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Never Flirt with Puppy Killers: And Other Better Book Titles makes a great gift for any literature geek!

I love to browse the Q section of the stacks - growing up on Bill Nye the Science Guy, I have a healthy appreciation for the general sciences! This interesting book really caught my eye, as there are a wide variety of images made me want to learn more about it. Published in 1636, here is Delicia Physic-Mathematicae, a book about scientific recreations and ideas for inventions. Daniel Schwenter (Schwender) is the author of this book, and he was also a mathematician, inventor, poet, and librarian!

Want to read this entire book? Check it out on Google Books!

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-Lindsay M.

Book Photo Challenge | June 2015 | Nature

40 Tiny Tasks for a Richer Reading Life

2016, The Year We Defeat out Backlist TBR Sometimes, in a well meaning way, you purchase books, or get books with every intention to read them. But then time passes. And it passes. Like, imagine a comically large amount of time. But you just don’t get around to reading that book. Then that book becomes 20, 50, 100 books on your shelf that you haven’t read yet and you’re just like dying? Well not this year! Not for us. We’ve committed ourselves to reading the following twelve books, one book a month to catch up on our ever-growing TBR. Read on to see what books we picked and if YOU want to join the challenge, then comment or tweet us with a picture of your books! Read more here: http://bit.ly/1n0sFED

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn

I’ll take any lucks I can get. 

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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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