The Whitby Bookshop 📚

Painfully true💀😭🤣

“Think not of the books you’ve bought as a ‘to be read’ pile. Instead, think of your bookcase as a wine cellar. You collect books to be read at the right time, the right place, and the right mood.” -Luc van Donkersgoed

I’m currently finishing American Psycho (published in 1991) and guess who gets mentioned every five pages or so as Patrick Bateman’s idol in the world of outrageous nihilism among late-1980s NYC yuppies.

Epitaph for a Roman dog

Redheads require about 20% more anesthesia than people with other hair colors. Scientists are unsure why anesthesia, both general and local, is less effective for redheads, but it may be linked to the MC1R gene mutation that causes hair to be red.

Exactly 175 years ago Leo Tolstoy wrote the greatest diary entry of all time

I must tell you - we gain 77 minutes of daylight in the next 28 days.

Oh I am so for this 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Pharaohs were buried with their arms across their chest because of the ancient belief that there would be countless water slides in the after life.

you let them shenan once, they’ll shenanigan

“The palest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory”—Chinese proverb.

Save this. On 28th, February humanity will witness a rare planetary parade of six planets in the night sky

NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter...

Happy birthday to my favourite of all the haters, Charles Darwin

If the cosmos took billions of years to make you, if the iron in your blood was forged by stars, if your hair is stardust, if your heart is starlight, why, why would you waste your life thinking you were here to be anything other the greatest flame in the frozen darkness: love.

Sometimes male anger at ‘women getting special treatment’ reminds me of a gorilla experiment. One gorilla gets a banana every hour. The females next to him get one every four hours. Then someone decides to be ‘fairer’ and gives the females a banana every two hours instead. The