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My fave #ChristmasTraditions! 🎄🥰 Last night our fam went to the @U_PlaceOrem & each bought something from the #LightTheWorld ✨ #GivingMachines! My parents bought a #goat 🐐, sibs bought food & #socks 🧦, & I didn't have as much to spend, but I got #SchoolSupplies! 🎒

I'm excited! For #MothersDay our family has tickets for #TheSheepDetective next week. 🐏🔎🐑

COVER REVEAL!!! THE FRACTURED LIFE OF LUCY HUGHES is a contemporary fiction novel about a woman whose viral Jumbotron proposal fractures her future into two very different paths. It’s a modern Sliding Doors story for anyone who has ever felt like both too much and not enough.

GREAT.

A recent hobby of mine is to research different Bible translations and premium printings. Bibles are like vehicles, and can vary in price depending on quality, purpose, and need. This is the most expensive Bible I have found, and it’s beautiful. If only I had the money …

IT WAS CALLED THE SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR AND THEY BROUGHT THE BOOKS TO THE SCHOOL AND SET IT UP LIKE A BOOKSTORE AND YOU COULD GET GOOSEBUMPS AND FEAR STREET BOOKS BUT ALSO MICHAEL JORDAN POSTERS AND NICKELODEON BOOKMARKS AND PENCILS THAT SMELLED LIKE CUPCAKES

We all end up feeling this way I think. 😭😅

Not gonna lie, this is very funny

“Why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? It won't hurt him.” Nabokov to his New Yorker editor.

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: “It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones. “There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion. “If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice! “Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”

A new Banksy sculpture appears in central London….people are saying it is depicting "a politician or other official blinded by patriotism and walking directly into danger" 🔥 Banksy confirmed the work is his by posting this video on his IG👇

“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” – A. A. Milne As we mark the 100th anniversary of the beloved Winnie-the-Pooh stories, The Queen has presented a very special gift to the New York Public Library, reuniting baby Roo with his friends from the 100 Acre Wood. The Library is home to the original collection of toys owned by Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A. Milne, which inspired the characters in the beloved Winnie-the-Pooh series. The collection is missing Roo, the baby kangaroo who was lost in an orchard in the 1930s. The new addition of Roo was created by Shropshire-based company Merrythought, who also created the original toys. 👀 Watch Roo’s great adventure travelling from Buckingham Palace onboard Their Majesties’ flight to his new home in New York.

I feel attacked💀🤣

People are dunking on this, but what a great sign that a word has truly established itself in the lexicon.

I did not grow up in a family of readers. When I asked my mother if I could go see The Two Towers, she said, in a tone of utmost horror, “I can’t believe they would dare make a movie about that awful day!”

The city of Andernach, Germany planted 101 varieties of tomatoes in the town center and told everyone to take whatever they wanted. It was such a hit they did beans the next year, then added onions, fruit trees, lettuce, zucchini, berries, and herbs. All free to the public and maintained by the city. Andernach is now known as the "edible city." Philadelphia has been doing a version of this since 2007. The Philadelphia Orchard Project has helped establish 67 sites across the city with thousands of food-bearing trees. Baltimore is planting fruit trees on sidewalks. Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, and Asheville all have public urban orchards. A mature apple tree produces 400-500 pounds of fruit per year. A mature pear tree can produce for 75 years. We've decided our cities should have trees. We just haven't decided those trees should feed people. Would you support urban fruit trees and vegetables in your city?

It gives me great pleasure to share that “Patrick Stewart Performs the Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare” is available now! If you followed my Sonnet-A-Day pandemic series, you’ll know the inspiration behind this project and the wonderful community that brought this to life.  All 154 of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, recorded with commentary by yours truly, are now available: bit.ly/PatrickStewart… @SimonAudio

The guy who invented Peeps has one of the most interesting stores I’ve ever heard: Sam Born was a Russian Jewish immigrant who studied to become a rabbi in Ukraine. - Came to America. Made candy instead. - Named his company "Just Born", a pun on his last name plus the fact he made everything fresh daily. - In 1953, it took 27 hours to make one tray of Peeps with 80 workers spooning marshmallow into molds by hand. - Sam's son Bob automated it down to 6 minutes. Same machine design still runs today. Today they make 2 billion Peeps a year. All out of Bethlehem, PA. #1 non-chocolate Easter candy for 20+ years. Russian Jewish immigrant studying to be a rabbi accidentally builds most iconic Easter candy in America out of a town called Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Maybe the most American story I've ever heard.