PhD Candidate | English Lecturer | Executive Director | Aspiring Writer | Book Wrangler | Christian
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Rachel Christine retweeted
I love Penguin Editions so much. They're like the perfect middle ground between popular and scholarly editions. The introductions are generous and informative but still accessible; they usually have copious notes; they're affordable... Just great.
Rachel Christine retweeted
Nine books to get you started if youβre only just getting into classics
![[Jane Eyre, The Count of Monte Cristo, Passing, War & Peace, Alice in Wonderland, Les Miserables, The Man Who Was Thursday, Beowulf (Tolkien translation), Catβs Cradle]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HUyAyG0bgAEyJUT.jpg?name=orig)
ALT [Jane Eyre, The Count of Monte Cristo, Passing, War & Peace, Alice in Wonderland, Les Miserables, The Man Who Was Thursday, Beowulf (Tolkien translation), Catβs Cradle]
Rachel Christine retweeted
Especially excited for this one - finally (!) can share that @Palgrave has published my encyclopedia entry on Romantic-era women's writing and the anticipation of science fiction! link.springer.com/rwe/10.100β¦
Rachel Christine retweeted
Not kidding when I say, a lot of the misery of modern life derives from the fact that we live on computers when we should be living in villages bordered by woods, canopied by stars, hearing the owl shriek in the night and waking to the clear ringing of bells.
Rachel Christine retweeted
The argument going forward will be that expecting them to read by three or four is unrealistic or unreasonable. When we know that the majority of people who become lifelong readers are those who started early. The goal is the complete abolition of reading.
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Rachel Christine retweeted
Every English BA should have a poetics requirement covering tropes, schemes, and prosody.
Rachel Christine retweeted
Since getting married, Iβve endeavored to buy more physical books. Between myself, my wife and her parents downstairs, we have between two and three thousand books. They fill every nook & corner of our home. A home library is the single best investment you can make.
Rachel Christine retweeted
βWe were talking of dragons, Tolkien and I
In a Berkshire bar. The big workman
Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe
All the evening, from his empty mug
With gleaming eye, glanced towards us;
βI seen βem myself,β he said fiercely.β
- C.S. Lewis
Rachel Christine retweeted
Not exaggerating when I say the future depends on this catching on en masse. Kids, adults. Book clubs, silent reading groups. For the past twenty-five years tech has corroded our attention, intelligence and basic pleasure in living, and books are the key to winning them back.
Rachel Christine retweeted
Magna Carta, 1215, England (USA's copy, reissued 1297)
Medieval English history is American history!
Rachel Christine retweeted
It behooves all of us to become amateur historians. You need to be acquainted with the past. You need to seek out the best music, films & books from previous eras. Thatβs how we keep cultural memory alive. βTo be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.β
Rachel Christine retweeted
"Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education."
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Church at Auvers
π¨ Vincent van Gogh
