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Helsinki Book Fair 2016

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Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read  2. The right to skip pages  3. The right to not finish  4. The right to reread  5. The right to read anything  6. The right to escapism  7. The right to read anywhere  8. The right to browse  9. The right to read out loud  10. The right to not defend your tastes Daniel Pennac I always leave my books behind when I'm moving and I really missed my old friends ❤📚 "Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them." -Samuel Butler And I think I'm imprisoned too, but in my own mind and when I open a book, it sets me free. Gives me a new world to explore. So it's a good deal all in all. "Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace." Helene Hanff This weekend I had places to go to and things to do and I ended up in a book shop 😍 just look at these beautiful babies. Also I watched Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 👱‍♀️Such a wonderful movie 😁 "Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt." Lauren Willig Yesterday I found my new home 😍 I love looking at old books ♥️📚and think about how they have survived through time... "In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them." Mark Twain Guys ♥️ I have found the best bookroom ever. And I have found my new favourite place in the whole world ♥️If they miss me at work...I'll be here...absorbing all the wisdom 📚 Kansalliskirjasto ♥️😍📖 "Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment. Hannu Rajaniemi, The Fractal Prince (Jean le Flambeur, #2) Hey folks 😁I theoretically got a new phone and it finally allows me to see Facebook and Instagram stories and it's pretty cool...And all the apps are working. But I think my old Windows Phone felt like Woody in Toy Story 1 so now the battery of my old phone runs out in lightning speed...😣😐Then my new phone doesn't have see no /hear no /speak no evil monkeys 😭 ...to summarize I'm experiencing #firstworldproblems XD Anyways hope you're good 😘 “Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.” ― Stephen King, It . Finnish edition of IT has absolutely gorgeous covers 😍 I'm coming down with something 😷 I wanted to explore my new neighborhood but I guess I'll leave it for tomorrow ☀ “Based on the experience of my life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it's not broke, don't fix it. And would go even further to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you'll probably make it worse.” ― George Saunders, Tenth of December . I'm looking forward to reading Tenth of December as I was born that day so I kind of feel like this was written for me 😌 I don't know. I hope I like it. Also I moved and didn't have any books at the new apartment but now I discovered local library = apartment feels much homier 😁❤ “...it's survival of the fittest, not the strongest or the biggest.” ― Ali Shaw, The Trees . Shaw's pretty new book 😍 “For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.” ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life . I'm reading City of Thieves by David Benioff ❤❤💔 I don't know how I always find fiction where war is central 💔 Sorry I haven't been posting...my life's been crazy 👀 How's your weekend been? What are you reading? 📖 “If a bird’s hair cells are damaged by disease or loud noises—say, by the blasting decibels of a rock concert in a domed stadium—they can regenerate. Ours can’t.” ― Jennifer Ackerman, The Genius of Birds . Reading Genius of Birds. So far so good 🐤 . Lukuvuorossa @atenakustannus uutuus Jennifer Ackermanin Viisaat linnut. Tähän mennessä mielenkiintoista faktaa, joka muuttaa sen miten näet linnunaivot. “Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.” - Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas, #1) . I haven't been posting in a while 🙈 My mother brought me some books yesterday and one of them was Odd Thomas 😁 which I haven't read in a long time ^^ Hope you have a great weekend! 🍸 “Because it is the nature of Dreams, and ONLY of Dreams, to define Reality. Destiny is bound to existence. Death is limited by what she will or will not accept.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Overture . I've been reading a lot of comics this year but Overture has been one of the few 5/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 reads because Gaiman has a way with words and illustrations by J.H.Williams III & Dave Stewart are gorgeous ✨❤✨ and also this mini rainbow 🌈 in my room fit the covers perfectly 😂✌ “We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” ― Franz Kafka . Thank you for 2,3K 💘💘💘 and thank you for liking and following! ^^ I'm so stressed 😂 ...swapping jobs, finding an apartment...though today I watched TED talk about how stress is actually good for you. Helps your body fight and overcome difficult situations. How are you doing? Here's what I recently got from a local library 📚📖 “When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.” ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows . Yeah... I guess my hand looks weird in this one XDI have a weekend off ^^ = I've been watching Handmaid's Tale...I like it so far 💻 it's a dystopian world that could easily become reality... also been reading this and trying to read ACOWAR but I can't because then it'll be over o.O

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