His father was a chiropractor, and his schoolteacher mother was a booklover who also tutored children at her kitchen table.
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Perfect for the booklover who likes reading, history, or just wants to know how we got from clay tablets to libraries full of paperbacks.
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Laissez-faire tags are common on social media; if I post an aesthetic photo of a book I'm reading on Instagram, I have over 23 relevant tags to choose from, such as #book #books #readers #reader #reading #reads #goodreads #read #booksofig #readersofig #booksofinstagram #readersofinstagram #readstagram #bookstagram #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookshelfie #booknerd #bookworm #bookish #bookphotography #bookcommunity #booklover #booksbooksbooks #bookstagrammer #booktography #readers #readabook #readmorebooks #readingtime #alwaysreading #igreads #instareads #amreading.
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Dymocks has a loyalty program called 'Dymocks Booklover Rewards', originally launched in 2001, and relaunched in 2006.
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The Salesian Bulletin comes from a former experience that Don Bosco did in having his own publication. Although the researchers never found a copy, it traced a second issue by August 1875 named Bibliofilo Cattolico (The Catholic Booklover) that was printed in the Oratory Press of Don Bosco. The Catholic Booklover was dedicated to late vocations. The first editions were published in Italian, but it will be soon not just translated by edited in several languages between the 19th and 20th century.
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An obituary of Charlotte Milligan Fox is in The Irish Booklover (1916). The Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society (1917) has a poem in remembrance of Charlotte Milligan Fox. The same issue has a memoir of Fox by Alice Milligan and an appreciation of Fox by Alfred Perceval Graves.
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The novella Sonechka tells the life story of a Russian booklover. Sonechka spends her youth immersed in the world of Russian literature, living her life vicariously through the characters in books. One day, when Sonechka is working at the local library, a man named Robert Viktorovich inquires about an ensemble of French books. The 50-year-old man, who is a member of the intelligentsia, returns to the library 3 days later and abruptly proposes to Sonechka.
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This year, on the occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of the Nobel Laureate immortal poet Rabindranath Tagore to whose memory the Fair had been dedicated, there was no entry fee for the visitors. Each and every booklover visiting the fair was gifted a pocket calendar with a photograph of Rabindranath Tagore as a memento. Over 1.6 million book lovers gathered in this 12 day book festival, and books worth Rs 16 crore were sold. Noted Pulitzer Award-winning writer Richard Ford of USA inaugurated the fair.
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And those books were greedily > unwrapped, opened, and read, when sometimes there was nothing to eat at > home. This marvelous Leningrad booklover, known at that time as a Hispanist > who knew many languages, was David Isaakovich Vygodsky, a name that was > widely known across the ocean. Even today books arrive at his Leningrad > address from South America with touching inscriptions...Marietta Shaginyan, > "Pages from the Past," Politichesky dnevnik #7 (April 1965), in Antologiya > Samizdata (in Russian). He was a friend of both Osip Mandelstam and Benedikt Livshits; the latter dedicated a sonnet to him.
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Summing up his life, the "old chronicle" presented him as a booklover and philosopher, whose like in the world had never before been seen, and would never be seen again. Vasilkovich was renowned for his favorable treatment of the region's Jewish population, which had erewhile been severely maligned and ill-treated. According to an annalist who describes the funeral of the grand duke Vladimir Vasilkovich in the city of Vladimir (Volhynia), "the Jews wept at his funeral as at the fall of Jerusalem, or when being led into the Babylonian captivity."Isidore Singer & Cyrus Adler, eds.
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The creative component of Davis' PhD was Lost & Found. Davis’ debut novel, Lost & Found (Hachette Australia, 2014), tells the story of three characters living on the South West coast of Western Australia. Davis was inspired to write the story after the sudden death of her mother in 2007. Described as 'whimsically humorous' and 'a potent mix of childlike wonder and world-weary experience',"Book Review - Lost & Found by Brooke Davis", Booklover Book Reviews Davis’ book sparked a bidding war at the 2014 London Book Fair, with rights being sold into 25 countries and translated into 20 languages.
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