#theclassicsreader

[soracities]

OK so my partner and I are both pretty short. (I'm 4 foot something & he's shorter than a lot of the women we know.) We make jokes regularly about how "small" each other is. For example we joke about the other one being so small that we can't even see them or that they're "almost invisible." Or if we're being lazy and want the other person to do something for us, we say, "But I'm so small..." It's a running joke.

"almost invisible" i am genuinely losing my mind this running joke is IMPECCABLE and adorable beyond words im in love!!!

[reading-valkyrie]

(...) but my dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from Frankenstein

[macrolit]

TB (in my mind) to the time theclassicsreader suggested my next giveaway should consist of all the books required of her next semester.

Macrolit, laughing to himself about theclassicsreader

[reading-valkyrie]

(...) solicitude was my only consolation – deep, dark, deathlike solicitude.

Mary Shelley, from ‘Frankenstein’

[soracities]

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?

“Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells

[…]

In the room the women come and goTalking of Michelangelo

[…]

I know the voices dying with a dying fall Beneath the music from a farther room.       So how should I presume?

[…]

I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

[…]

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

[…]

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown.”

[natreads]

haly-reads said: i can understand how you feel and can relate. If I was in your place, I would continue reading the book! Or any other book as I love to read 🥰🤗

I finished the book a couple of days ago! But reading something else does sound fun. I’m still gently making my way out of a reading slump and kind of maybe sort of burnout, so I’m gonna be kind to myself!

theclassicsreader said: can you get someone else to come over last minute? :(

We’re turning it into family dinner, so nothing will go to waste at least!

[earlymoderngothic]

@theclassicsreader replied to your text post:

vegan chicken nuggets are a staple part of my diet, tbh

it’s the first time i’ve had vegan (rather than just vegetarian or meat-free) but i’m hoping they become a staple part of my diet too, lol

[earlymoderngothic]

@theclassicsreader replied to your text post

i use it occasionally for some things but it's definitely not a very intuitive thing imo ?? idk it's complicated

yeah, i understand what you mean. i’ve even tried watching videos about how to use it but it’s too complicated for me.