Ms.Deer

MA student | North American Studies/ Bookshop worker + university tutor/ Tea, coffee & cake enthusiast/ Probably carrying too many books

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-Ulysses by James Joyce

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Went to Vienna in February '25 to visit the archive and attend a conference. The archive wasn't very successful, so instead I saw lots of impressionist art!

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19 february, '25: finally putting my precious new notebooks to good use: book journaling and commonplacing//

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JOMP Book Photo Challenge - February - 05/02/25 - Pink Books

Bunny by Mona Awad + Iced Matcha Latte. I miss the warmer days.

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"What if God is something else altogether?"

-Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

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What a beautiful day! See you next year FBM!

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9/15/24 💌

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"When I was born, it was our father who named me. He named me for the sun: fiery and incandescent."

-Elektra by Jennifer Saint

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“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

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Mexican Gothic ✨✨

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Part II Book IV: Woolf compared Dostoevsky’s novels to ‘seething whirlpools’. This one is no exception. As I get acquainted with the Dostoyevskian abyss of the human soul for the second time (the first one being Crime and Punishment), I can only marvel at the sheer brilliance of the writer to have come up with such leviathan as well as soulful characters.

I have profound respect for Alyosha. He's someone that I can just aspire to be. Bring the embodiment of patience and compassion in a world torn with turmoil, Alyosha emerges as a beacon of peace amidst chaos. I don't know if his extreme selflessness is to be condemned but guided by the teachings of his mentor, Father Zossima, he struggles from one end to the other to bring peace and resolve to everyone's mind.

Reading Dostoyevsky is an experience in its own right!

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sunflower & next read

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"I will keep thy secret, as I have his," said Hester."

-The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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"'Death surely has power over everyone,' Hezekiah whispers, desperate."

-Pandora by Susan Stokes-Chapman