In Japanese, tsundoku means, “the act of buying books and not reading them, leaving them to pile up.”
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but you *have* to buy those books. otherwise one either forgets to buy them later on, or they get out of print. but they do get read at one time or another.
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My cat is sad because books are sometimes not about what they say they’re about.
A Workout For Book Nerds
All you need for this workout is a stack of hardcovers and some yarn or rope to tie them together!
Workout #1: The Book Curl
Workout #2: The Book Up
Workout #3: The Brunch (Book Crunch) - Just like brunch this can be done alone or with a friend!
Cool Down
I can totally do this. even only for the cool down.
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Colin Firth on reading, and he’s exactly right.
exactly. but then, it’s Mr. Darcy talking here.
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The Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford, England by curry15
I’ve actually been in here. needed to take some notes. even if you’re an Oxford member, you still need special permission from one of the All Souls’ fellows. possibly the quietest place on earth, save a desert or the North Pole.
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this. plus a more comfortable sitting arrangement. srsly, I’m not reading in that wooden thing.
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