Mrs Ramsay

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Darkling I listen; and, for many a time          I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call’d him soft names in many a mused rhyme (x)

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Ye Olde Books: The Warden by Anthony Trollope

The oldest book I own (not counting my family library) is this one, printed in 1902, which I in bought in Wales in 2014.

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Recommended books (from A to Z)

A: The Awakening, Kate Chopin B: The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath C: Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky D: Don Juan, Lord Byron E: The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje F: Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury G: The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy H: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers I: Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison J: The Joy of Reading, Charles Van Doren K: King Lear, William Shakespeare L: Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill M: The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov N: Native Son, Richard Wright O: Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham P: The Persian Wars, Herodotus Q: The Quiet American, Graham Greene R: The Razor’s Edge, W. Somerset Maugham S: The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes T: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith U: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera V: The Vegetable, F. Scott Fitzgerald W: Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte X: Autobiography of Malcolm X Y: The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman Z: Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Wartime Sarajevo, Zlata Filipovic

Click titles to read descriptions from Amazon

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Currently reading: King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett

Bought second-hand through Abe books.

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Ramón Casas - Young Decadent - 1899

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Books I love: What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi

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Some covers from this weekend’s book haul. Vintage Penguin Classics covers.

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poseidon, zeus and hades  💦 ⚡ 💀  illustration done for Hades’ Holiday patreon on August!

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Tell me, are you not tired of “I am this” and “I am that” and “I am between this and that”? I live so much within myself…

Kahlil Gibran, in a letter to Mary Haskell, from Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and her private journal (via luthienne)

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Read the First Six Pages of the New Issue of the Award-Winning Comic Pope Hats

By Dan Kois

Returning to the friendship of neurotic law clerk Frances and actress-on-the-rise Vickie, Rilly creates a compelling and recognizable universe of superhuman law-firm partners, toxic L.A. culture, and imposter syndrome. The issue is shot through with sadness, with deep affection, and with legal minutiae. There’s no other comic book being published today like it, and I can’t recommend it enough. But don’t take my word for it—this is certainly the first comic book I’ve ever seen with a thank-you note from George Saunders on its letters page.

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On the Power and Prison of Gender: 11 Stories and 1 Poem

Read work by Morgan Parker, Sachin Kundalkar, Maggie Shipstead, Juan Villoro, and more that considers the dynamics of identity

All of these sound amazing.

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They never really spoke to you. They spoke toward you. They spoke at you. They spoke near you, on you.

Lorrie Moore, “Community Life” Birds of America

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Europe is Lost, Kate Tempest

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It was really the world that was one’s brutal mother, the one that nursed and neglected you, and your own mother was only your sibling in that world.

Lorrie Moore, “Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People” Birds of America

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Bohemians (a corner in my atelier) by Christian Krohg

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Brontë Essentials: Six Modern Books Inspired by 'Jane Eyre'

By Catherine Lowell

Check out these six books -- wildly different in tone and style -- that all share the same inspiration: Charlotte Brontë.

I’ve been meaning to read The Eyre Affair for years...

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Staring out through the windshield, off into the horizon, Abby began to think that all the beauty and ugliness and turbulence one found scattered through nature, one could also find in people themselves, all collected there, all together in a single place.

Lorrie Moore, “Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People” Birds of America