Spectacular Ceilings, Typewriter Art, Capitals Quiz & More: Endnotes 29 November

Every Friday, we celebrate the weekend — and all the reading and relaxing and daydreaming time ahead — with Melissa's favorite book- and travel-related links of the week. Why work when you can read fun stuff?!

This post is part of our Endnotes series.

Those stunning bookshelves above? That’s the Byeol-Madang Library with a collection of more than 50,000 books and 600 magazines. It’s free to browse and read the books; the shelves are 13 meters (42 feet) tall; and oh, yeah… It’s inside a mall! The Starfield COEX Mall can be found in Gangnam-gu Seoul, South Korea. Aside from boasting a beautiful library, it’s also the largest underground mall in Asia with a kimchi museum, an aquarium, and a mega theater. {more}

• Lessons learned from this link: 1. It really is possible to make art anywhere. 2. Always carry a good book on the plane.

• News we can use: 13 Filming Locations From The Crown You Can Visit IRL (We are all-in on The Crown.)

• Can you beat our score of 22/30 on this Name the Capitals quiz?!

• Best travel advice: Don’t forget to look up.

• These charming illustrations tell a tender, poignant story of love and loss.

• Whoa! Artists transform and recycle old typewriters into an octopus and shiny machine guns: ‘… the Typewriter Guns link words and arms together, evoking that words are stronger than guns and tie the history of the press with the history of war.’

• Our Weekend Getaway book this week is the wildly entertaining and somewhat sobering novel The Warehouse by Rob Hart. Over at the wonderful literary site Largehearted Boy, Rob shares his music playlist for The Warehouse. Music + book = total immersion. (Pssst… did you know we’ve got a handy page with all of our Weekend Getaway recommendations in one place?)

• Just look at Jodi Harvey’s enchanting paper sculptures made from books.

• Book translation is a somewhat magical process. Here’s how translated fiction opens up the world.

• Specific vocabulary is my love language. May I introduce you to GLUGGAVEÐUR?

• This looks like a magical tower from a children’s story.

• Bookish podcast of the week: On The Guardian Books podcast, writers Rory MacLean and Luke Harding answer the question ‘How true does travel writing need to be?’

• Travel podcast of the week: On The Thoughtful Travel Podcast, host Amanda Kendle chats with Tony Wheeler, the founder of Lonely Planet, about travel adventures, what he’s learned from his travels, and why he’s smitten with different modes of transportation.

Happy weekend! Let’s all eat too much and read a lot.

Top image courtesy of Josip I..