I’d pick Dune to read! I feel a bit ashamed that I haven’t read it yet and have not let myself watch the films not having read the book yet, so I gotta get on it!
I have only read the first one and I thought it was clearly a little dated but wonderful all the same. If you are a fan of the SFF genre, I think it is a must read!
I very much like what you are doing, Nishant. I’m hoping that among the lucky folks who receive your drawings there will be someone who decides to try sketching for the first time! The first time I saw your drawings I tried doing some sketching again, after not doing so for a long time. I found the “simplicity” of them gave me the idea that I could have some fun trying to copy your style myself.
Thank you Steve! I am glad to inspire you towards a sketching habit. Keep it simple, set yourself a time limit, and give yourself the space to make lots of bad drawings. Enjoy all of it!
I like the idea of taking the ‘52 Great Day Trips from Vancouver’, planning a day trip that includes another LFL and dropping the book off there for someone else to do the same.
I didn’t think that LFLs were popular in the UK but I was surprised to find some fairly near by! I may drop something off the next time I’m clearing out books.
We have a LFL in our neighborhood, and we are big readers! Every summer when my husband has off from teaching creative writing at the University of New Hampshire in Durham? We grab small piles of books that we have read and ride our bicycles around town, and put a book or two in each one. Our public library manages some of them,
But there are about 10 others in different neighborhoods. And 2 of them are in Little Free Art Libraries! They are in folk’s yards and they have pieces left by artists!
The book I would read if Phillip Pullman’s “The Subtle Knife.” When my daughter was younger, we would read the series to her, she was also a good reader, but we enjoyed reading together as a family. Or we would listen to an audiobook and do a jig saw puzzle. We all loved those books, even naming an 1896 painting of a women we had as Serafina, after the heroic witch!
So I’d read it again, to see how it has changed for me, now that the theocracy is trying to hijack the US government!
I love the little art galleries and am lucky to have one in my neighborhood as well! Phillip Pullman is always a great choice, I remember reading at least two of the His Dark Materials books. Magical thinking for dark times!
I have a little free library in my front yard. I love changing the books with the seasons and being surprised by what is left in there. I also have a geocache in it and that brings additional people to the little free library. From the library you posted, I would select the 730 easy science experiments. 730 seems like such a huge number and I’m intrigued by the volume of experiments offered and also that they are all easy. I imagine letting the book fall open to random page and doing whatever experiment happens to turn up. This sounds like a lot of fun to me. The old fashioned comb bind tells me that this is an older book and I love old books. They often have ideas from bygone days that we no longer think about. I have already read Dune and Into Thin Air. Both good books. This LFL has a very nice selection😄
Anu, one day I hope to have a LFL in my front yard, preferably one that I build myself too! What a good pick for a book to withdraw. Experiments are the best way to engage with and learn science. I'm sure this book would be fascinating.
I sense a people here who are struggling and also working to reach their goals. Multi-cultural, practicing their faiths, reaching high, worried but hopeful.
Well, turns out we don't have a Little Free Library in Greeneville, TN. I'm going to see what I can do about changing that. The first book I'd put in it would be Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. It's appropriate for any age. If you haven't read it, you need to, and if you have read it, it's a great book to read again. Its themes are ever more relevant in our world. And it's a great story.
So true, Melinda. I devoured that series, and it was one of my entrypoints into fantasy literature for young people. Best of luck making a LFL if you decide to do that! 🙌🏽 Soon, I hope to speak with someone who installed a LFL outside their home, and invite them to share their experiences running it.
I posted about the LFL in our community FB group, and it turns out that there are several! They just aren’t listed anywhere. The post has generated a ton of responses and offers to make more boxes. It’s turning out to be such a fun, wonderful thing! I went on thriftbooks and ordered five copies of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone for my inaugural donations. I plan to put a little drawing in each one. Thank you so much for this inspiration! :) Looking forward to hearing about the person with the LFL outside their home!
I have a couple in my neighborhood that are not listed either. Apparently there are a group of people who go to LFL‘s and take the books that they can resell for profit. So some are now unlisted to discourage such bad behavior.
That is amazing! This was my big wish with this post, that maybe people will suddenly notice LFLs in their neighborhood and start using them. Please let me know how this goes!
In looking at the books from that neighborhood, I’m intrigued by the two books in Japanese. I would love to look inside those books at the beautiful letters of their alphabet. I have a sense that this small neighborhood community is interested in exploring the world beyond the ordinary daily life. I might want to find a coffee shop in this area to sit and observe and sketch. I loved your question.
Monica, that is a great observation. This is the LFL closest to my home, and I walk by it often. I am regularly surprised by the collection of books inside, and I know it for an active library with lots of giving and taking. The books in Japanese are the first two volumes of Murakami's 1Q84 in the original Japanese, and the text inside was written top to down. I found that already fascinating, and makes me think about how we process information as readers - left to right, right to left, top to bottom.
My pic would be Alaska by James Michener. I’ve been a fan of this author since my teenage years. I love the fact that he takes you through the history of the place and people. I’m currently reading “Space”. I wish I had read his book.’Texas” when I lived in Texas because it gave me such insight into the culture there. I have a wish to travel to Alaska and it would be great to read the book before I go. Just FYI, after reading your post about the little library I found that there is one in my city, Durango, which I plan to leave a little bit of my artwork in a book when I find its location.
Oh, I might just have to go back to pick up that book! Alaska is not too far from us, and we are thinking about doing the weeklong summer cruise from Vancouver to Alaska.
What book would I take? I think the Feucht Wanger book grabs my attention because it's maybe in German and I speak German. But that might be the author and the Lisy something written below might be the title. Also there are two books with the same look but they are different sizes which I'm very curious about. In any case, if it was not a great read I could take out the pages and replace it with blank pages for a new/old journal. And I could use the discarded pages for black out poetry or in collage.
I work in a public library and have watched happily as LFL's pop up all over my town. I find it interesting how folks soon realize that having an LFL is not an easy, self-sustaining project. That the owner has to curate the collection for the folks who stop by regularly just like at a public library and that weeding the collection of donations that aren't moving is also important. That sometimes the shelves go suddenly bare and the owner doesn't want the next customer to come across bare shelves. One magical thing that I find quite lovely is that many folks restock the LFLs with books from the local public library Friends of the Library on-going booksales, which the proceeds, in turn, fund programs at the local public library. How fantastic that this circle of community revolves around books! I'm inspired by your business cards to try dropping my art around LFL's too - what a lovely idea!
Ohh that is such a lovely book cycle from library stock to LFLs! I remember reading about how libraries need to clear old stock periodically, and I loved the last time VPL had a clearance sale.
Never knew about the LFL and I've never heard about a concept like this in India at least. But I'm gonna make a mental note, keep it on the reserves of my mind till I can make it a reality in the "dream space of my dreams". One day I'll own a space and it'll have an LFL! If you know of any in India though, please do tell me. I'd love to check them out and promote them.
Vedi, check out the link at the start of the post to the main website. It has a map of all LFLs across the world. But yes, I also want to build one someday. In India, maybe in a semi private space that can be safely managed?
Love the guerrilla art donations!
Thank you Mike!
I’d pick Dune to read! I feel a bit ashamed that I haven’t read it yet and have not let myself watch the films not having read the book yet, so I gotta get on it!
I have only read the first one and I thought it was clearly a little dated but wonderful all the same. If you are a fan of the SFF genre, I think it is a must read!
I very much like what you are doing, Nishant. I’m hoping that among the lucky folks who receive your drawings there will be someone who decides to try sketching for the first time! The first time I saw your drawings I tried doing some sketching again, after not doing so for a long time. I found the “simplicity” of them gave me the idea that I could have some fun trying to copy your style myself.
Thanks Nishant! Keep them coming please!
Thank you Steve! I am glad to inspire you towards a sketching habit. Keep it simple, set yourself a time limit, and give yourself the space to make lots of bad drawings. Enjoy all of it!
I like the idea of taking the ‘52 Great Day Trips from Vancouver’, planning a day trip that includes another LFL and dropping the book off there for someone else to do the same.
I didn’t think that LFLs were popular in the UK but I was surprised to find some fairly near by! I may drop something off the next time I’m clearing out books.
Ohh that is a great way to use that kind of book! 🙌
We have a LFL in our neighborhood, and we are big readers! Every summer when my husband has off from teaching creative writing at the University of New Hampshire in Durham? We grab small piles of books that we have read and ride our bicycles around town, and put a book or two in each one. Our public library manages some of them,
https://www.cityofportsmouth.com/library/little-free-libraries
But there are about 10 others in different neighborhoods. And 2 of them are in Little Free Art Libraries! They are in folk’s yards and they have pieces left by artists!
The book I would read if Phillip Pullman’s “The Subtle Knife.” When my daughter was younger, we would read the series to her, she was also a good reader, but we enjoyed reading together as a family. Or we would listen to an audiobook and do a jig saw puzzle. We all loved those books, even naming an 1896 painting of a women we had as Serafina, after the heroic witch!
So I’d read it again, to see how it has changed for me, now that the theocracy is trying to hijack the US government!
I love the little art galleries and am lucky to have one in my neighborhood as well! Phillip Pullman is always a great choice, I remember reading at least two of the His Dark Materials books. Magical thinking for dark times!
I have a little free library in my front yard. I love changing the books with the seasons and being surprised by what is left in there. I also have a geocache in it and that brings additional people to the little free library. From the library you posted, I would select the 730 easy science experiments. 730 seems like such a huge number and I’m intrigued by the volume of experiments offered and also that they are all easy. I imagine letting the book fall open to random page and doing whatever experiment happens to turn up. This sounds like a lot of fun to me. The old fashioned comb bind tells me that this is an older book and I love old books. They often have ideas from bygone days that we no longer think about. I have already read Dune and Into Thin Air. Both good books. This LFL has a very nice selection😄
Anu, one day I hope to have a LFL in my front yard, preferably one that I build myself too! What a good pick for a book to withdraw. Experiments are the best way to engage with and learn science. I'm sure this book would be fascinating.
I sense a people here who are struggling and also working to reach their goals. Multi-cultural, practicing their faiths, reaching high, worried but hopeful.
That is very thoughtful, Stacy! Vancouver is all of those things, indeed.
Well, turns out we don't have a Little Free Library in Greeneville, TN. I'm going to see what I can do about changing that. The first book I'd put in it would be Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. It's appropriate for any age. If you haven't read it, you need to, and if you have read it, it's a great book to read again. Its themes are ever more relevant in our world. And it's a great story.
So true, Melinda. I devoured that series, and it was one of my entrypoints into fantasy literature for young people. Best of luck making a LFL if you decide to do that! 🙌🏽 Soon, I hope to speak with someone who installed a LFL outside their home, and invite them to share their experiences running it.
I posted about the LFL in our community FB group, and it turns out that there are several! They just aren’t listed anywhere. The post has generated a ton of responses and offers to make more boxes. It’s turning out to be such a fun, wonderful thing! I went on thriftbooks and ordered five copies of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone for my inaugural donations. I plan to put a little drawing in each one. Thank you so much for this inspiration! :) Looking forward to hearing about the person with the LFL outside their home!
I have a couple in my neighborhood that are not listed either. Apparently there are a group of people who go to LFL‘s and take the books that they can resell for profit. So some are now unlisted to discourage such bad behavior.
Ouch, that's terrible. But good to know that this, too, happens. *Sigh*
That is amazing! This was my big wish with this post, that maybe people will suddenly notice LFLs in their neighborhood and start using them. Please let me know how this goes!
In looking at the books from that neighborhood, I’m intrigued by the two books in Japanese. I would love to look inside those books at the beautiful letters of their alphabet. I have a sense that this small neighborhood community is interested in exploring the world beyond the ordinary daily life. I might want to find a coffee shop in this area to sit and observe and sketch. I loved your question.
Monica, that is a great observation. This is the LFL closest to my home, and I walk by it often. I am regularly surprised by the collection of books inside, and I know it for an active library with lots of giving and taking. The books in Japanese are the first two volumes of Murakami's 1Q84 in the original Japanese, and the text inside was written top to down. I found that already fascinating, and makes me think about how we process information as readers - left to right, right to left, top to bottom.
My pic would be Alaska by James Michener. I’ve been a fan of this author since my teenage years. I love the fact that he takes you through the history of the place and people. I’m currently reading “Space”. I wish I had read his book.’Texas” when I lived in Texas because it gave me such insight into the culture there. I have a wish to travel to Alaska and it would be great to read the book before I go. Just FYI, after reading your post about the little library I found that there is one in my city, Durango, which I plan to leave a little bit of my artwork in a book when I find its location.
Oh, I might just have to go back to pick up that book! Alaska is not too far from us, and we are thinking about doing the weeklong summer cruise from Vancouver to Alaska.
In The Field! is it a mystery, is it a nature journal, is it a book of poems?? I want to know:)
It is intriguing!
We should have no need for LFLs We should all feel free to check out and check in books as our whims float on the wings of our desires.
That would be lovely, but it's also so great as a form of community engagement and connection.
What book would I take? I think the Feucht Wanger book grabs my attention because it's maybe in German and I speak German. But that might be the author and the Lisy something written below might be the title. Also there are two books with the same look but they are different sizes which I'm very curious about. In any case, if it was not a great read I could take out the pages and replace it with blank pages for a new/old journal. And I could use the discarded pages for black out poetry or in collage.
I have been so eager to try collaging with old books, and maybe this is the way to go. What a wonderful idea!
I work in a public library and have watched happily as LFL's pop up all over my town. I find it interesting how folks soon realize that having an LFL is not an easy, self-sustaining project. That the owner has to curate the collection for the folks who stop by regularly just like at a public library and that weeding the collection of donations that aren't moving is also important. That sometimes the shelves go suddenly bare and the owner doesn't want the next customer to come across bare shelves. One magical thing that I find quite lovely is that many folks restock the LFLs with books from the local public library Friends of the Library on-going booksales, which the proceeds, in turn, fund programs at the local public library. How fantastic that this circle of community revolves around books! I'm inspired by your business cards to try dropping my art around LFL's too - what a lovely idea!
Ohh that is such a lovely book cycle from library stock to LFLs! I remember reading about how libraries need to clear old stock periodically, and I loved the last time VPL had a clearance sale.
Never knew about the LFL and I've never heard about a concept like this in India at least. But I'm gonna make a mental note, keep it on the reserves of my mind till I can make it a reality in the "dream space of my dreams". One day I'll own a space and it'll have an LFL! If you know of any in India though, please do tell me. I'd love to check them out and promote them.
Vedi, check out the link at the start of the post to the main website. It has a map of all LFLs across the world. But yes, I also want to build one someday. In India, maybe in a semi private space that can be safely managed?
I FOUND FOUR IN & AROUND MUMBAI! I might do a tour and drop things off some time soon.
Oh yay! That's amazing! 👏
I do believe it'll have to be semi-private too! Checking the link now.