99 legal sites to download literature
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Men to Avoid in Art and Life by Nicole Tersigni
Men to Avoid in Art and Life pairs classical fine art with modern captions that epitomize the spirit of mansplaining.
https://www.amazon.com/Men-Avoid-Life-Nicole-Tersigni/dp/1797202839/ref=sr_1_3
Ooohh! Angel of Darkness is starting in July on TNT. If you haven't read this book by Caleb Carr--the sequel to The Alienist--you still have time before this airs.
I wish Carr, who reignited the Victorian Era thriller genre, had written more books with these characters so that future seasons could be available. This cast featuring Luke Evans, Dakota Fanning, and Daniel Brühl, has wonderful chemistry working together.
10 most checked out books in 125 year history of NY Public Library:
1. The Snowy Day (485,583 checkouts)
2. The Cat in the Hat (469,650)
3. 1984 (441,770)
4. Where the Wild Things Are (436,016)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird (422,912)
6. Charlotte’s Web (337,948)
7. Fahrenheit 451 (316,404)
8. How to Win Friends and Influence People (284,524)
9. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (231,022)
10. The Very Hungry Caterpillar (189,550)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/books/ny-public-library-top-books-history.html
Between long work hours, riveting impeachment hearings, and little time to read, I've had a hard time staying interested in a book.
So I decided to try something a little different.
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris.
It's a biography with gruesome stories of patients and their agony at Victorian era hospitals intertwined with the studies of Joseph Lister.
I'm completely hooked!
Bombed library at Holland House with readers choosing books regardless of the damage, 1940. The House was heavily bombed during WWII and remained derelict until 1952 when parts of the remains were preserved.
OMG!!
A new memoir by Flea..
~You’ll put down Acid for the Children with your human sympathies expanded; you’ll feel less alone.~
@Nexpr Okay.. the Goblin of Mars part was an awesome story, scary as fuck, but awesome!
“Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times?” Mo had said..”As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells..and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower..both strange and familiar.”
~ Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity, and this passion is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish…
~ A. Edward Newton
What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?