Thank you!
Thank you!
FOR A STUDENT WHO USED AI TO WRITE A PAPER Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work. -Joseph Fasano
I donβt know. I love this Joseph Fasano poem and have it pinned on my office door but I donβt know what to actually do about any of this.
From Faber the FAB Prize highlights new talent from underrepresented backgrounds with a publishing deal for the winner.
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London traffic yesterday π΄
Just hanging out in the library with Hozier and some unicorns. (Serious study, albeit a bit of a side quest)
When you accidentally attend an eighteenth-century dancing lesson and accidentally buy a biography of the Duke of Wellington #history #amreading
Early bird catches the moon, the owls, and some time to read about whisky and taxes. Fun times.
Nothing says Thursday like coffee cake and an article on illicit whisky in the long eighteenth century. Let the dissertation commence π₯
#history #amstudying #student #cake #eighteenthcenturylife
Hairdresser time equals a perfect opportunity to catch up on some ARC reading. This eARC of @lorajones.comβs βThe Woman in the Wallpaperβ is glorious so far and the illustrations are ππ» (gifted / PR product) #amreading
Excellent! π
POV: youβre thinking about POVs and persons.
I always thought third was my favourite, but Iβm learning to love others.
A new character materialised earlier this week and she wants this novel to be first person. She also wants to address the reader directly, and kiss the antihero #amwriting
Coffee of the day. More coffee plotting. Thinking about carriages and coachmen. And library books.
Yesterday was coffee cake and plotting; today is copyright quibbles and stale stollen. Apprehensive about what tomorrow might bring.
A rare moment when all the right ingredients came together!
Cake and plotting π
At the wonderful stage of a novel where all the potential is visible and none of the plot holes π
Giveaway alert (but please donβt enter too much as I would like to win, please and thank you).
Daughterβs history homework. Genius.
#historyjokes
#gameofthrones
Flashes of colour in the frost this morning. Helping my thoughts on Frankenstein, Walter Scott, and piracy.
Incentives to finish this essay: some fabulous historical fiction ARCs. Halfway through Sycorax, which is a sensory wonder so far, debating whether to go for revolutionary wallpaper or Victorian art mystery next?
Hope the ideas stayed put until you could write them down and that all went well!
Yes π
Iβll tick two of those.
The tutor Iβm currently for whom Iβm currently writing about Frankenstein would say that, strictly speaking, I am not Gothic but have Gothic elements. And those elements are fascinating.
Obligatory snow picture. Very helpful for Frankenstein reading.
Celebrating my first 1k followers on π¦ by giving away a hardback copy of my fave book of 2024, #Costanza by Rachel Blackmore! ππ
All you have to do is follow & repost. Happy to ship internationally, so tell your friends.
Will pick a winner next Friday. #BookSky π
If youβre looking for romantic cheer in the gloom this is essential viewing and itβs on iplayer now.
Seems Iβm not alone in my love for this 1944 magical, mystical, whimsical masterpiece from #PowellandPressburger
Lovely piece in todayβs guardian:
amp.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...
One of my all time favourites π₯°
Image shows a set of silver backed false teeth from the mid nineteenth century in a display cabinet.
How I spent my Saturday: looking at the Duke of Wellingtonβs false teeth. Nice.
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Epic in every way! Well done!