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“I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.” ― Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Books . So there is this most wonderful restaurant right next to my flat and today I gathered enough of courage to go in and there was this giant bookshelf ❤❤❤ And the books spoke to me: come in, have a drink and spend some time with us. SO now I have a perfect plan for weekend 📚 Hey folks. How are you doing? I finished a book on Kitty Genovese who was murdered in 1964 in plain sight of thirty-eight neighbors who “didn’t want to get involved.” Good book...4/5 ⭐s. . Then I realized that I have lost my library card 😱😭 the silly thing is always hiding itself from me 😧 “You might belong in Gryffindor, Where dwell the brave at heart, Their daring, nerve, and chivalry, Set Gryffindors apart; You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true, And unafraid of toil; Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, If you've a ready mind,  Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind; Or perhaps in Slytherin, You'll make your real friends, These cunning folks use any means To achieve their ends.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone . 🐍🐍🐍 Nothing to get you back to reading like our old friend Potter. Never let go of what you love ❤ 📚 Also hi 👋 it's been a while...a month? 🙈 Missed you guys HUGO AWARDS CEREMONY!! 😍 Best moments of my life and this thing hasn't even started yet... i am hopelessly  a lover and a dreamer and that will be the death of me Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey Today's library haul. I borrowed a book by German author Florian Huber that hasn't been translated into English and I think it should be. Kind, versprich mir, das du dich erschiesst freely translated as Child, promise me that you will kill yourself (white book in the middle) describes something you won't learn in your history lessons. Book describes a German city of where over 1000 people took their own lives, in less than 72 hours to avoid the horrors of the Red Army. A lot of people don't get what war is about. It's not about who won or who lost. Not about the medals. Not about the few heroic individuals. It's about human tradegy. When you die out of desperation. When you have no choice. 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 😍

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