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God bless ancient AND modern biographers

March’s fiction and an old timer on my TBR. So far: super unsettling and bizarrely realistic?

The Creature’s story breaks my heart every freaking time

Coming across Latin here is like finally seeing a family tree branch I recognize.

When I got my degree in Classical Studies… I don’t think I went ancient enough.

Man, I love language.

Just kidding about “Confessions”; starting this one over as my February Non-Fiction

Victor, my guy… I actually don’t think you should say that you suffered more than Justine.

February’s non-fiction!

Annual reread with my students and Victor Frankenstein is an unreliable narrator. Prove me wrong.

The switch between narrations was WILD

I’ve never trusted a narrator less in my life

Winter Weekend Read 👍

Miss Clack, you’re the worst

Why do I tear up every time people do what they love with reckless abandon?

I honestly had no idea that astronomy was such a harrowing field. Please don’t catch me up in a cage with a telescope.

Honestly I’m eating this up

There’s something about astronomy and humanity’s persistent obsession with it that never fails to awe me.

Annual reread for class! Milton’s poetic language? Top notch! His understanding of women as people and ideal gender roles? Lackluster at best.

As a Classical Studies student reading Latin texts, I get an immense amount of satisfaction and conviction from Chapter 3, “Reading.”

‘Tis the season for labyrinthine dark academia!

Reading this book along with my students, too. An absolute masterpiece of suspense, allusion, and imagery.

Slowly but surely

Maturing is realizing that Thoreau actually cooked with some of this

This probably isn’t popular, but the more I read Walden the more I appreciate it.
That said, I am absolutely reading it bc I’m teaching it and I believe in doing reading with my students, for better or worse.
Here we go again, I guess!

Beorn is the absolute GOAT and the scene where the dwarves come in two at a time always sends me