“My twins dressed up as Dorothy and the Lion one year. The Lion suit has now been passed down through three generations.”
Have a great Oz photo? Click here to submit it to NPR’s Backseat Book Club.
The Book of Revelation, the final book of the New Testament, has some of the most dramatic and frightening language in the Bible.
On today’s Fresh Air, Princeton University religious professor Elaine Pagels, places the Book of Revelation in its historical context and explores where the book’s apocalyptic vision of the end of the world comes from.
This photo tour of the Shelleys’ and Byron’s Lake Geneva, where Frankenstein, “The Vampyre,” and “Prisoner of Chillon” were conceived one summer, is almost as great as Mary Shelley’s draft of Frankenstein. (via sarahwrotethat.)
You get ten choices, and the results will be shared August 11.
My votes:
One of my favorite used bookstores (taken November, 2006). The box on the door accept payments after hours for the books on the shelves outside.
Yes, that sign on the door says “No Smoking, No Shooting, No Mooning”.
The Reader’s Corner
3201 Hillsborough St
Raleigh, NC 27607
(919) 828-7024
www.abebooks.com/home/IRVAN