No, people that live in poverty do none of those things you have mentioned regardless of the year or how well their country as a whole prospered.

Books by Stephen King always get me up in the morning. All of his books are very scary to me and i cannot read at night. The only way for me to read his books is during the day, so i have to wake up so i can read more!

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Totally agree - I recommend this book to literally everyone. I think it's so important to think about before uncomfortable decisions actually have to be made. I even brought it up with my doctor during my physical and I'm only turning 30 this year - just to make myself get comfortable talking to a medical professional about this stuff.

At this point in my life, she said the most important thing is having conversations about these topics with people who could end up making decisions for you when you can't for whatever medical reason.

There was this one guy I was going on a date with so did a quick google search ( safety and all that jazz). I found the book from his goodreads list lol

A guy next to me on an airplane finished the book he was reading - Consider Phlebas. He didn't say a word to me, just put on some headphones. I didn't know what to do other than to start reading.

Now I've read a bunch of Iain Banks books. Someday I hope to do the same thing that guy did - finish a book and just hand it to some stranger.

Folio Society editions are beautiful (and well made)!

This was the grim reality for most of the world's population until not too long ago. We like to romanticize these bygone days as being "simpler times" the "good old days", but the truth was that there was massive suffering on a daily basis. People, especially children, were disposable. Regulatory bodies for safety and well being did not exsist as we know them today. Add that with the lack of modern medicine and the general lack of knowledge on harmful substances and you end up with a world that would be downright terrifying to anyone from a developed nation today.

I love history and consider myself to be a fairly rational person, but I still find myself fantasizing about being a long hunter like Daniel Boone...until I think about all the times I would have died simply because I couldn't run to cvs and pick up some amoxicillin.

I personally love the book wild. Cheryl Stayed really is a tremendous writer. She somehow is able to inspire an individual to put themselves imaginarily into the situations she endeavoured while hiking the PCT. She simultaneously encourages the reader to consider many other possible avenues. It’s a powerful journey that asks one to introspect and eschew some pre conceived concepts. I highly recommend

I recently finished A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick

Towards the end of the book, a main character named Donna is described as having a lucky rabbit's foot attached to her purse. The rabbit's foot is only mentioned in one place in the novel.

I went on a hike directly after reading the passage mentioning the rabbit's foot. And on the middle of the trail I found, for the first time in my life, a severed rabbit's foot. A rabbit must have had a struggle with a fox or bird of prey in that exact spot.

Not exactly what you're talking about, OP, but a very notable synchronicity that I wanted to mention

Watership Down captured my imagination and wouldn't let me go. Travels with Charley made me feel better about Steinbeck and about humankind generally. The Traveling Cat Chronicles was simple, moving and melancholy.

When I was a kid I was furniture shopping with my dad, and I noticed one of the display books that they use to decorate bookshelves and such was actually a book that I had been wanting to read. While my dad walked around the store, I sat on a couch and read a bit of the book. When it was time to leave, I noticed the book actually had a price sticker on there, probably left over from when these stores buy books in bulk. So we took it up to the register and convinced the cashier to let us buy it by ringing up an item that was a similar price. When I got home, I realized that the book had actually been signed by the author too!

I was having dinner with a girlfriend, Anne, in the mid-1980s, and we started talking about the mutual friends we had. Anne asked if I'd ever heard of these gruesome murders back in Utah about 10 years ago, I said no and she told me that a couple we both knew were related to one of the families who lost loved ones in the crime and a book was written about the murders. This was long before the Internet and I can't recall how in the world I found a copy of the book when I didn't know the title, but I did--Victim by Gary Kinder, which has become one of my favorite true-crime books. There was an updated version after the execution of the killers. If my friend had never mentioned the crime or book to me, I never would have known.

Elsewhere- Gabrielle Zevin, I know it’s a youth book. It was on my shelf forever never read my friend recommended it right after my dad passed but I didn’t recently pick it up until about 5 years later… I’m glad it found me when it did. It would have been too much for me to read right after he died, it gave me comfort at this point in my grief. I love that book.

Browsing ordinals.com, I see what appears to be the first book hosted on Bitcoin. At the "content" link is Mindfulness in Plain English:

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Not sure this is the best place. Apologies if it's not. I'm trying to find higher quality book shelves that can easily be taken apart. About 15 years ago I bought a solid book shelf made of oak and it does not come apart. I'm ready to get rid of it and get something easier to move when I move again next year. Any recommendations?

My wife and I were staying at a hotel that had a bookshelf in the lobby where you could borrow a book. I saw a book called "Liar's Poker" by Michael Lewis. This was at least 25 years ago so I had not read any of his books yet. I liked it so much that having read half of it while we were there, I asked the hotel clerk if I could take the book when we left so I could finish it, and they graciously said yes. I have since read almost all of his books.

'The Thing Around Your Neck' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is so strongly character-focused and focuses on normal people in such a delicately-crafted and genuine way. Always a treat to read!

I agree, this book should be read by all. Important info and so beautifully written.

Thank you so much for the link, this is very interesting - I love how Mrs Davis called him out!

I found a book in a hotel lobby. It was autographed by the author. Wilbur Smith. Good read to.

I barely got out of bed for 2 weeks to read A Song of Ice and Fire.

I was so consumed by Mistborn that I got in trouble at work 😂

I was out fishing on the Kenai River. A storm blew in, forcing me to race back to the cabin. I was soaked through, and the place was cold and empty. Decided to go drinking, so I drove out to Sterling, the closest town about two hours away. The humidity from my clothes steamed up the windows, so I could barely see when I got to town. Pulled into a big gravel parking lot to wipe the windscreen and noticed a thrift shop nearby. I went in to look for junk, and found a box full of paperbacks for $5. I bought it, and took it back to the cabin. Among the books were something like a dozen Louis Lamour novels. I actually enjoyed them.

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My house flooded in a landmark storm. After being forced to evacuate we came back to our house a few days later and sitting outside our front door was a book titled “Anything Can Happen” it’s a vintage 1940’s copy. I’ve never even heard of this book. So I dried it out, and framed it and it’s the first piece of artwork you see when you walk into my house now.