#dukeofbookingham

[macrolit]

If you loved If We Were Villains, you might want to pre-order Graveyard Shift from M.L. Rio. Buy from: Bookshop.org AbeBooks.com Barnes & Noble Amazon.com

[englishmajorhumor]

[headbanging-nightrunner]

Decisions, decisions, where would you recommend I start @dukeofbookingham ?

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

dukeofbookingham replied to your post “quick question”

Idk if you have any interest in the publishing definitions, but in industry speak "backlist" is anything that isn't a new release. So basically, anything that wasn't published in like the last year. Frontilst is the new stuff. There are some exceptions--the lines get murky with things that stay on bestseller lists for a long time--but generally that's the bookseller lingo.

ooh that’s handy info to know :) 

[inactiveblogger]

The F in F. Scott Fitzgerald stands for Fortnite

[wildywindymoors]

Currently Reading: 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' - Edward Albee 'Essayism' - Brian Dillion 'How to Read Literature' - Terry Eagleton

[antigonick]

have you read "if we were villains"? if so, what did you think of the ending in particular?

I haven’t, yet! I just know that the ending is very heart-stopping, so, hush! As soon as I get my grabby hands on If We Were Villains, you’ll know. There’s no way I won’t quote it extensively. I’m planning to get to it after my dissertation deadline as a light, coming back to life read–around mid-August.

[theartofprose]

Real talk: you don’t go to college to take cute studyblr aesthetic pictures of your pristine Macbook next to an iced Starbucks latte and open copy of Mansfield Park. You go to college to learn stuff, and real academia–at least in my experience–is never that picturesque. It’s moldy old library books and sloppy handwriting and half-eaten granola bars and a screen so scratched and dusty you have to squint to find the desktop icons.

Duke of Bookingham [x]

One of my favourite grad student/author/bloggers preaching a little truth. If you stay in academia long enough, you’ll end up working in both “top flight” (or “that place up the street,” as we say in Montreal) and “meat-and-potatoes” institutions. And that “meat-and-potatoes” used-to-be-working-class-or-night-school-serving institution? It might even be the better fit for who you are as a student and who you might be as a researcher. Particularly once you get to grad school, the make-up and culture of your particular department (or degree program) matters a lot more than the ranking or endowment of the university.