books & nature

JOMP Challenge | May 11 | Nature

JOMPBPC 3/27/25 flowers

I found this vintage book from 1958 while thrift shopping and had to have it

April Aubade

exy, trauma, repeat.

March 25th, 2025

After a few days of sunshine it got a bit more cloudy but there are finally some first shy leaves here and there. I'm busy grading papers (worst part of my job) and thinking about starting to study a new subject. Right now I'm teaching English and Spanish but I'm not working full time. I fear I'll have to at some point in the future and this combination means grading tons of papers (which I hate). So I am contemplating the idea of adding a third subject, probably Ethics. Would means studying (again!) but could also make my work life easier in the future.

On my way to Berlin for the Louis Tomlinson concert ✨

I love buying new books. Look at this! Isn’t it pretty? I’m not gonna read it for 2 years but it will look fabulous on my bookshelf

I’m sorry for all the unread books on my shelves. I love you guys. Your day will come, I promise 📚

I just wanna take a cute girl to a bookstore and buy her 10 books for her to read while cuddling on the couch with me 😭

You know thats almost $300-$400 at a lot of bookstores right

Did I stutter? They can all be hardcovers too

This is literally the hottest thing I've seen on this app.

You might be frustrated by the library never having a complete manga collection on its shelves at any given time, but the 12 year old checking out 14 volumes of One Piece at once is vital to the library ecosystem. He's like the sea otter keeping the kelp forest from being devastated by an excess of sea urchins.

To those curious some other keystone library species include:

—the retirees who’ve read more murder mysteries than I’ve had hot meals

—the paperback romance girlies (gender neutral) who check out every single bodice ripper the second it hits the shelves

—the dads very slowly making their way through a ‘1001 movies to see before you die’ list

—the one-man criterion collection who checks out like, three movies per day and brings them back the next. (TV series are only a minor roadblock.)

—kids who like Minecraft

---The new parents checking out 47 picture books for their 7 month old baby who clearly has nothing going on in their head except the Wii Sports Resort theme song

literally anything handmade is so dope. idc what it is it could be anything. a quilt, a painting, a basket, a sweater, a wooden table, a shed, a meal. how magical

real bitches cry over books. (its me. i’m bitches.)

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