Author Archives: bookboy

The Guardian: Is reading on the loo bad for you? Microbes don’t fare too well on absorbent surfaces, and might survive only minutes on newspaper. But plastic book covers and those shiny, smooth surfaces of Kindles, iPhones and iPads are more accommodating, and it’s likely bugs can live on those for hours. Working in a library, handling all those recently returned books, you try not to think about this sort of thing too often. Finally, Shaoul concluded that reading on … Continue reading →

I don’t know how to measure love. There’s no way to quantify how I feel about you. There is no ruler to measure your beauty, no scales to weigh how my life has changed. An atomic clock can’t describe the times we’ve shared, some pencil marks on the wall will never show how we’ve grown together. Our relationship can’t be defined by numbers. But there are a few that might help: 2 homelands. 8 homes. 5 universities. 1 great dane. … Continue reading →