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deiki · 4109 days ago · link · · parent · post: What Are Your Bedside Books?

The Way Things Work by David Macaulay

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories by Mark Twain

A college level Biology textbook

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges

I just noticed that I have little nests of books around areas that I like to relax in. About every room in my home has some kind of bookshelf, but I think this stems to when I slept with books as a kid and imagine I was in the book with the characters.

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user-inactivated · 4109 days ago · link ·

The Silmarillion sits on a bookshelf above my bed and always will. Has to be within arm's reach even in the era of the internet.