Quote "Someone else is happy with less than you have." Unknown Joke I walked into my sister's room and tripped on a bra... It was a booby trap Fun Fact 4% of the sand on Normandy beach is made up of shrapnel from D-Day that has broken down. Reading Fact The M6 toll road in the UK was built on two and a half million copies of pulped fiction to prevent it from cracking. The damaged and end-of-the-line Mills & Boon novels were shredded at a recycling firm in south Wales and late

This week has been very productive with reading 3 books and getting 2 more books in a book Haul! I read 1. Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover 2. First and Forever by Lynn Painter 3. Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve I hauled 1. Rites of the Starling by Devney Perry 2. Alchemised by Sen Lin Yu This is what I thought about each book that I read this week. Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover This book was super cute. We get duel perspectives on this story and it is really well don

Quote "The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least." Unknown Joke Sleeping comes so naturally to me, I could do it with my eyes closed Fun Fact A "buttload" is a real measurement of weight. Reading Fact Librarians were once taught a special rounded style of handwriting to ensure uniformity and legibility in catalogs. The handwriting style, called the “library hand,” was developed by Thomas Alva Edison in 1885. Based on Edison’s own handwriting, the

Quote "If you want to feel rich, just count all the gifts you have that money can’t buy." Unknown Joke How does Moses make coffee? Hebrews it Fun Fact Lego is the largest tire manufacturer in the world. Reading Fact In a while, fair play, all of a sudden, night owl and star-crossed lovers are all phrases Shakespeare is thought to have introduced to the English language. The Bard was also known to love the prefix un–, having created or given meaning to over 300 words that begi

Quote "To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment." Jane Austen Joke German sausage jokes are just the wurst Fun Fact In 1981, a black lab named Bosco was elected honorary mayor of Sunol, California. Reading Fact As a struggling young writer, Harper Lee once got a year’s wages as a gift from her friends so that she could quit her job and devote more time to writing. She wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. The book became an immediate succ

Quote "Concentrate on what can be lived (which means the present)… then you can spend the time you have left in tranquility. And in kindness. And at peace with the spirit within you." Marcus Aurelius Joke I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it Fun Fact The first person to perform a successful C-section in South Africa was Dr. James Barry...a doctor who was actually a woman. Reading Fact There are more public libraries than McDonald’s restaurants in the Unit