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Books & Cupcakes, Photo Challenge, April 15th: Quote “It will be difficult. You might notice some problems with walking and with life in general. You should look at the sky and scream about how empty it is at least twice a day.” Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, Welcome to Night Vale

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“I really can’t claim to being a science-fiction man either. Fantasy was really more my bag. And I’m very much a Johnny-Come-Lately into that. The guys – the really key men – like Asimov, Clarke, Bradbury – they all preceded me by years and years and have a body of literature to show for it. I have nothing but a television show. My only claim is that I put science-fiction and fantasy into a mass media more than any other person.”

— Rod Serling

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Old 19th century books with gauffered page edges .. Repeated patterns made using a heated tool

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So I just finished Slaughterhouse Five and while I wont say I loved it I do like that a majority of the book does focus on Billy in the war and showing like, how terrible war is.

I wont declare that it’s a terrible classic like I have with.. other classics I wont name. It is an important book to read I feel, despite the cheesey alien stuff.

Now I have to start reading The Prince by Machiavelli for my Lit class, and I’m gonna finish that book before I pick up any others (because I’m still also reading three other books lol)

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Book Review: “The Martian” by Andy Weir

I’m stranded on Mars. I have no way to communicate with Earth. I’m in a Habitat designed to last 31 days. If the Oxygenator breaks down, I’ll suffocate. If the Water Reclaimer breaks down, I’ll die of thirst. If the Hab breaches, I’ll just kind of explode. If none of those things happen, I’ll eventually run out of food and starve to death. So yeah. I’m screwed.

Rating: ★★★★☆

A really, really good book! Mark Watney is amazing; I laughed so much reading his log entries. Also he’s the person I’d chose to save me in a zombie apocalypse. (On Earth as well as on Mars.)

Why only 4 stars? Because for someone like me, with virtually no knowledge on space missions, physics and chemistry, some passages were too long and too hard to understand. If I were a science nerd, I’m sure I’d give this novel 5 stars. 

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@bookcub you may be interested in the book I started reading last night.

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BPC: 2 / 19 / 18, Corrupt Government

I might have played a little fast and loose with my definition of “corrupt government”.

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It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particularly long to learn that for yourself. There is a theory that, in the whole world, there are only five hundred real people (the cast, as it were; all the rest of the people in the world, the theory suggests, are extras) and what is more, they all know each other. And it’s true, or true as far as it goes. In reality the world is made of thousands upon thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It’s not even coincidence. It’s just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or for propriety.

Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys  (via bloodmoonbooks)

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Pretend the uke is a lute.

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As usual a good overview of the book with some personal opinions I agree with.

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A great first episode and first read! A good synopsis on why this one stands the test of time amoung so many other stories like it.

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I am now starting The Last Olympian for my February Series of the Month!  So far I’ve really enjoyed the series, and it’s been building to what should be an awesome finale.  Hopefully it lives up to the expectations I’ve set.  

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The Inkheart trilogy by Cornelia Funke is the series that really made me fall in love with the act of reading books. I mean, I’ve loved reading ever since I was little, but this book just portrayed this love so well 🙆🏻‍♂️ And isn’t this cover just the most gorgeous one you’ve ever seen?! I’d love to dive back into this magical world one day! 📚✨ . . #thebossbookchallenge: Glory Days - Book from your youth 👋🏻👧🏻

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People who don’t want to read The Martian in case the science is too complicated should be informed that it contains the lines “The best way to store the ingredients of water is to make them be water”, “It is of course dangerous to set off an explosive device on a spacecraft”, and “If I cut a hole in the wall of the hab, the air won’t stay inside any more”.

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BPC: 2 / 5 / 18, Need to Read

I have like a bazillion books that I need to read, but these ones in particular get me funny looks when I tell people I haven’t read them yet.