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34 Reading Goals For 2015

Here is a picture of J.R.R. Tolkien looking at some flowers in a greenhouse. Apparently, he was the worst person to take walks with because he liked to stop and observe every tree he passed very carefully. We can only assume that he did this because he was waiting for them all to reveal their true Ent nature and speak to him. Ents do speak slowly, after all. They were probably between words while he was watching.

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At Last by Edward St. Aubyn

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins

Flight by Sherman Alexie

The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass

Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy

The Serpent of Venice by Christopher Moore

Lucky Us by Amy Bloom

Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

When you show your significant other (of not that longish) your likes on Tumblr - and that set of wedding dress photos that you liked and forgot about (most likely when you were inebriated) is in the feed - so you quickly scroll past although you just spent a minute describing why you liked each and every one of the other posts....

Bookstore in the Netherlands

Saw this on Facebook, but I have greater reach hear

“Book Alchemy” by Jacqueline Rush Lee

Kitty feet.