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Books take us to other worlds; they let us live lives we could only dream. We immerse ourselves in them and the characters take on their own personality in us. We never forget what they teach us. And we always keep a part of their story within ourselves. Books are our Paradise.

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Small bookshop.

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Yom Kippur has begun!

גמר חתימה טובה - May you each be sealed in the Book of Life!

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Why is the World Lonely?

This connectivity is overwhelming

My heart yearns for connectivity

Is it me that doesnt work?

Do I just breath and beat for the world to continue moving?

If this is what it's like to be alive how does anyone live?

This is not the world I thought it was, forgive me for wanting what I thought you were offering.

Heart and soul, mind and body, connected via text and appraised via image.

We are all connected in this world and we live like it. I thought there was more but it seems like there isn't.

-The Observation #1

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Another small town Bookstore piled with books and secret nooks, behind winding shelves of dust and ancient covers. The smell, the look, the feeling of getting lost. It cannot be so easy to get so lost in a place and yet in here, it was as if I was losing myself one shelf at a time.

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Score #1 from the local Library book sale. It's worth it for me to go to all the library book sales in my area. Personally, I like used and old books and once in a while you get a beautiful rare gem which not only makes it all worth it, but also makes your heart happy. This beautiful book is my gem.

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THE GREAT GOD PAN AND OTHER HORROR STORIES "What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams." Werner Herzog Loving this edition from Oxford University Press!

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Next read for me, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley Let's start 2018 off right!

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"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore" Henry Ward Beecher

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"The value is in the worth, not in the number.”  Aesop, Aesop's Fables

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Whenever finals week rolls around, I always remember my need to study.

But then it's like 1am and I'm 200 pages into my new book and I just think...

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Banned Books Week part 2 Controversial, and possibly one of the most talked about books not only in America but the world. Lolita was banned as obscene in France from 1956-1959, in England from 1955-59, Argentina in 1959, and New Zealand in 1960. In 1958, Orville Prescott wrote in The New York Times that these acts of censorship actually led to its American publication being “preceded by a fanfare of publicity.” Prescott noted: “Mr. Nabokov is particularly lucky because his book was not censored in the United States, but in France of all places. What more could he hope for?” Though no longer banned, Nabokov’s tale of twisted love remains a point of contention in literature curricula across the United States, challenged as recently as 2006 in Marion County public library in Ocala, Florida, for its themes of pedophilia and incest. Taken from Politics and Prose Read More here. http://www.politics-prose.com/book-notes/banned-book-lolita

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Sappho

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“The Sleepy Residents of Birdcage Manner Dreaming of feathers and wings of light Feeling their way through a cage made of shadows. Lost in their towers of unconsciousness. The sleepy residents of the dark How can they sleep through the night? Those sleepy caged birds that hide from the light.”

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Anyone gearing up for banned books week? Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs was banned in the United States because of obscenity laws.  The book’s subject matter deals with drug use, sexually explicit acts and obscene language. Celebrate the freedom of reading Sept. 24- Sept. 30 !!!!!!!

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How do you read? Fig. 5 Mr. Lonely.

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"But why don't you take him with you into the light? He does not deserve the light, he deserves peace”  ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

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America at Work. Poem by Charles Bukowski