For Reading Addicts

Jane Goodall (1934-2025) has died at 91. 🌿

She redefined science by showing chimps use tools, feel emotions & live complex lives and spent her life fighting for nature.

Her voice for the wild will never fade.

#JaneGoodall #TheLolgic #WildlifeConservation #legendsneverdie #UK #USA #Tanzania

Eating and reading
are two pleasures
that combine admirably.

~ CS Lewis

There's no perfume in the world quite like it. That magical blend of old paper, whispered secrets, and endless stories.

If you know, you know. What's your favorite library smell memory? 👃📖

#library #booklovers #bibliophole #bookstagram #memes #memesdaily #TheLolgic

Love a literary pun! 😆

Hand it over! #booksky

Sometimes, you just need to lie
on the couch and read.....

for a couple of years. #booksky

What's the difference between
a cat and a comma?

One has its claws
at the end
of its paws,
and one is a pause
at the end of a clause.

As I get older... #Booksky

Books fill my days... #Booksky

Medieval “drugstores” started in monasteries, moved to city shops, and were strictly regulated: doctors prescribed, apothecaries prepared (1231, 1353 rules).

Remedies mixed plants, spices, minerals, even oddities - laying groundwork for modern pharmacy.

#TheLolgic #Apothecary #USA #Europe #paris

💸 Love may be blind, but it still checks your bank balance first.
Jane Austen figured it out centuries ago. 📖✨

#janeausten #BookTok #memes #memesdaily #PrideAndPrejudice #TheLolgic

A library heals with stories, soothing restless thought.
Its shelves prescribe wisdom that can’t be bought.
Each book a remedy, gentle or bold,
A hospital for the mind, where spirits unfold.

It's not hoarding if it's books! #Booksky

I’m proposing a bookshop cafe. Not just a bookshop where you can sit for coffee, but a bookshop where you walk in and say things like “I’d like a latte and a book with dragons and no romance, please” and the barista would serve your coffee and pull out the perfect book for you!

Where do we go to make this a thing? #Booksky

I opened my book I turned to my page and tumbled right in was gone for an age I lift up my head and see to my shame another day passed I’ve done it again I’ve sat for a moment a quick read that’s all but hours have flown by whilst I was enthralled I’d had plans today done nothing at again there’s always tomorrow I’ll tidy up then. Shan W (forreadingaddicts)

#Booksky #Poetry #poems #reading

A 1,600-year-old mosaic at Huqoq, Israel, shows Jonah swallowed by three fish, plus scenes like the Tower of Babel with Greco - Roman motifs.

First Jonah mosaic found in a synagogue, rewriting views of Jewish art.

#Huqoq #TheLolgic #BiblicalArt #Israel #Jonah

“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.”~ Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

Me: “I’ll finish those books.”
Also me: opens a new one like an unbothered king. 👑📚😂

#TheLolgic #memes #memesdaily #bookstagram #booklovers

#WordNerd: The word malaria comes from Italian mala aria — “bad air.”
People once thought swampy air made you sick.
They weren’t totally wrong… the swamps just happened to be full of mosquitoes. #Booksky #Language

BOOKS: Better weapons against evil and ignorance than BOMBS

Books.. #Booksky

It’s funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-topped bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up for freedoms, sat down and read with toddlers, and reached out to illiterate adults. Librarians cannot be shushed forreadingaddicts

On libraries. #Booksky

True strength is the ability
to pick up a really big book,
say an 800-page hardback, lift
it up, carry it across the room
open the cover...

and read a single chapter. #Booksky

Every book you have read every story you’ve heard is just twenty six letters It’s true, every word. Yes those twenty six letters From A through to Z Make up every word That you’ve ever read Shan (forreadingaddicts)

The alphabet #Booksky

Every time someone says “enough books,” my inner beast awakens.

Because how can there ever be enough? Books are worlds, escapes, lifelines - and you don’t just stop collecting lifelines. 📚😼

#TheLolgic #Memes #MemesDaily #bookstagram #Booksky

Denmark scraps book tax The Danish government has announced plans to remove its 25% tax on books in a bid to tackle Denmark’s “reading crisis”.

The Danish government has announced plans to remove its 25% tax on books in a bid to tackle Denmark’s “reading crisis” 👇

#WordNerd In Victorian Slang a muffin walloper was an unmarried woman who enjoyed meeting up with friends for gossip and cake.

#WordNerd Muffinwalloper

🥓 #WordNerd Kummerspeck (German, literally “grief bacon”) The extra weight you put on from emotional overeating — sadness, stress, heartbreak… all measured in slices of cake and late-night snacks. It doesn’t mean actual bacon, but it perfectly captures that feeling when comfort food becomes a coping strategy. So next time you reach for the ice cream after a bad day, just call it Kummerspeck — it sounds way more sophisticated than “stress eating.”

#WordNerd; Kummerspeck #Language #Booksky

✨ #WordNerd ✨ Tmesis (pronounced T-MEE-sis) The splitting of a word or phrase by dropping another word right in the middle — often for emphasis. Examples: 👉 “I haven’t seen her any-blooming-where.” 👉 “Abso-f*cking-lutely, baby.” It shows up most in informal speech, but it’s been around since Ancient Greek and Latin poetry. A fancy name for something we all do when we’re feeling extra dramatic.

#WordNerd Tmesis #Booksky #Language

✨ #IDIOMFACTS ✨ Did you know that “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” originally meant doing something impossible? The phrase began life as an adynaton — a type of figure of speech for an absurd or impossible task (like “when pigs fly”). After all, you can’t literally lift yourself off the ground by tugging on your own boots! Over time, though, the idiom flipped its meaning. Instead of mocking impossibility, it became a metaphor for achieving success through one’s own effort — especially in American English. So next time you hear someone tell you to “pull yourself up by your bootstraps,” and you can’t it’s because you’re being asked to do something impossible! For Reading Addicts

#IdiomFacts Pulling ones self up by the bootstraps #Booksky #Language

A penny for your thoughts, she said My dear you’ll need much more The imaginings that fly around my head are myriad For I am a reader, a writer a dreamer and my mind is filled with tales more valuable than gold But here sit beside me, for I have a tale begging to be told Shan W (forreadingaddicts)

A penny #poems #poetry #booksky