The word "shrine" comes from the Latin word "scrinium", meaning "chest for books".
The word "bibliosmia" means "the enjoyment of the smell of old books".
Wow, I'm a bibliosmia addict
Over £2.2 billion is spent on books every year in the UK.
Alice in wonderland, Winnie the Pooh and charlottes web were originally banned in several countries for having talking animals.
That's so cool! My phone automatically capitalised Winnie the Pooh!!! It knows it's master.
150,000 new books are published every year in Britain.
Still not enough......
J.R.R. Tolkien (who, btw, which fyi means by the way, [wild child reference] was my cousin's grandpa) typed the whole of The Lord of the rings with two fingers.
I type with two fingers....
William Shakespeare was the first person to record the words "bump, gloomy, puking, gossip, champion, addiction, accused, amazement, bedroom, blanket and advertising."
One in five adults around the world cannot read or write.
We need to change this...
The original manuscript for of mice and men was eaten by john steinbeck's puppy.
This is so awesome!
in japan, the word "tsundoku" means "buying a load of old books and not getting round to reading them"
Wow. That is so totally utterly and completely me!!!!
YOU ARE READING
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Acakhiya. this is a book of stuff. fandom jokes, random poems, lyrics, observations, funny things I hear... I don't really have a plan so we'll see how it goes.. this is my first book on wattpad so I hope it goes okay. (Also, I just want to warn you tha...
