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THE YOUNG MAN`S BOOK OF AMUSEMENT: This wonderful book was published in 1854 and within its 384 pages are Gems of Victorian Science. Its unpromising, mildly suggestive title belies a ... vast selection of interesting (& some highly ill-advised) experiments & pastimes from the 19th Century

Includes "Method of receiving the Electrical Shock from a Cat", "To Recover a Fly after being drowned several hours", and "The Electric Kite: Lethally ill-advised instructions for repeating Franklin`s experiments".

2010/51: A Book of Tongues -- Gemma Files

A Book of Tongues -- Gemma Files

... there he was again -- right smack back in the same place, slogging through black river water to his knees under the jaundice-yellow sky. Skulls to the left of him, flowers to the right, the very air itself an obsidian storm through which knives swirled by, drawing blood 'til it felt like all he had left for skin was a single walking wound.(p.14)

( non-spoilery review )

Domesticity

Domesticity
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Admire my new bookend and OMG BIRDIES Alert.