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[readtheuniverse]

[incognit0slut]

Lou I need you to read ‘Ranger’ by Dr Rebecca Sharp. The love interest is based off of Spencer and I need someone to obsess with.

I just got it on my kindle!! I’ll talk about if after I finish reading it ASAP

[francesduncan]

Captain Wentworth caused Louisa's accident...?

Controversial opinion but stay with me.

"..yours is the character of decision and firmness... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on... Let those who would be happy be firm... My first wish for all whom I am interested in, is that they should be firm. If Louisa Musgrove would be beautiful and happy in her November of life, she will cherish all her present powers of mind.”

- Jane Austen, Persuasion C10

Captain Wentworth is still angry with Anne, so much so that he teaches Louisa to be "obstinate," with disastrous results. He thinks Anne was too persuadable in ending their engagement but when he describes his ideal woman (“a strong mind, with sweetness of manner”) she is "not out of his thoughts" yet he is unaware that he is describing her.

The reader can trace a direct line from the conversation between Captain Wentworth and Louise in the Hedgerow, his jumping her down stiles to his jumping her down the stairs at Lyme. The visit itself comes about because Louisa "armed with the idea of merit in maintaining her own way" wears down her parents. She's a young woman, excited at the dashing Captain's attention, his unthinking words and actions encouraged her to her accident.

If you'd like to discuss Austen with me you can book a Read With Me session

Video and audio from 1995 Persuasion

Music from Look What You Made Me Do by Taylor Swift

[sistahscifi]

Today's Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday is part of the Delicious Monsters' Book launch tour. Other stops include @BarnesaneNoble, @BraveandKindBooks, @PowellsBooks, and @SkylightBooks.  Delicious Monsters is deep, complex, and dark. We are soooooo excited for tonight's with Liselle Sambury. To join us, simply register for free. Link in bio: @sistahscifi | www.sistahscifi.com | https://sistahscifi.com/pages/events Reposted from @sistershelves [#SisterShelvesReviews] Delicious Monsters by @lisellesambury ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Release: 28 February 2023 I did not expect this YA horror book will leave me emotional. I finished it up during a ride and if it wasn't because of my family in there, I might bawl my eyes out 😭 This book is creepy and atmospheric but not that scary. The real scary part of this book for me is about childhood trauma, dark pasts, sinister secrets, and toxic parents. All of them mixing with supernatural elements are just perfect! This book has depth!!! 🙌 Thank you so much to @hearourvoicestours & @simonteen for giving me this ARC in exchange for an honest review and having me on this tour ❤️ -Fasya- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - #HearOurVoices #HOV #DeliciousMonsters #BookRecs #BookReviews #ReadWithMe #NewBookAlert #NewRelease #YAhorror #HorrorBooks  #sistahscifi #LiselleSambury (at Sistah Scifi) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpQU4xbP5MT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[briebliophile]

Midnight Sun by Stephanie Meyer

I’ve read the books. I’ve seen the movies. I thought I knew the story, but this peppers in so much more detail that I didn’t even know I wanted. I definitely found myself throughout the original four books wondering Edward’s thoughts and perspective on things and this was a satisfying delivery. In the sixth installment in the Twilight Saga, Meyer takes the reader through the events of the first novel, Twilight, through the eyes of Edward. For the first time the reader is able to hear Edward’s thoughts, experience the events that Bella was not present for, and hear the conversations among the Cullen coven. Additionally, the reader is given a behind the scenes view of Edward’s mind reading ability in live action throughout the novel. Via his gift of mind reading, Edward offers the reader new insight on familiar characters from the mundane school drama of Mike and Jessica to the sinister thoughts of James and Laurent. Though Edward and his family’s backstories are told to Bella in the original book, the reader is treated to a much more thorough account of that past and a deeper dive into the early days of Carlisle’s coven.

I was a big fan of the Twilight series (books and movies, though a lot of the movies didn’t live up to my expectations) at the height of the Twihard fever days. I’ve never thought that the books were particularly well written but also not so poorly written that it really affected my ability to enjoy the events of the books. As I’ve grown older I do have to agree that the story is predatory and more than a little icky. A one-hundred-year old man in a seventeen-year old’s body is able to overcome his overwhelming bloodlust for a seventeen-year-old girl and they become obsessed with one another and fall in love? I mean its problematic. We can analyze and say that. But as in most fantasy novels I read, I do not find it so problematic that I am not able to see it for the fiction that it is and fall into step with enjoying the story.

I found the change of perspective refreshing. I enjoyed the new insight into Alice, Jasper, and Edward’s gifts and the history of Carlisle’s life. After reading this I am now craving more story that gives the proper time and attention to Esme. I feel like she is such a powerful character who shaped so much of Edward and the others in his coven but is not given nearly enough of the spotlight. I’d also very much like to see more of the Edward perspective during parts of Breaking Dawn and maybe even a little beyond. Overall, I very much enjoyed this book and would undoubtedly read more in the Twilight series should Meyer indulge us.

★★★★☆

[purplehillwrites]

UNSEEN LETTERS// . I won’t write for you an another time, Done with wasting my ink, On your descending replies, I pour my heart into them, Just for you treated them like a cheap sight, You never opened them, Before throwing them out, When you get enough of something, You state it as less of worth, My letters were just piece of paper, Perhaps you never had eyes to see through, Now I rekindle your words through my mind, The way you said, Those rose petals and lavender scent were more like a stage, I am just a little kid, I’m way too desperate, And, You’re too older to play, Well you made me reconsider my heart, Now you wait through your doorstep, Wait to get my useless yearning again, The one that I’ll never send, Maybe they’re better be left unseen, Yes, they’re truly better that way. . Vaishnavi/ @purple_hilll 💜 . P.S: This one is completely out of imagination and inspired by Taylor Swift song “Tolerate it”. .

[studyingstuffwithem]

•WELCOME, FRIENDS• 

Hi I’m Emily and welcome to whatever this Instagram account ends up being (a booksta, a studygram, a public journal). I’m so excited to finally have created an instagram to pair with my Tumblr (studyingstuffwithem). Posting stuff like this on Tumblr started as a hobby but it eventually grew into something bigger than I imagined — now I just have to bring the audience from there to here. 

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This summer has been FULL of reading. I finished “The Silent Patient” by @alex.michaelides and recently began reading “Small Great Things” by @jodipicoult. Today, @markmanson’s “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck” was delivered to my house so I HAD to start reading that. I’ll let you know how it is, I’m so excited! - https://www.instagram.com/p/CC_t5yAA07C/?igshid=6faowwrs0ytm

[readingwithcarol]

march, 17

i'm so grateful this week has been sooo productive.

i've been able to weak up one hour early than the necessary in order to keep up with readings; in addition to that, i could study every single day and now i have a free day!

i'm just going to review notes for latin classes because it scares the hell out of me lol - but, of course, mainly rest so i can restore energy for the week.

in the picture, a reading for linguistics i had this week + black tea, my new bff.

xx!