Here are some interesting facts about books:
1. Harvard University Library has four books bound in human skin.
2. Iceland tops the world in per capita book reading.
3. People who read books are less likly to develop Alzheimer’s disease.
4. In Brazilian prisons, reading a book can reduce a prisoner's sentnce by four days.
5. Virginia Woolf wrote all her books while standing.
6. The most stolen book is the Bible.
7. Roosevelt read an average of one book per day.
8. There are over 20,000 books written about chess.
9. Victor Hugo’s "Les Misérables" contains a sentence with 823 words.
10. Words like "hurry" and "addiction" were invented by Shakespeare.
11. If all the books in the New York Public Library were lined up, they would stretch 8 miles.
12. Leo Tolstoy's wife hand-copied the manuscript of "War and Peace" seven times.
13. Noah Webster took 36 years to write his first dictionary.
14. The Mahabharata is the only book or epic in the world with over 1,200 characters.
I just wrote 8 pages when I haven't written in months and was beginning to think I'd never be able to again. Idk what it is, but I am sharing and manifesting this energy for every writer who sees this. May you write 8 quality pages effortlessly and find joy writing once more
"It took me TWO years to finish this sketch book!" Well that's cuz you're not fuckin sketching. Those are fully painted pieces dawg that's a renderedbook. I've gone through four sketchbooks in my off time this year alone I just draw stupid faces and shit for fun. pussy up like the rest of us and start drawing stick figures with guns
It’s June 1st. Congratulations on wasting half of the year. Loser.
But wait! Progress does not live by the time constraints of the calendar! December 31st is not the last day to have it all together! January 1st isn’t the only day to start! Effort counts even when it’s not evenly spaced out across 365 days!
French essential verbs
AVOIR = TO HAVE
ETRÊ= TO BE
MANGER = TO EAT
BOIRE = TO DRINK
MARCHER : TO WALK
VOIR = TO SEE
DORMIR =TO SLEEP
ACHETER =TO BUY
VENDRE = TO SELL
PARLER = TO TALK, TO SPEAK
DIRE = TO SAY, TO TELL
LIRE = TO READ
ALLER = TO GO
VENIR = TO COME
APPRENDRE = TO LEARN
LAVER : TO WASH
UTILISER : TO USE
COUPER : TO CUT ,TO CHOP
CUISINER =TO COOK
METTRE: TO PUT
DÉPENSER : TO SPEND
ESSAYER :TO TRY ,TO TRY ON
OUBLIER : TO FORGET
FERMER : TO CLOSE
OUVRIR: TO OPEN
VERSER = TO POUR
ÉCRIR = TO WRITE
CHERCHE : TO LOOK FOR
SAVOIR = TO KNOW, TO KNOW HOW TO DO SOMETHING
VOULOUIR : TO WANT
POUVOIR = CAN , BE ABLE TO
I'm currently trying to summon back my old book mouse* spirit and start reading again.
I have already started a few weeks ago with an old favourite (from my childhood) to get used to read a bit every day again, but then I realized I was late with the school homework schedule so I have to overlap different readings, which I don't like much but I know I can do it 🐭
(the 🐀 is for currently reading, the others are to read)
🌼 school:
🐀 ~ 🇮🇹 ~ Italo Calvino Racconta L'Orlando Furioso
🇬🇧 ~ And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
💐 my choice:
🐀 ~ 🇮🇹 ~ Fairy Oak 1 - Il Segreto delle Gemelle di Elisabetta Gnone
🇮🇹 ~ Il Ritratto di Dorian Gray di Oscar Wilde
🇮🇹 ~ Cime Tempestose di Emily Brontë
* in Italy we say book mouse 🐭 and I think it's much cuter than worm, I'd like to be a mouse living in an old library(no offence to book worms 🪱 tho)
☆°~ INTRO TO MY BLOG ☆°~
Beck/Nathan, he/him!
teenager, in high school rn
really into the humanities + arts
not slaying at STEM but hoping to fix that
autistic + probably ADHD and trying to find study/learning methods that work for me
tentatively learning French + Tagalog but I am bad at languages so we try our best here
main blog is @transmasc-wizard, I'll follow and like from there
Hoping to post/reblog:
study tips to try or that work for me
journaling, scheduling, planning, etc content
other miscellaneous school tips
aesthetic content
some assorted things i like:
books: The Great Gatsby, the Secret History, the Grishaverse, the Raven Cycle
music: Hozier, the Crane Wives, MCR, Chappell Roan, Jhariah
hobbies: theatre, DND, reading, writing, drawing
Always looking for friends to exchange this stuff with !!
about me :3 || tagging system
🎨☞︎︎︎ finishing one of the two artfight attacks in my wips
📚☞︎︎︎ read and take notes on at least three chapters from Italo Calvino presenta l'Orlando furioso
🦋☞︎︎︎ begin to watch a show from my list (i was thinking mlp or sailor moon)
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during the last school year i got used to plan the next week on saturday and that works better for me than starting the week on monday like we do in italy, so i think i'll keep using this method
"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.
It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).
Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.
One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.
*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.
After dinner I started feeling really disappointed I hadn't done anything productive all day when I realized it was just 8pm. I mean, that's just the beginning of the evening right?
There's still plenty of time to reach my goals. There's still hours before today ends. It's not too late.
(I better close Tumblr now cause I'm not done yet ;))
they/them - 17y/o - adhd - highschool student | pictures are from pinterest unless otherwise stated |
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