1. malapropsbookstore:

    Have you voted for your favorite bookstore yet?  Let us present some arguments in our favor.

    Our unparalleled voracious appetites:

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    Our Jedi training:

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    Our program to help Hobbits integrate into modern society:

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    (Think of the Hobbits!)

    Our impeccable style: 

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    And, mostly, our love for all of you!

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    (And don’t forget about our sister store, Downtown Books and News…)

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  2. wood-is-good:

    Ancient American Chestnut Tree

    A family next to an ancient American Chestnut in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Western North Carolina. A rapidly growing, deciduous hardwood tree, the Chestnut reached up to 100-150 feet tall and 10 feet in diameter.

    Credit: Great Smoky Mountains National Park Library and The American Chestnut Foundation

    (via appalachianed)

     

  3. What we do on the weekend.

     

  4. Parachute Party

     


  5. All the while she was getting dressed she felt [the] poems standing upright all over the room. She even kept an eye on them in her dressingtable mirror, lest they escape into their natural vertical ascent.
    — J.D. Salinger, “The Inverted Forest” 

    (Source: mythologyofblue)

     

  6. downtownbooksandnews:

    Downtown Books had a fabulous facelift in preparation for the opening of our new art space, The News GalleryTasteful decor and track lighting highlight the artwork of Jonas Gerard, hanging until July. 

     

  7. Mustache Friends

     

  8. Fire Dragons

     

  9. Khaled Hosseini’s new book dropped today! We at Malaprop’s are a little exited!!

     

  10. a dance

     

  11. Tickle Monster

     


  12. Bibliotherapy

    powells:

    An expressive therapy that uses an individual’s relationship to the content of books and poetry as therapy.