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#ItTakesAllKinds

I love a book #WithMap so I kept picking this one up at my local indie bookstore last weekend. I was very tempted to buy it but I maintained my willpower.🙅🏻‍♀️📚 It‘s full of maps of the places authors have created & essays on what inspired them & maps in general. 🗺️ 💙

I've wanted this book for so long and it's finally mine! A Christmas present from my husband and daughter. This is what I'd describe as a "nice book", a term originating in my childhood for a book that was a bit special. It was always such a thrill to receive a "nice book". I still get such a warm contented feeling from owning a book as "nice" as this one. My geeky little heart is racing - maps in books always excite & delight ?

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

Favorite fruit - apples all day! 🍎
Anticipating - I suppose book 14 of the WoT, so I can see how it all ends 🐉
Grateful for - I got my flu shot and didn't feel the least bit sick 🥵

Tagging anyone and everyone!

Got this as a gift recently. It's very cool.

#CuriousCovers Day 28 #Mountains

An eclectic mix of books that's for certain! All on my 'I would really like to own these' list.

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

This book is beautiful! Luscious. It is, however, much more shallow than I had hoped. The chapters all read as too short, as if they were longer, then edited back, stopped short. It all kind of feels like repeated coitus interuptus. I wanted more details, deeper reflections. I'm a book and map nerd.

#HolidayBookHaul Boom!!!!

This book is so pretty!!!

I only have the galley, so I can‘t do it justice, but there are gorgeous maps throughout and if you look in the Litsy database you can see it‘s a giant, gorgeous hardcover. I‘ve always loved maps, even though I have an atrocious sense of direction, and this book is full of creators sharing their love of books and maps. Highly recommend!

#24b4monday #litsypartyofone #mrbook1inamillion #nfnov

Onto my last #NFNov title before I dive into my fiction TBR with my very healthy #LitsyPartyofOne breakfast. I blame you guys! Whipped cream just makes everything pretty. 🥐

#MrBook1inaMillion #24b4Monday
#GratefulReads #BookandSnack

“The invention of the grid-map, which occurred more or less coevally with the rise of modern science in the sixteenth century, introduced a whole new power to cartography.” 🗺

I took this pic at Pioneer Book, my local used book store.

#til #nfnov

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#ImaginaryPlaces #WanderingJune

This book is sooooo beautiful. It had good information too, but I found myself way more interested in the images. Maps from the real world/history and also from books and stories.

Love the phrase literary cartography 🧭 😊

To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper -- maps are the most condensed humanized spaces of all...They make the landscape fit indoors, make us masters of sights we can't see and spaces we can't cover.-Robert Harbison

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Essays from writers and illustrators about maps of imaginary lands. From belief, to creation, including creating the right type of map, and how to read a map. Beloved landscapes such as Treasure Island, Narnia, Moby Dick, and Middle-Earth are brought to life.

#maps #illustrations #art #fantasy

This is a beautiful book, found on Amazon for $21. Came out this year full price is $45. I am so excited. larger than I expected it to be!#writersmap #atlas #map #literaryworlds

I bought this book while I was buying Christmas gifts (oops). I will no doubt read most of the essays in it, but I really bought it for it's 220 colour plates of literary lands well or little known and it has completely lived up to my expectations. This book is absolutely gorgeous. There are also essays by authors on how they made their maps. A brilliant gift for map lovers and bookworms.

Highly recommended ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Of course the bf didn't kill the book. It survived. 😍 Isn't it great? The Folio was a Christmas gift, so I don't show it and they mailed me the Folio dairy for next year. 😊 #bookmail

Every book needs a great map!

https://lithub.com/lev-grossman-why-weve-always-needed-fantastic-maps/

Am home after an exhausting week away with work but look what was waiting for me at home!!