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Read in red

A repurposed phonebox in South Queensferry, August 2020 – Welcome to One Word Sunday, and over to all of you to join the challenge with your own red or read post.To join […]
Read in red

Help yourself

A street library, Milan, December 2019   Copyright Debbie Smyth, 13 December 2019 Posted as part of Weekend B&W

Liliputian Library

Informal, ad-hoc libraries seem to be popping up all over.  This one in Oakland, California, might be tiny but it is beautiful. **************************************************************************** Lilliputian Library, reblogged from Oakland Daily Photo. This little […]

A is for… Analphabetic

The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines analphabetic as lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books, and as one of my favourite literary characters commented: “To the uneducated, an A […]

John Rylands Library

“There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.” Michel de Montaigne The John Rylands Library in Manchester is housed in a beautifully striking late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on […]