #currently reading #library #places I read

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~ Thursday, December 30 ~

I’ve been spending the last couple of mornings in the library getting some revision done. I leave my laptop at home. The lack of internet really helps matters.

#library #studying #my life

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~ Monday, October 25 ~

blackmarketblood asked: Hi, do you even go to the library? Because you only post pictures of books you've bought and I find it quite weird not going to library. If don't, why? :)
Anyways, I love your tumblr! It's one of my favourites :)

This is probably one of the questions I get most frequently. I answer it every couple of months or so.

Firstly — and this should need no justification — I enjoy owning the books I love.

Secondly, and most importantly, there are no good libraries (for fiction written in English) in Bahrain. My secondary school (high school) had one, but once I graduated, obviously I couldn’t continue using it. Besides, even though we had a decent library, it wasn’t amazing, so I bought books. They very often were expensive and I’d end up using my entire allowance. I didn’t care — it was the only way I could read.

Thirdly, the vast majority of the books I buy nowadays are either from secondhand shops, Amazon or The Book People. I think that secondhand bookshops and independent stores should be supported just as much as libraries should be, and I support them wholeheartedly. Amazon because it’s cheaper, obviously, and useful for obscure books. The Book People do great set collections. Buying seven books for £7.99 is an amazing ass deal, and I’ll be damned if I didn’t take up on it when I can.

Finally, I do go to the library in London (I’ve posted pictures of the library, sitting outside it, books borrowed from it, etc — as recently as a month ago) when I’m there, and I go to the library in my university town, too. I think libraries should be supported, and I definitely encourage people to use them.

But I’m the kind of person who wants to own and leaf through the books, I want to have a huge library when I grow up, and starting now seems like a great plan to me.

And thank you so much for the compliment :)

#Q's #library #libraries

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~ Friday, September 24 ~

“ Then I met Michael, and I was very much not single after that. We moved in together, put all of our books on the same shelf, not caring if we forgot whose was whose. We bought a bed together and a short reading table and other sundry articles.

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Deb Olin Unferth, Minor Robberies

I know I’ve never been in a relationship that serious, but I can’t ever imagine being okay mixing my books with someone else’s.

#Deb Olin Unferth #books #libraries #minor robberies #quotes #library

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