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If you're lamenting the fact that you used to be able to shoot through a 500-page novel in like a day when you were in middle school and now you can't, it's worth bearing in mind that a big part of that is because when you were in middle school, your reading comprehension sucked. Yes, mental health and the stresses of adult life can definitely be factors, but it's also the case that reading is typically more effortful as an adult because you've learned to Ponder The Implications. The material isn't just skimming over the surface of your brain anymore, and some of the spoons you used to spend on maximising your daily page count are now spent on actually thinking about what you're reading!
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theclassicsreader · 4 hours
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theclassicsreader · 8 hours
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Emma (2020)
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theclassicsreader · 9 hours
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leaving mr. mackenzie by jean rhys
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theclassicsreader · 10 hours
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Sylvia Plath, "The Rival." Ariel
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So embarrassing but who cares. But so embarrassing but who cares but it’s so embarrassing but also who cares but it really is embarrassing but really who cares BUT it’s so embarrassing though probably nobody cares but it’s embarrassing asf and nobody cares but
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how do you become so well read?
by reading
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Julia Vinograd.
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theclassicsreader · 2 days
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IDGAF if the women in my fiction are empowering or aspirational, I'm an adult, I don't need role models, I want the women in my fiction to be interesting, and if that involves being pathetic, hypocritical, amoral, or trapped in a delightfully dysfunctional relationship so be it
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theclassicsreader · 2 days
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“we need to teach media literacy in schools” guys was i really the only person paying attention in english class bffr
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theclassicsreader · 2 days
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all shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well
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theclassicsreader · 3 days
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Audre Lorde, from "The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism" (1981)
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theclassicsreader · 3 days
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me, placing jane austen, emily brontë, charlotte brontë, and elizabeth gaskell next to each other on my bookshelf: the girlies
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theclassicsreader · 5 days
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to begin with, the sweet grass by mary oliver, from “devotions”
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theclassicsreader · 6 days
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Absolutely insane lines to just drop in the middle of an academic text btw. Feeling so normal about this.
[ A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1, Prof. David Daiches, first published in 1960 ]
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theclassicsreader · 7 days
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emily brontë receives the first kill yourself anon in 1848
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theclassicsreader · 7 days
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We decided to publish this survey a second time because, by accident, the first version only lasted for a day.
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