Una dintre activitățile mele favorite este să răsfoiesc conturile de Instagram dedicate cărților. Și dacă tot nu trece zi fără să stau pe bookstagram, am zis să fac și o listă cu preferatele mele.

Bookmateriality

În afară de aspectul vizual, ceea ce mă interesează la un cont de Instagram dedicat cărților sunt și micile recenzii de carte. Sigur, sunt multe conturi minunate la nivel vizual, însă vreau să văd și păreri, comentarii legate de diverse cărți, citate faine, ca să descopăr ceva nou pentru lista mea de citit. Bookmateriality este contul perfect din acest punct de vedere: sunt poze geniale din diverse librării cochete, poze cu ediții de cărți cu coperte artsy, dar și comentarii pertinente despre diverse cărți, sau citate super-interesante.

Câteva idei interesante de pe @bookmateriality, pentru a vă deschide apetitul:

• “It’s not just that people sacrifice their love relationships, and the care of their children, to pursue their careers. Something like this has perhaps always existed. The point is that today many people feel called to do this, feel they ought to do this, feel their lives would be somehow wasted or unfulfilled if they didn’t do it.” (Charles Taylor)

• “And so she ventured to a place where the books were aplenty, the light breeze through the window carrying with it the air of the city’s curiosity, willing itself to be absorbed into the alphabetised tomes. Here she sat for four hours, reading; intermittently allowing her eyes to wander to the bookshelves. The leap of the heart, a pleasurable churning in the gut, when her gaze would fall upon a Moore, a Winterson, a Morrison, a Didion…a stretching of the legs, a reaching for the eye-spied book; greedily clasping it in one’s hand and in sacrosanct ardour, turning it over, reveling in its materiality, the cover, the blurb.”  (@bookmateriality)

• “I straddle a fine line between wanting to be social and wanting to be a hermit. Actually, it’s not really a fine line, I’d rather be a hermit. Bookshops with cafes fulfill both these briefs.” (@bookmateriality)

Bookmusings 

Bookmusings este un cont recent descoperit, iar aici îmi plac mult pozele, care îmi dau o stare de citit. 😀

Câteva citate faine de pe @bookmusings

• “If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.” (Daphne Du Maurier)

• “Is not this a true autumn day?…The trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one’s very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” (George Eliot)

• “The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.” (Roald Dahl, Matilda)

Esarkaye

Esarkaye este un tip care scrie foarte bine. Cred că cele mai bune ”recenzii” de carte de pe Instagram le-am vazut la el pe cont. E un must pentru iubitorii de carte, nu trece zi fără să nu intru pe contul său.

• Anyway, I was up at 7 this morning and am tired as hell. These past days have been so busy and exhausting, that I figured I’d take a small break now and go to the café – so here I am, with The Revolt of the Masses in front of me. José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) was a Spanish philosopher who for many years held the chair of metaphysics at the University of Madrid. Among other things, he was a proto-existentialist, concerned with many of the same issues that would later occupy major figures of existentialism like Heidegger. You may have heard of his maxim, ‘Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia’ (‘I am I and my circumstance’) – he believed that there is no ‘I’ without ‘things’; that you cannot detach or isolate a person from his or her circumstances, from the world that surrounds them. (@Esarkaye)

• ‘I love three things,’ I then say. ‘I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth.’ ‘And which do you love best?’ ‘The dream.’ (Hamsun)

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