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Meeting the mysterious @BooksOnTheTub.

12 October, 201712 October, 2017 ~ poorbjorn

05.45 AM – Meeting the mysterious man behind Books on the Tub.

He got a hold of my “to-read”-list and had a few books in his collection that where in the list. So this morning, at un ungodly hour, I meet him in person for the first time and got a stack of interesting books.

“King of the world” – David Remnick
“The Four Alignments” – Don Miguel Ruiz
“Siddhartha” -Herman Hesse

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