Sometimes referred to as International Chocolate Day and celebrated since 2009. Why did we wait so long?!? I can't imagine a better holiday to celebrate. Bake a cookie for someone you love today! Do you love chocolate? Any favourite books on chocolate?

Trinity College Old Library, Dublin, Ireland Beautiful dark wood arches contain over 7 million volumes And one more for good measure: Beitou Public Library, Taiwan Just because it looks so incredibly beautiful

Travel is a force for good in this world as my old company executives’ used to say and I firmly believe Theroux I could have picked almost any of Theroux’s travel books but this one speaks to me for the word Reading Bryson is like having a beer with a good friend. 5: The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin Bruce Chatwin Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain – RIP

Timoth Zahn's Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy - Greater Good debuts at number 10.

But today is a good day! Lots of love to all the dad's out there!

CARE CARE is raising money for its Ukraine Crisis Fund, which will provide immediate aid including food

, crazy family dynamics and cannibalistic river otters. 5: Five Little Indians: A Novel by Michelle Good

An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear distills complex topics into

A good reminder, not only of our responsibilities to each other and the places we visit when travelling

but enough editorializing): 1: Atomic Habits by James Clear Subtitled - An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good

1: Atomic Habits by James Clear Subtitled - An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear distills complex topics into

At the start of the final section of James Baldwin's first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, is an epigraph him from his bitter childhood into whatever he makes of his life: ''Then I buckled up my shoes,/And I started Have we finally buckled up our shoes and started?

And since I've started to add a few board games on the site I thought I'd link to Amazon's Summer Toy

I started this little online bookstore partly to remove clutter and partly to share wonderful ideas and

So as a sort of dark humour, funny only to myself type thing, I started reading Albert Camus' The Plague