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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. –Edwin Land

Build the Human Body.

Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are. –Mason Cooley

Reading a Czech graphic novel called Saint Barbara byMarek Šindelka,Vojtěch Mašek andMarek Pokorný. By the way, the building in the back is St. Barbara’s Church.

Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, not to impress. Don’t strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt. –Unknown

Reading a popular Czech book called SaturninbyZdeněk Jirotka.

Hogarth Shakespeare.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. –Walt Whitman

Reading a Czech book called Paci paci pacičkybyVáclav Bauman. This picture was taken during our trip to South Bohemia. 

Do you also read children’s books?

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

ReadingPerfect RemainsbyHelen Fields.

Kazuo Ishiguro.

You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. –Martin Luther King

Reading a Czech book called The Best for Everyone byPetra Soukupová.

The photo was taken in front of Schönbrunn Palace Vienna.

World Book Day. In 1995 UNESCO decided that this yearly event would be celebrated on 23 April, as the date is the anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, as well as that of the birth or death of several other prominent authors.

You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.–John Mason 

A photo from our Instameet. You can follow me also on Instagram – @bookscalling.

My current TBR list — reading copy, YA, LGBT, classics, Swedish and Danish authors and some linguistics. #GiveItToMeNow What do you plan to read?

A writer is a world trapped in a person.–Victor Hugo

Reading a book called The BreakdownbyB. A. Paris. This was the first psychological thriller I’ve ever read and it was fantastic!

Never-ending book tunnel. Sometimes I want to jump in it.

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone.–Cassandra Clare

Reading a new Jo Nesbø’s book called Macbeth. 

Jo Nesbø’sMacbeth. Have you read it already?

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning. –Virginia Woolf

Reading her book called Mrs. Dalloway.

Friday survey: How many books do you have? And do you still have a space for them?

Reading a French book called The End of Eddy byÉdouard Louis.