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reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)
The best of Better Book Titles is now available in book form!
Never Flirt with Puppy Killers: And Other Better Book Titles makes a great gift for any literature geek!
Historian and Feminist Scholar Gerda Lerner
This was a good response to the “80 books every man should read” that Esquire put out last year… Literary Hub was a new find by me on facebook and I’ve really enjoyed the articles I’ve read from them so far!!
Tristram and Iseult by Henry Ospovat
Headed to Rotterdam - these are a few of my favorite things.
Powell’s Favorites
At Last by Edward St. Aubyn
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Flight by Sherman Alexie
The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass
Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
The Serpent of Venice by Christopher Moore
Lucky Us by Amy Bloom
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Watch: Michelle Obama’s speech on the Trump tapes should be required viewing for all Americans
Sunita Williams (b. 1965) is an astronaut who holds the record for most spacewalk time (50 hours, 40 minutes), as well as most spacewalks (seven) by a woman. She served as a member, and later flight engineer, on four expeditions on the International Space Station.
She served in the US Navy as a Naval Test Pilot, with more than 3000 flight hours on 30 different aircraft types. Onboard the ISS in 2007, she was the first person to complete a marathon in space, running along to the Boston Marathon, which she finished in 4 hours and 24 minutes.
Here is a picture of J.R.R. Tolkien looking at some flowers in a greenhouse. Apparently, he was the worst person to take walks with because he liked to stop and observe every tree he passed very carefully. We can only assume that he did this because he was waiting for them all to reveal their true Ent nature and speak to him. Ents do speak slowly, after all. They were probably between words while he was watching.
My favorite kind of morning.
Fairy tales on a rainy Sunday for @bibliophilicwitch tomes and tea. Drink is mt dew cause I need caffeine today.
calling all the booklrs
if you are a book blog please reblog this
my dash is superduper slow and I need more awesome blogs to follow. if you reblog this then I can check your blog out and probably follow you too (and if you wanna check out my blog that’d be cool too)
About to embark on this 961 page journey.
Neko Atsume for real.
Genuine Book Nook. Japanese YOY chair. Source: Digsdigs.
A birthday gift to myself
When you show your significant other (of not that longish) your likes on Tumblr - and that set of wedding dress photos that you liked and forgot about (most likely when you were inebriated) is in the feed - so you quickly scroll past although you just spent a minute describing why you liked each and every one of the other posts....