Today’s theme: Bookstores

Bookshops are time machines, spaceships, story makers, secret keepers, dragon-tamers, dream catchers, fact finders and safe places.

A bookshop is a place for discovering things you never knew existed. They are built by people - they are unpredictable. Everyone should be different. They are personal. It should be the curated mindspace of the person who owns it. Certainly the independent ones.

>>>The Conversationalist with

British Ambassador

Charles Hay

“The Wow Book Festival not only features various collaborations of artists, but also a platform for discussions on various issues. How can reading improve our ability to engage with others, do you think?”

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Journalist

Andrew Salmon

“People are overwhelmed with large amount of information these days and have less time to read or even go buy books. Having one of the busiest professions, what do you think still makes you go to bookshops?”

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>>>A Few Minutes with Amos

For several days in a row I was able to get free meals.

Like I said before, if someone offers you free food, and you don’t accept it, you are throwing money in the garbage

So the first was a buffet where I ate 8 plates of food and almost had to be hospitalized.

My face broke out into hives because of some allergy. But since I ate ALL the food, there is no way to tell what triggered it.

The second was American BBQ which is crazy expensive.

My cousin was buying so I got a 3 person platter instead of 2.

He gets there and says he’s not that hungry.

So Even though I’m dying, I just soldiered on and kept eating…

>>>Next week: zero-waste living