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Weekend Quote: Bantering
“It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one’s work to take in duties not traditionally within one’s realm; but bantering is of another dimension altogether. For one thing, how would one know for sure that at any given moment a response of the bantering sort is truly what is expected? One… Read more >>
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Character Thursday: Mrs. Moore
It feels so long since I last posted! Since school started, most of my reading time has been for school. I read on the bus, at school, and at home, but there is always more… Anyways, I managed to squeeze in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and The Hobbit (still re-reading). For British history class,… Read more >>
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Weekend Quote: Futility
“And if he finally burst through the outermost door—but that can never, never happen—the royal capital city, the centre of the world, is still there in front of him, piled high and full of sediment.” – Kafka, ‘An Imperial Message’ This is part of a much longer paragraph about futility. What I love about this… Read more >>
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The Ladies’ Paradise
The Ladies’ Paradise, one of my required books for history class, was my introduction to the author Émile Zola and his twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart series. Apparently, this series may be read out-of-order, and indeed, The Ladies’ Paradise works well as a standalone novel. It is the eleventh installment and (according to Wiki) takes place in the… Read more >>
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Hi, I’m Marian—I talk about classics, history, and other books on this blog, as well as on YouTube.
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