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Happy Birthday F. Scott Fitzgerald. Born #OnThisDay in 1896. http://ift.tt/2rj41UY

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Happy Birthday to author, H.G. Wells, born #OnThisDay in 1866 http://ift.tt/2rjkxVd

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"James’s impressive third novel sets the attempted assassination of Bob Marley against the cacophony and violence of Jamaica as the CIA moved in" – Kie James, The Guardian. Congratulations to Marlon James for making the Man Booker 2015 shortlist, read it on the Blloon app now: http://buff.ly/1Jbo6e4

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Hello September! *waves* - photo by Ben Regali #Autumn #September #seasons #poetry #quotes #williamcullenbryant #writing #words #indiansummer http://ift.tt/2qO3bw5

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Bank Holiday Monday Agenda http://ift.tt/2rj41nW

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"Now make four fat juicy patties with your hands." Happy #NationalBurgerDay! Check out Ernest Hemingway's hamburger recipe for the ultimate moveable feast (of burgers!). ;) http://ift.tt/2qNSbyZ

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#mondaymotivation coming from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Have a great week! Be fearless! #frankenstein #maryshelley #scifi #horror #gothic #fiction #novel #literature #monster #book #books #booklove #booknerd #bookworm #bookstagram #bookaddict #bookstagrammer #bookaholic #bibliophile #literaturequotes #quote #inspiringquotes #inspiration #power #fearless

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Looking for a gripping, yet intelligent book to read? Our new Joyce Carol Oates readlist is a great place to start...we guarantee you'll be hooked: http://buff.ly/1KxeDzF

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“We all have our time machines, don’t we. Those that take us back are memories… And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”

H.G. Wells (via lonequixote)

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"IT SEEMS THEY WERE ALL CHEATED OF SOME MARVELLOUS EXPERIENCE WHICH IS NOT GOING TO GO WASTED ON ME WHICH IS WHY I’M TELLING YOU ABOUT IT. 

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Story of our lives... :) http://ift.tt/1Kwtu0L

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Selfie-obsessed! The invasive trend of museum selfies via BBC culture. http://t.co/H6mUjnTL5V http://t.co/W7Kxg4pHUb

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Hot air balloon mug fits in nicely with my colourful bookshelf :) #bookporn #booktube #booklover #bookshelf #bookstagram #booknerdigans

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This hot air balloon mug is just our cup of tea. ☺️

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“Like rain it sounded till it curved"

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"Families like to have a mythic understanding of themselves." Anne Tyler #ManBooker2015--> http://buff.ly/1ijtJkN

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A final book recommendation from Oliver Sacks

Four weeks before Oliver Sacks died, he sent surgeon and writer Atul Gawande a letter. The letter detailed Sacks’s latest literary endeavours; he was writing a piece on eyes 👀 and another piece on the “deadly” effects of social media. The latter topic led him to the discovery of a E.M. Forster short sci-fi story The Machine Stops. 

Gawande writes in The New Yorker :

Sacks had asked me whether I’d read Forster’s The Machine Stops. I hadn’t, but his letter prompted me to, and I see why he was so drawn to it. It’s about a world in which individuals live isolated in cells, fearful of self-reliance and direct experience, dependent on plate screens, instant messages, and the ministrations of an all-competent Machine. Yet there is also a boy who, like Sacks, saw what was missing.

Read The Machine Stops on the Blloon app and draw your own lines between Forster’s eerily prophetic century-old short story and our social-media-soaked reality.

Once you’re done with Forster, Gawande’s books -- including his latest Being Mortal -- are also available to read on Blloon. Download now for a veritable book beanfeast. Let us know your thoughts via Twitter or Instagram. 

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The Blloon highlights are looking particularly dashing today. We have Man Booker Prize Fever!