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This is how it feels to read a classic that everyone in the world has already read and loves

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Magic Tree House #1-10 (1992-97)

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Before the internet kittens had to call everyone individually to explain how small and cute they were. Ca. 1920 - 1935. Source.

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“‘If you will recollect, we are now in Autumn—season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.’

‘Season of what?’

‘Mists, sir, and mellow fruitfulness.’”

-The Code of The Woosters (1938), P.G. Wodehouse

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reading the collected letters of shirley jackson and this is from a letter to her agent while she was working on the haunting of hill house

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- PG Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters

Happy autumn, everyone.

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As he said, he was willing to go to the ends of the earth in search of her. But the earth has many ends, being round, so that he did not know which way to turn.

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, trans. Richard Pevear

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Love Ancillary Justice it's all Breq showing up places "I'm Breq an impossibly cool and ultracompetent expressionless determinator with inhuman reflexes on a two-decades-long revenge quest. And this is Seivarden, I just found her in the trash and she has nothing to do with my plans. No I don't like her and she doesn't like me either. We are not to be separated."

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A young Harrowhark in formal attire. I've been sitting on this one for months and I'm not completely done but I figured I'd never really finish it so might as well post it.

I had a lot of fun drawing all the bones 😁

Closeup under the cut

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my first words were no live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality

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It has been an astonishing 20 YEARS since Susanna Clarke first published her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell on 8th September 2004.

To celebrate, we have planned a Readalong for old fans, those who have had it on their TBR pile for a while and haven't managed to get round to it, and for those who maybe haven't even heard of it yet.

The Readalong will start off on 2nd September 2024, with discussions taking place on the official discord for the chapters being each week. We also have groups on StoryGraph and Goodreads for those who would like to keep track in those places, which will be linked to closer to September.

We have broken the book down into chunks of roughly 70 pages per week, in the hopes that this is a fairly gentle reading pace to fit into your lives, as the book is a bit of a beast.

Please follow this blog for more information as we keep you updated!

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Security guard. Photo by Francesc Català-Roca, 1953. Source.

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Elinor Glyn, and I believe based on other photos I’ve found that the cats are named Candide and Zadig. 1931. Source.

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Camera girls. Late 1930s- Early 1940s.

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growing up in the ninth house

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library acrylic on paper

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Edwardian Pompadours - Gibson Girls