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Actually had a productive day at the library going through my materials and writing notes on Mary Shelley

[galina]

Hi! I’ve gathered that you love Margaret Atwood and I want to reading some of her work as I very much admire her. She has written so many books and I don’t know what to start with, so I was wondering if you had any suggestions x

Hi, I’m so pleased that you would think to ask me for my recommendation. I think Atwood’s most famous work and the best one to start with is The Handmaid’s Tale. It is a stand-alone novel and was recently adapted into a popular television series which makes it very accessible. 

I would also recommend her poetry collection, Eating Fire, and Oryx and Crake, one of my favourite novels of hers. It is part of a trilogy but also works on its own. She also has a series of lectures published, On Writers and Writing, that might be worth a read if you have the time. :–)

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I am way behind on a lot of my uni work, and I have two ten page essay deadlines coming up in a few weeks, so I really need to get back to studying

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Went to an art museum today after presenting my thesis

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Economics lecture, my favourite autumnal academia shorts, the prettiest building on my way to class and some pumpkin spice

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Autumnal readings

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Writing an essay on a still undecided topic centring around 19th century Ottoman Empire is a fun challenge because I know next to nothing about that area of history and I need to do a lot more reading than I would if I was reading about European history, because I have been learning about that my whole life whereas this is a completely new territory. 

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Classics