Like...just read this beautiful sentence! #ClassicBooks

"But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths." - Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu.

Years ago, @JFries47 recommended I read the original #Dracula story, #Carmilla. I finally got around to it and it is such a delight. And unexpected lesbian vampire romp that predates by 25 years. Looks like I finally started reading again. #ClassicBooks #Horror

I've been slowly working my way through my pile of shame books for 10 years.

I've found an app, called Serial Reader, that gives me a 20 min chunk of a classic novel every day.

I finished The Mark of Zorro that way, and now I'm 15% in to my first ever Dickens - David Copperfield.

The app and books are free with no ads. I just paid the $4 to upgrade though, because you get a few useful features - like a Read Later queue.

Well worth a try, I read my daily bit over breakfast or lunch.
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@SerialReader
#reading #ClassicBooks #CharlesDickens #DavidCopperfield #serialreaderapp

“The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.”

#CormacMcCarthy #BloodMeridian #Books #Bookshelf #ClassicBooks #bookstodon

Life Lesson: I started reading "Star Soldiers" by Andre Norton. Not only do I find Norton is a woman whom I'd never heard of, but she was a true pioneer for women authors in Sci-Fi. I'm only 70 pages in, but Warhammer40K could take some notes. Norton is a new favourite author!

#SciFi #AmReading #ClassicBooks

One of life's biggest disappointments is that I've never seen a steam shovel digging out a foundation. Or operating as a building's heating plant.

#kidlit #kiddielit #classicbooks #steamshovel

One of my favorite illustrations from the 1914 edition of The Secret Garden, illustrated Charles Robinson. The pensive atmosphere...

#garden #art #traditionalart #books #classicbooks #childrensliterature

Word changes spark outrage
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Controversy swirls

#roalddahl #classicbooks #censorship #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/books/roald-dahl-books-changes.html

Some gorgeous new, small hardback editions in the Penguin Classics series: Steinbeck's Of Mice & Men, Mansfield's Bliss, Dostoyevsky 's White Nights, & Nin's A Spy in the House of Love

#books #ChooseBookshops #Edinburgh #Bruntsfield #ClassicBooks #livres #librairie #ClassicBooks #ClassicFiction #PenguinClassics

Finished making a science fiction book cover. In a painted style, inspired by 60s SF anthology novels.
#books #BookCover #painting #art #sciencefiction #classicbooks #retro

Six #ClassicBooks That Live Up to Their Reputation
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/12/long-classic-book-recommendations-moby-dick/672427/

These #novels are lengthy, but they lavishly reward the time and effort you pour into them.

I only have read two of these. I guess I have some more reading to do.

Six Classic Books That Live Up to Their Reputation
These novels are lengthy, but they lavishly reward the time and effort you pour into them.

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/12/long-classic-book-recommendations-moby-dick/672427/

#book #books #reading #novels #classicbooks #classics

⁦From #Asimov to #Pynchon, #ScienceFiction contains some fantastic, ambitious works of genre fiction. But a lot of us get overwhelmed. And it’s not that hard to fake a first-hand knowledge of these #books, because they’re everywhere, and we’ve heard people talk about them so many times.

#Gizmodo⁩ asked some of their favorite #writers what are the 10 #ClassicBooks that everyone pretends to have #read, and why you should actually read them.

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