Completed my BA in Literature and Drama with First Class Hons in England after a spell living in Hong Kong. Moving on to an MA in English Literary Studies, and becoming a certified mechanic. Stage manager for a local theatre group. I like knitting, getting my hands dirty working on my car, the sea, books, films, baking and the phrase DEAL WITH IT.
I don't like wedge heels, and I don't understand fashion. The two are possibly related.
I like taking photos, I'm not a photographer.
GOODBYE.
(Talk to me here)
Hello new semester, hello new reading list. And it’s quite possibly the best one of all time:
Animal Farm, George Orwell
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper
Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
Doctor Who, Russell T. Davies
The Sandman, Neil Gaiman
Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie
…and then he spoiled it all by adding Twilight.
But other than that. SERIOUSLY? I get to watch Doctor Who and say it’s for university?? And Sandman is on a course entitled “Introduction to Children’s Literature”?
I LOVE UNIVERSITY.
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My favourite bookshop in England…Barter Books in Alnwick. If you like books and are ever in the North East, check it out. It’s in an old train station and has a huge collection of old Penguins. And they will actually trade books for books.
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Jacket+Bookmarks, cleverly designed by Igor Udushlivy. He thought it would be great if we used dust jackets and bookmarks together to create a unique image for a paper book.
View more of his jacket+bookmark pieces, here.
LOVE IT.
“Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn’t even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign drooped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long eight-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy, shiny swell swung her up lazily and let her down, swaying her thing masts. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.”
-Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Possibly one of the most powerful images I have ever come across in a book.
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(via taste the rainbow♥)
for the lovers of Book Thief.
I love this book. And recommend it to anyone and everyone.
I know there is a new version of this, but this is the original. I plan on having read everything on it by the end of the year at the very latest. Bold I have read, italic I am currently reading.
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
‘Funny’, Will said, as they picked their way through. ‘Things are absolutely awful, and yet people look happier than usual. Look at them all. Bubbling.’
‘They are English’, Merriman said.
‘Quite right’, said Will’s father. ‘Splendid in adversity, tedious when safe. Never content, in fact. We’re an odd lot. You’re not English are you?’
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‘I am terrified of empty books. The blank pages are waiting, no, demanding to be written on, and I am always afraid that what I write is not good enough for the beauty of the book. Putting pen to paper gives a permanence to all those thoughts that flit through my head. And once you succumb to their demand to be written, the words demand to be read, which is probably the worst part of all.
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Six Characters Looking For an Author, Luigi Pirandello
Everyone should read this play.
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