"A list of 35 ScrollStack posts published before October 6th, 2020, categorised and arranged in order - for your reading pleasure.

Thank you for reading. Keep chasing the blues away, one book at a time :)" ~ Nitin

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Bibliotherapy (noun) - ‘The use of books to aid people in solving the issues that they may be facing at a particular time.’ First coined during the trying times of World War I.

The debut post - the tale of my journey as a reader, told through nine montages, nine quotes...

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One Billion Seconds... plus a few million more...

Bibliotherapy (noun) - ‘The use of books to aid people in solving the issues that they may be facing at a particular time.’ First coined during the trying times of World War I.

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"On March 22nd, 2020, life changed. For better or for worse, no one knows, but it changed for good."

A trilogy of rather long posts revisiting a rather long summer in reverse chronological order...

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Scroll To The Bottom (1/3) - A Guided Walk-through 111 Days of Bibliotherapy

On March 22nd, 2020, life changed. For better or for worse, no one knows, but it changed for good.

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Scroll To The Bottom (2/3) - A Guided Walk-through 111 Days of Bibliotherapy

Part two of a trilogy of posts walking through 111 days of Bibliotherapy in reverse chronological order.

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Scroll To The Bottom (3/3) - A Guided Walk-through 111 Days of Bibliotherapy

The third and final part of a guided scroll to the bottom of the Instagram feed, a walk through 111 days of Bibliotherapy in reverse chronological order.

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“42 - the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything.” ~ 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' by Douglas Adams

My post-'gap year' take on Life, the Universe and Everything...

#5

The Bibliophile's Guide to 42

Three years ago, during the final week of my notice period, if someone had come up to me and said...

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"Welcome to gapyear.scrollstack.com!

This corner of the web will be hosting a host of tales from a thirty-six-month-long 'gap year' for your reading (and my writing) pleasure."

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Long Strange Trip

Sabbatical (noun) - also known as gap year; a prolonged hiatus in the career of an individual taken in order to fulfill some dream, e.g. writing a book or travelling extensively.

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Bibliophile (noun) - ‘An 'ape-descended life form' who prefers books to other 'ape-descended life forms'. One who doesn't like people less, but loves reading more.’

Guide (noun) - ‘Everything about something of interest - in one place, updated at regular intervals and arranged in reading order. Usually in the form of a handbook designed to be useful for visitors, first-timers and veterans alike, both 'ape-descended' as well as other-worldly.’

Project Bibliotherapy 101...

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The Bibliophile's Guide to

Bibliophile (noun) - ‘An 'ape-descended life form' who prefers books to other 'ape-descended life forms'. One who doesn't like people less, but loves reading more.’

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Ickigai Identification 101...

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The Bibliophile's Guide to Ikigai

Ikigai (noun) \[icky-guy] - {Japanese: 'Iki' (to live) and 'gai' (reason)}; ‘reason for living’; ‘raison d'etre’; ‘motivation to jump out of bed each morning’

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Odes to some of my favorites...

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The Bibliophile's Guide to H2G2

Greetings, fellow inhabitants of the Universe.

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The Bibliophile's Guide to Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975): The original bibliotherapist - chasing the blues away since forever.

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The Bibliophile's Guide to Bukowski

“Charles Bukowski was a shameless drinker, womanizer, and all-around f*ck up. He would get drunk on stage at his poetry readings and verbally abuse his audience. He gambled a lot of his money away and had an unfortunate habit of exposing himself in public.

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#12

Charles Bukowski on Acing Job Interviews

Factotum (noun) - ‘A man who never had a job he liked; and never kept a job he had.’

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The Bibliophile's Guide to the Oatmeal

If you haven't heard of The Oatmeal despite being online all these years, I'm surprised... and also slightly jealous of you.

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The Bibliophile's Guide to the Hundred Year Old Man

“Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be.” ~ Allan Karlsson

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The Bibliophile's Guide to Love

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” ~ Charles Bukowski

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The Bibliophile's Guide to Dunno

Once upon a time, there existed a superpower - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the largest country in the world. Spread across an area of 22 million square kilometers, it covered one-sixth of the Earth's land surface - equivalent to seven times the size of India.

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Rare Bedtime Stories resurrected from the Soviet Era for kids of all ages...

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The Bibliophile's Bedtime Stories: Dunno's Adventures #1 - The Mites of Flower Town

Once upon a time, in a town in fairyland, lived some people called the Mites. They were called the Mites because they were very tiny. The biggest of them was no bigger than a pine cone.

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The Bibliophile's Bedtime Stories: Dunno's Adventures #2 - Dunno Takes Music Lessons

Dunno never could do anything right. He never got beyond reading in syllables, and he could only write printed letters. Some people said his head was empty, but that was not true, because he could not have thought at all if it had been empty. To be sure, he did not think much, but he put his boots on his feet and not on his head, and it takes some thinking to do even that.

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The Bibliophile's Bedtime Stories: Dunno's Adventures #3 - How Dunno Became an Artist

Вlobs was a very good artist. He always wore a long shirt called a smock. He looked very splendid standing in front of his easel, palette in hand, in his smock, and with his long hair thrown back. Anyone could see he was a real artist.

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The Bibliophile's Bedtime Stories: Dunno's Adventures #4 - How Dunno Became a Poet

When nothing came of Dunno's efforts to become an artist, he decided to become a poet. He knew a poet who lived in Dandelion Street. The real name of this poet was Turnips, but since all poets like to have beautiful names, he chose another for himself.

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The Bibliophile's Bedtime Stories: Dunno's Adventures #5 - How Dunno Took a Ride in a Soda-Water Car

Bendum and his helper Twistum were very good tinkers. They looked exactly alike, except that Bendum was the least bit taller and Twistum was the least bit shorter. Both of them wore leather jackets, and in their pockets they always carried files, wrenches, screwdrivers, and other tools. If the pockets hadn't been made of leather they would have been torn off long ago. Their caps were also made of leather and they had goggles on them. Bendum and Twistum pulled down the goggles when they were working to keep the dust and dirt out of their eyes.

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The Bibliophile's Bedtime Stories: Dunno's Adventures #6 - How Doono Made a Balloon

Doono, who was a great reader, had read a lot of travel books. Often of an evening he would tell his friends about what he had read. The Mites loved to listen to his stories. They liked to hear about countries they had never seen, but they liked even better to hear stories about famous travellers, for the most extraordinary things always happen to travellers.

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The first Bibliotherapy Quiz Contest...

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Bibliotherapy Quiz Contest: Tazo Tuesday #1

Six tazos, six questions. Difficulty setting - Moderately Easy.

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Screen favourites...

#24

Bibliotherapy Theatre: Fantasia

"In 1940, Walt Disney released Fantasia, his most ambitious feature to date and arguably the riskiest project the studio has released to this day.

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Retro Gaming...

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Bibliotherapy Arcade: 3D Pinball Space Cadet

“Forget Solitaire and Minesweeper. The best game ever included with Windows was a virtual pinball table. With blinking lights and arcade sounds, 3D Pinball for Windows - Space Cadet seemed like magic back in 1995, and is surprisingly playable even today.” ~ Justin Pot, How to Geek

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Bibliotherapy Arcade: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Explore Life, the Universe and Everything via a completely-free-to-play online version of the original text-based adventure designed with inputs from Douglas Noel Adams himself, courtesy the BBC.

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A few of my aural discoveries...

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Bibliotherapy Jukebox: India Psychedelic

For your listening pleasure... a collection of aural gems discovered courtesy Sidharth Bhatia's fascinating effort at shining some light on the rock music scene in India of the 1960s and '70s, full of anecdotes and memories from the pre-pre-Internet era, amassed through tons of interviews and diligent research.

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Bibliotherapy Jukebox: The Beatles' Black Album

"The best of John, Paul, George, and Ringo's solo work, post-BEATLES. Basically I've put the band back together for you [in the Black Album].

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Bibliotherapy Jukebox: Metallica Mondays

Between March 24th and and August 25th of this Unforgiven Year, every Monday, twenty-three times, Metallica treated us to a full-length concert from their vast archives, made available for everyone in the world to stream on Youtube.

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Past issues of the weekly magazine. To be continued shortly as part of 'Read More with Project Bibliotherapy'...

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Bibliotherapy Zine #1

Zine (noun) \[zeen] - ‘magazine.’

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#31 Bibliotherapy Zine #2

#32 Bibliotherapy Zine #3

Brilliant reads discovered on ScrollStack in September...

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The Bibliophile's ScrollStack Goodreads List - September 2020

As one of the earliest inhabitants of ScrollStack, I've had the pleasure of discovering a plethora of diverse sources to populate my To-Read list since July.

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A post detailing the latest Bibliotherapy experiment to nudge the world to read more...

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Read More with

After two hundred days of chasing the blues away, one book at a time...first on Instagram, then briefly on LinkedIn, and now on ScrollStack...

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The only under-35 list to which I can legally make it... going forward... :P

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The Bibliophile's 35 Under 35

"A list of 35 ScrollStack posts published before October 6th, 2020, categorised and arranged in order for your reading pleasure.

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