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Home library of the late Richard Macksey, legendary Hopkins prof.

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breakfast ☕️📖

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Ralph Fleck (German, 1951), Stapel 27/VII [Stack 27/VII], 2013. Oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm.

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Secondhand bookshop in Kyoto

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Vincent van Gogh Still Life with French Novels and Glass with a Rose 1887

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they don't want you to know this but rereading books is not a waste of time and is actually even more fun than the first time around

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Russia’s village libraries. Photos by Ksenia Inverse

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how i want my days to look like

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elaborate book covers

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I can behave normally around books

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zlibrary gone... FUCK TIKTOK FUCK BOOKTOK I hope that app burns in hell

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sometimes i forget how reading is just. marvelous. just an absolutely fucking endlessly joyful activity. i’ll go about my life and not read one single book for months and be like why am i morose! why am i so apathetic! what is missing here!!!! and try to look for whatever it is that is lacking and never find it anywhere and i get so tired and sad and angry, and then i’m finally like i’m gonna stop everything for a couple days and read a really good book bc i don’t care about anything else. and suddenly i get motivated to work bc i know i’ll read when i’m on break. i get more creative. i want to watercolor again and bust out the shameful fabric stash with all my unfinished sewing projects. god even my dreams get more vivid!! what the fuck! and i’m like here is the magic i was looking for, why did i ever think i was going to find it anywhere else. it was always here!!!

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2024 read

January

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

The Chalice of the Gods by Rick Riordan

February

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

March

Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman

The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

April

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse by Beatrix Potter

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

May

A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle

A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle

June

Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle

An Acceptable Time by Madeleine L'Engle

The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket

The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket

The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket

The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (reread)

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson by Beatrix Potter

July

The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien (reread)

The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien (reread)

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (reread)

August

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket

The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket

The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket

The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket

The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket

The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket

The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket

The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket

The End by Lemony Snicket

Hamlet by William Shakespeare (reread)

September

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (reread)

Who Could That Be at This Hour? by Lemony Snicket

Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl

When Did You See Her Last? by Lemony Snicket

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

October

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Time Travelling with a Hamster by Ross Welford

The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice

Shady Hollow by Juneau Black

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

November

The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore

currently reading

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

2024 to-read

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb