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"At this point of his Autobiography the writer continues, "Now came one of the most important occurrences in my life." The important event in question was his acquaintance with Richarda Smith, the lady who afterwards became his wife." retweet

the annual scary book in book club

potentially the first set of poetry i have ever enjoyed reading, must be getting old

the sun is shining, the flowers are blooming and i don't know what i'm going to do next year when i don't have ali smith's to just punctuate my year so brilliantly

happy pre-back-to-school reading season!!

im so EXCITED*


* i spend a suspicious amount of time and energy reading these people for someone who stands firmly against the focuses and methods of economic historians as a group....

"Are you familiar with catastrophe theory" how you know you're reading the right book

TRULY being blessed by the reading gods this summer - incredible so far and lots of references to the same things my current phil of mind read is discussing which is giving main character vibes

we're not even 2 weeks into summer reading and the bar is being set astronomically high - incredible incredible INCREDIBLE and immaculately matching the mid june english vibes

let this be a lesson to lecturers that you can convert students into readers of your books through the quantity of cat memes in your classes

anne has 4 of the 5 total braincells shared between the entire cast of this novel and I love it

summer hps reading begins get HYPE

well tess cannot catch a break can she

"This solitude oppressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong."

me, after i send a draft to anyone and they don't reply instantly

the humour in this book is unparalleled, why on earth did i wait so long to start on gaskell

"so far as I know, [physicists and chemists] have never been seen to quarrel about the respective rights of physics, of chemistry, of physical chemistry, or (assuming the existence of such a term) of chemical physics"

tell me you haven't met a historian of science without TELLING me you haven't met a historian of science

"The details of Smith's own life are fairly mundane. He was born in the village of Kircaldy"

not this, we aren't even 10 pages in and we've been destroyed and had our town misspelt, things are not looking good

listen with the amount set for classics this week i am finishing this in the semester come hell or high water

hasok said you can't graduate from HPS without having read it, and i took that literally

halloween read get hype

yikes, it's looking like it will be short books central for the next few weeks

i live for the days approximately every 2 months that amazon makes the next volume of heartstopper 99p

getting whiplash and a half from previous read, as Dawkins tries to draw a hard line between physics and biology from the get go, we're in for an interesting time

george eliot really said I'm going to slow the pace right down in the middle and then throw in the most crazy last 200 pages, chaos is going DOWN in middlemarch and I am so here for it

my old maths teacher lent this to my sister (like he did when I did AH) so I am re-reading in an attempt to spark any of my previous love for half my degree that seems to be a bit lacking at the moment