An image of the Library Bath (via DecoJournal and NotCot)
Hello new friend.  The Library Bath?!  My G-d, I’d never leave the tub.  Sure, you might splash on your books but wow… can you imagine?  And the top is flat, so you can put your wine there.  This delightful tub comes from Swedish designer Malin Lundmark [...]

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Last night I stopped by Molly Wizenberg’s, aka Orangette, book signing here in DC.  Her book A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, honestly, is just what I need at the moment.  It isn’t only that I’ve been reading nothing but Civil War and re-enactor related things lately, its that… I’ve been [...]

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From Post Secret– I hope they are able to raise enough money this holiday to keep the site ad-free.
My family is a big bunch of nerds– not that there is anything wrong with that.  its just that, at Christmas, we all just tend to exchange books with each other.  I love it, since I get [...]

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Yesterday I got my Sioux Falls, SD library card.  Maybe I’ll be admitting how nerdy I am, but I now have three active library cards: Washington DC, University, and Sioux Falls.  Frankly, my priority when I move to a new city is find the central library and get my library card.  I usually do this [...]

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Is a green car trip an oxymoron?  On one hand, I feel like I drive an ULEV (ultra low emission vehicle) and Good Magazine’s recent infographic about cost per mile made me feel a lot better about my little gas sipping Civic.  Nevertheless, being green while you travel is tough, you’re either buying bottled water because [...]

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I’ve been working shelving books this summer in my university library– it is a wonderful job, very little supervision, I can wear my sandals and listen to my iPod all day, and I discover wonderful new books along the way. Of course, I can’t always check them out, usually I just browse through them [...]

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Quite frankly, I have too many of them. We are leaving for vacation on Friday, there is no reason for me to have 12 books from the library. This tally does not include the 3 magazines I have to read and the “fun” books I’d hoped to read on vacation.

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