1. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
4. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
5. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
6. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
7. The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
8. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
9. Anne of Green Gables (and the sequels) by LM Montgomery
10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
by Elise Valmorbida, author of The Book of Happy Endings
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A woman holds her malnourished child at a therapeutic feeding center at al-Sabyeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, May 28, 2012. Yemen is facing a food crisis of “catastrophic proportions”, with almost half the population going hungry and a third of children in some areas severely malnourished, aid agencies have warned.
[Credit : Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4sl1eNCbR1r44q44o1_1280.jpg)
A woman holds her malnourished child at a therapeutic feeding center at al-Sabyeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, May 28, 2012. Yemen is facing a food crisis of “catastrophic proportions”, with almost half the population going hungry and a third of children in some areas severely malnourished, aid agencies have warned.
[Credit : Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters]
-Friedrich Nietzsche (via booksandnerds)
Submitted by: crooked-cucumbers
50 Years of Government Spending, in 1 Graph
(via 50 Years of Government Spending, In 1 Graph : Planet Money : NPR)
Happy National Buttermilk Biscuit Day (May 14).
Capilano Suspension Bridge (by michellerlee)
