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

Bill Bryson Bill Bryson Bibliography ​ ​ Non-fiction: ​ The Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words ( of the English Language in the United States (1994) Notes from a Small Island (1996) A Walk in the Woods

America: Poems of These States (1973) Iron Horse (1973) Sad Dust Glories : poems during work summer in woods

Socialists, medical professionals and many Montréalers (where he spent a good part of his life as chief heavy-handed detail on his death, to the extent that we know the exact time of his passing and the exact words We are told that Bethune’s decision to start his first medical practice in Detroit is partly because In the paragraphs preceding this statement we are told he is living the good life and quite enjoying get to go to medical school in England and Italy and squander the money sent by parents on drinks and food