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World book day again! <3 in german: http://schlogger.de/wordpress/gehirnfurz-116-bucher-sind-wie-babies/

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World Book Day

Read a book, learn your world.

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“When a room becomes cluttered, the cause is more than just physical. Visible mess helps distract us from the true source of the disorder. The act of cluttering is really an instinctive reflex that draws our attention away from the heart of an issue. If you can’t feel relaxed in a clean and tidy room, try confronting your feeling of anxiety. It may shed light on what is really bothering you. When your room is clean and uncluttered, you have no choice but to examine your inner state. You can see any issues you have been avoiding and are forced to deal with them.”

-Marie Kondo, THE LIFE-CHANGING MAGIC OF TIDYING UP

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Confessions of an English Opium Eater, by Thomas De Quincey

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The Hidden Girl - A True Story of the Holocaust, Lola Rein Kaufman with Lois Metzger

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Snowing in Bali - The Incredible Inside Account of Bali’s Hidden Drug World, by Kathryn Bonella.

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They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky - The true story of three lost boys from Sudan, by Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, and Benjamin Ajak, with Judy A. Bernstein.

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Porochista Khakpour on Can Xue

In 2010, I was teaching a World Literature intro class at an arts college in Santa Fe and Daniel Halpern’s international reader The Art of the Story (2000) was one of my principal texts. In the collection there were only a couple writers I had never heard of and one was Can Xue, of China, whose story “The Child Who Raised Poisonous Snakes” was one of the strangest, most haunting stories I had ever read. My tastes have always veered toward the magical, absurd, dark, and the deeply and genuinely bizarre, so it hooked me, rather relentlessly. It got deep into me and became a part of me rather immediately, as if absorbed into my bloodstream. My daydream life—an indispensable part of any writer-brain—for weeks felt drenched by this tale. I finally decided to teach it, though I had no idea how to teach it. I felt speechless before it and nobody said much the whole class. Some of my students said they were traumatized by it—and a few also shared my obsession. Occasionally after that class ended, even months after and in one case years after, I’d still get emails from those students: what was that story about the kid with the snakebites, who ate snakes? Which does it a disservice, of course—which should tell you something not just about that story, but what it means to read Can Xue.

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Eh. Not too bad as it's only March... Especially since I tend to spend a lot of time back and forth the Internet looking up Wikipedia and other sites for facts and further elaborations...

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American Sniper, by Chris Kyle

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New reads. To be shelved soon!

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"Burned Alive" by Souad.

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Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond, by Don Cheadle, John Prendergast. "Remember: silence helps the killer, never his victims." - Professor Elie Wiesel

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99 PROBLEMS BOOK - PRE-ORDER NOW! I’m incredibly excited to announce 99 Problems is now a book!

PLACES TO PRE-ORDER:

USA: Amazon (US) | Barnes & Noble | Powells | IndieBound UK: Amazon (UK) | Waterstones | Foyles | WH Smith Ebook: Amazon Kindle | iBooks | Google Play

PRE-ORDER COMPETITION

If you pre-order your copy of 99 PROBLEMS and fill out this form, you’ll be entered into a prize draw to win a signed limited edition print of the sold out “Can’t Get Dirt Off Shoulder” (#1 of 99) 10 other winners will receive signed 99 Problems A1 Posters.

(Offer expires 8th February 2015)

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We’re kicking off 2015 with two really big announcements.

1) Macmillan books are now on Oyster. Macmillan is one of the largest publishers in the world and distributes some of the most iconic books out there. We’re thrilled to have books from across their well-known imprints—new...

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Hopefully this will be a great start to the year - reading challenge wise.