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Medee, 1898 Alphonse Mucha

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countryhouse lazing

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Angelo Morbelli, Awakening (1878-80)

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tell me that this aint how francis looks like

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the black saint & the sinner lady & the dead & the truth, morgan parker // the truth the dead know, anne sexton.

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Hey!

So I just started a book club called Donna Tartt Book Club.

We'll mostly read classic novels (as well as others) and discuss them. Everyone is invited to join. :) Here's the link:

The first book we'll read will be The Secret History as a way to honor the book club's name.

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I’ve spent my whole life daydreaming. It embarrasses me to think of tallying the hours. It feels like ingratitude. It feels like infidelity. It’s often been about infidelity. I’ve daydreamed while walking, while running, while drinking, while smoking—sitting in the Boston cold, seventeen years old, daydreams sprouting like so many weeds from the cracked sidewalk of a broken heart. I’ve daydreamed on every form of transport—something about commuting feels conducive to daydreaming, the pockets of time in between our commitments, and the fact of the body in motion, neither here nor there, available for an elsewhere. I’ve daydreamed to music and in silence, in solitude and in company. It’s hardly exceptional.

- Leslie Jamison, Dreamers in broad daylight: ten conversations

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trois moineaux,

pastels

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of betrayals, cabals, and a dissolute thief of shadows, in the vein of Neil Gaiman and Erin Morgenstern.

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let's hear it for our annabeth!!! so so excited for her!!!

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— Warsan Shire, Home

[text ID: Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women; kitchen of lust, / bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. / Sometimes the men - they come with keys, / and sometimes, the men - they come with hammers.]

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Advert for The Damned from 1977 (Damned Damned Damned)

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Donna Tartt // C.S. Lewis

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—The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

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The Secret History, Donna Tartt // Vicious, V. B. Schwab