Hmmm. It may just be the age of the book, but this language is sooo purple. All jokes about the F name aside, Victor is clearly the monster.

Not sure I'd actually recommend people read this. There isn't really any sci in this sci fi.

#Reading2023 #SciFi #ClassicLiterature

"Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened. Thus, to take an instance, we suddenly discover that we have been deaf in one ear for we don't know how long, but, say, half an hour." -- from Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie #PeterPan #ClassicLiterature #ClassicalLiterature #Life

alright, my tumblr account just got nuked for no reason and I was pretty ambivalent to the energy on my old instance, so let's give this a try. one more #introduction post.

I'm Lee, I'm a #genderfluid #anarchist based in #glasgow. My main interests are #illustration and #cartooning , #classicliterature , #writing , #plushmaking and #sewing , and #folklore (especially #ghoststories ). Big fan of #discoelysium and #umineko if that tells you anything about my personal venn diagram of taste. Interested in online radicalisation, cults and extreme belief. Love #cooking and #boardgames and being a hater.

I am mostly looking for interesting media recommendations and (I cannot stress this enough) people who know how to be normal online.

Esther laughing in Buddy Willard's face when he asks her if he's what drives women to madness is a moment i wish for anyone out there who has ever loved a mediocre masc

#SylviaPlath #TheBellJar #ClassicLiterature #ClassicLit #MediocreMen

"Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night."
—From "Dover Beach" by #MatthewArnold
#poetry #poem #ClassicLiterature #quote

"Ever since Buddy Willard had told me about that waitress I had been thinking I ought to go out and sleep with somebody myself. Sleeping with Buddy wouldn't count, though, because he would still be one person ahead of me, it would have to be with somebody else."

#TheBellJar
Written by #SylviaPlath & Directed by Larry David
#quotes #ClassicLiterature

Wishing the legendary writer, poet and literary critic, Edgar Allan Poe a very "happy" birthday.

January 19, 1809

#poe #edgarallanpoe #poehouse #poestories #spookyseason #spooky #spookystories #classicliterature #darkarts #spookyart #retrogoth #macabre #macabreart #gothicart #raven #blackcat #classicliterature #literature #skull

Book Review: How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn

https://othemts.wordpress.com/2023/01/18/book-review-how-green-was-my-valley-by-richard-llewellyn/

#books #bookreviews #classicliterature #Wales

Here's one for my friends in the #WritingCommunity .

(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon .)

#Humour #Jokes #Jokestodon
#Writers #Authors #JaneAusten #Bookstodon #Books #ClassicLiterature

Oh gosh, it seems Edgar Rice Burroughs was a eugenicist who thought humanity had reached its zenith in the British aristocracy!

I need to finish reading this but the reason for Tarzan's infant survival and mastery of the beasts was because he was a superior being! (Pause for laughter.)

So myths of white supremacy are created and perpetuated.

#Tarzan #History #Eugenics #ClassicLiterature #EdgarRiceBurroughs

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237971319_Disneys_Tarzan_Edgar_Rice_Burroughs_Eugenics_and_Visions_of_Utopian_Perfection

If you're participating in any exciting #readingchallenge this year, please share! I'm interested in possibly jumping on board, depending how it fits with my schedule.

I'm going to be reading more #worldliterature #willacather #salmanrushdie and #virginiawoolf among others. I'm interested in #classicliterature and #literaryfiction but also #nonfiction and other genres.

#bookstodon #bookdiscussion #reading2023 #bluestalking

I just finished Reader, I Murdered Him by Betsy Cornwell. It’s a bold, evocative #QueerFiction #YA reimagining of the novel Jane Eyre told from Adèle’s perspective. As a #ClassicLiterature nerd, I loved this concept and the execution, especially the #Sapphic aspect of the story.

Here’s my #BookReview

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5192457985

Since I'm new to this server, I guess it's time for presentations.
So, I'm Yohann, father of one, native French speaker and English teacher to French middle schoolers.
Beside #linguistics, #history, #philosophy and #classicliterature, I'm a #ttrpg enthusiast who tries to be a decent #GM.
The games I enjoy running at the moment are #NightsBlackAgents, #TrailofCthulhu, #Hillfolk / #DramaSystem, #13thAge, #TheDeeSanction, #Microscope, #Fiasco and #Agon.
Nice to read and interect with you all.

Hello #bookstodon

I went into this - the last book of my 2022 Modern Library Classics Challenge - not knowing anything about it and thinking I would be disappointed. Boy was I wrong!

It's a slow burn psychological thriller with great characters and expressive, evocative language. Based on Goodreads, people either like it or hate it. I'm in the Like It Camp.

#bookreview #BookRecommendations #classicliterature #classicbooks #josephconrad #bookblogger #booklover

https://www.stevesbookstuff.com/2022/12/book-review-victory-island-tale-12-in.html

Hello #bookstodon

I went into this - the last book of my 2022 Modern Library Classics Challenge - not knowing anything about it and thinking I would be disappointed. Boy was I wrong!

It's a slow burn psychological thriller with great characters and expressive, evocative language. Based on Goodreads, people either like it or hate it. I'm in the Like It Camp.

#bookreview #BookRecommendations #classicliterature #classicbooks #josephconrad #bookblogger #booklover

https://www.stevesbookstuff.com/2022/12/book-review-victory-island-tale-12-in.html

Looking for more narrative poems and prose either inspired by or creatively adapting epic literature, like Alice Oswald's Memorial, Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red, Maria Dahvana Headley's Beowulf translation and Derek Walcott's Omeros

Any suggestions?

#poetry #poems #EpicPoetry #literature #classicliterature #ancientgreek #ancientliterature

Not only do I want my book to become a best seller, to rebuild a small town, but most of all I want it to become a classic. Because those are the books every generation remembers and loves forever. #writingcommunity #amquerying #literaryagent #classicliterature #books

Kids! I love it when your daughter asks questions about #classicliterature because you read #classiclit at school, etc. Currently, being asked about King Lear.
She is 26, I'm 61

Kids! I love it when your daughter asks questions about #classicliterature because you read #classiclit at school, etc. Currently, being asked about King Lear

#7Books

1 #ThePrincessBride

2 #HitchhikersGuide series

3 #TheVampireChronicles

4 #HPLovecraft

5 #FightClub and all Chuck P. books

6 #NeilHimself books, esp. #AmericanGods

7 #ClassicLiterature

I know, it's cheating, but how to pick? Shakespeare, Homer, Aesop, Grimm, Wilde, Goethe, Shelley, Plato, L.F. Baum... So many greats!