Books

May 26, 2016

24-Hour Bookstore Allows Bibliophiles to Read All Day Long

Are you ever up at 2am, with nothing to do and nowhere to go? Well, if you live in Taiwan or Hong Kong, the Eslite bookstore chain might just be your saving grace. Being open 24 hours and with an amazing policy that lets its customers read as long as they like without being pressured to actually buy anything, this shop seems like a bookworm’s dream come true.

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December 7, 2015

Interview: Jonathan Franklin’s Extraordinary Survival Tale of a Castaway Lost at Sea for 438 Days

On November 17, 2012, Salvadoran fisherman Jos Salvador Alvarenga and a crewmate left the coast of Mexico for a weekend fishing trip. Eighty miles offshore, a brutal storm killed the engine and nearly capsized the boat, sweeping the two men and their small vessel far from land and civilization in the heart of the Pacific Ocean. That was the last anyone would see of them for 14 months.

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