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czolgosz · 2 months

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i went to a used book sale today... procured:

railroad color history: new york central railroad (brian solomon & mike schafer) — i'm not actually that into trains but it appealed to me.

the complete guide to the soviet union (jennifer louis & victor louis) — travel guide from 1980

an anthology including the big sleep (raymond chandler), "the undignified melodrama of the bone of contention" (dorothy l. sayers), "the arrow of god" (leslie charteris), "i can find my way out" (ngaio marsh), instead of evidence (rex stout), "rift in the loot" (stuart palmer & craig rice), "the man who explained miracles" (john dickson carr), & rebecca (daphne du maurier) (i already have this one..) — it's volume 2 of something (a treasury of great mysteries) which annoys me but whatever

an anthology including "godmother tea" (selena anderson), "the apartment" (t. c. boyle), "a faithful but melancholy account of several barbarities lately committed" (jason brown), "sibling rivalry" (michael byers), "the nanny" (emma cline), "halloween" (mariah crotty), "something street" (carolyn ferrell), "this is pleasure" (mary gaitskill), "in the event" (meng jin), "the children" (andrea lee), "rubberdust" (sarah thankam mathews), "it's not you" (elizabeth mccracken), "liberté" (scott nandelson), "howl palace" (leigh newman), "the nine-tailed fox explains" (jane pek), "the hands of dirty children" (alejandro puyana), "octopus vii" (anna reeser), "enlightenment" (william pei shih), "kennedy" (kevin wilson), & "the special world" (tiphanie yanique) — i guess they're all short stories published in 2020 by usamerican/canadian authors

an anthology including the death of ivan ilyich (leo tolstoy) (i have already read this one..), the beast in the jungle (henry james), heart of darkness (joseph conrad), seven who were hanged (leonid andreyev), abel sánchez (miguel de unamuno), the pastoral symphony (andré gide), mario and the magician (thomas mann), the old man (william faulkner), the stranger (albert camus), & agostino (alberto moravia)

the ambassadors (henry james)

the world book desk reference set: book of nations — it's from 1983 so this is kind of a history book...

yet another fiction anthology......... including the general's ring (selma lagerlöf), "mowgli's brothers" (rudyard kipling), "the gift of the magi" (o. henry) (i have already read this one..), "lord mountdrago" (w. somerset maugham), "music on the muscatatuck" (jessamyn west), "the pacing goose" (jessamyn west), "the birds" (daphne du maurier), "the man who lived four thousand years" (alexandre dumas), "the pope's mule" (alphonse daudet), "the story of the late mr. elvesham" (h. g. wells), "the blue cross" (g. k. chesterton), portrait of jennie (robert nathan), "la grande bretèche" (honoré de balzac), "love's conundrum" (anthony hope), "the great stone face" (nathaniel hawthorne), "germelshausen" (friedrich gerstäcker), "i am born" (charles dickens), "the legend of sleepy hollow" (washington irving), "the age of miracles" (melville davisson post), "the long rifle" (stewart edward white), "the fall of the house of usher" (edgar allan poe) (i have already read this one..), the voice of bugle ann (mackinlay kantor), the bridge of san luis rey (thornton wilder), "basquerie" (eleanor mercein kelly), "judith" (a. e. coppard), "a mother in mannville" (marjorie kinnan rawlings), "kerfol" (edith wharton), "the last leaf" (o. henry), "the bloodhound" (arthur train), "what the old man does is always right" (hans christian anderson), the sea of grass (conrad richter), "the sire de malétroit's door" (robert louis stevenson), "the necklace" (guy de maupassant) (i have already read this one..), "by the waters of babylon" (stephen vincent benét), a. v. laider (max beerbohm), "the pillar of fire" (percival wilde), "the strange will" (edmond about), "the hand at the window" (emily brontë) (i have already read this one..), & "national velvet" (enid bagnold) — why are seven of these chapters of novels....? anyway fun fact one of the compilers here also worked on the aforementioned mystery anthology. also anyway Why did i bother to write all that ☹️

fundamental problems of marxism (georgi plekhanov) — book about dialectical/historical materialism which is published here as the first volume of something (marxist library) which is kind of odd to me tbh

one last (thankfully tiny) anthology including le père goriot (honoré de balzac) & eugénie grandet (honoré de balzac)

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brigitttt · 5 months

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8 11 20 for the book asks :)

hi lore!! <3 asks are from this list:

8. Favorite queer fiction book(s).

It's gonna have to be the series that got me into writing fanfiction actually, which is the Captive Prince series by C.S. Pacat. Yeah it's got romance and spice but it's also got a surprising amount of political intrigue and tactics. The characters are so nuanced and well-written, and it's no wonder that it has the following it does.

I will also add that I read Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell last year and realllllllly enjoyed it, just such cool worldbuilding in there. I should see what else she's put out since then. Oh wait and also One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston! And does the Six of Crows trilogy by Leigh Bardugo count? okay that's enough now

11. Favorite historical fiction.

I'm not sure I could name a favourite, but two recent reads have really stuck with me. The first is As the Women Lay Dreaming by Donald S. Murray, which is about the HMY Iolaire disaster, but told through the lens of a grandson both living with his grandfather as a boy and reading his grandfather's journal about being on the ship decades later. It's really tragic, but written so compellingly, and having been to the Isle of Skye myself and seen the landscape and the sea around it, it really hit a chord.

The second is Sistersong by Lucy Holland, which is about three siblings in a sub-roman Brythonic kingdom in what is now Devon and Cornwall, during the time when Saxons are invading. It has magical elements to it, and is also very queer, but it was its setting that was so intriguing to me, like almost Arthuriana but very much not. It's apparently a reimagining of the folk ballad "The Twa Sisters", which I didn't know about until googling it just now.

20. Where and how do you find new books to read?

I mostly live off of recommendations from friends and family, but sometimes I'll venture out to a bookstore and find something on my own. For example, As the Women Lay Dreaming was recommended to me by a friend who I'd been to Scotland with, who is Scottish herself and is making an effort to read more Scottish stories. I also have a friend who reads like a fiend and will throw book recs at me from left and right. I also have a mother with a house with over a thousand books in it (I counted, once, decades ago) who will also throw book recs at me but they often trend older (Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers, Frank Herbert, Tony Hillerman, etc). I suppose I sometimes also watch a tv show based on a book series and then read it, but I'm still not finished the first Wheel of Time book yet (my brother has already zoomed through them). Sometimes I'll see a piece of fanart for a book series on tumblr and then wonder what that's all about and then read 3 novels and several short stories about it (Captive Prince).

#ask games #thanks for the questions lore!! this made me actually think about historical fiction and the fact that I didn't know whether I read it orno #gpoy

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onceuponastarryeye · 9 months

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books read in twenty-twenty-four

hour zero - agatha christie (5/5)

if you could see the sun - ann liang (4/5)

his last bow - arthur conan doyle (4/5)

labor and monopoly capital: the degradation of work in the twentieth century - harry braverman (4/5)

the count of monte cristo (adapted text) - alexandre dumas (3.5/5)

before we say goodbye (btcgc #4) - toshikazu kawaguchi (5/5)

contagion - robin cook (2.5/5)

beach read - emily henry (4.5/5) (rr)

death by drowning and other stories - agatha christie (5/5)

little fires everywhere - celeste ng (4.75/5)

mrs. dalloway - virginia woolf (3.5/5) (rr)

five little pigs - agatha christie (4/5)

cinema e memória - milene de cássia silveira gusmão; paulo henrique alcântara; euclides santos mendes (3.5/5)

rouge - mona awad (3.75/5)

first love - ivan turguêniev (4/5)

the moving finger - agatha christie (3.5/5)

the memory police - yoko ogawa (5/5)

entre flechas e sapatos de cristal: fadas madrinhas s.a - kézia garcia (4.5/5)

the hunger games (thg #1) - suzanne collins (5/5) (rr)

the next girl - karla kovach (3/5)

the invisible man - h. g. wells (3.5/5)

death comes at the end - agatha christie (4/5)

welcome to the hyunam-dong bookstore - hwang bo-reum (4/5)

teias mortais - bel rodrigues, felipe castilho, jim anotsu, luisa geisler, samir machado de machado (5/5)

catching fire (thg #2) - suzanne collins (5/5) (rr)

introdução à filosofia de bergson - paulo césar rodrigues (4/5)

the very secret society of irregular witches - sangu mandanna (4.5/5)

the hollow - agatha christie (3.5/5)

hold tight - harlan coben (2.75/5)

the atlas complex (tas #3) - olivie blake (3/5)

todas as minhas libelulas (memórias dos pardes #1) - gabrielli casseta (5/5)

uma aprendizagem ou o livro dos prazeres - clarice lispector (5/5)

mockingjay (thg #3) - suzanne collins (5/5) (rr)

seis doses de culpa - luther alt (4/5)

the labours of hercules - agatha christie (4/5)

emily wilde's encyclopedia of faeries - heather fawcett (4/5)

a man lay dead - ngaio marsh (4/5)

manual de cortej para princesas desencantadas - alien, maina, lyra, gabi, raquel & dulci (5/5)

taken at the flood - agatha christie (4/5)

capitalismo de plataformas - nick srnicek (4/5)

the reapperance of rachel price - holly jackson (4/5)

funny story - emily henry (4.25/5)

normal people - sally rooney (5/5) (rr)

18 brumário - karl marx (3.25/5)

extraordinary stories - edgar allan poe (4.25/5)

roteiro perfeito - vi carvalho (4/5)

they came to baghdad - agatha christie (4/5)

the familiar - leigh bardugo (4/5)

cidades pequenas não guardam seguredos - kézia garcia (5/5)

método científico: uma abordagem ontológica - ivo tonet (3.5/5)

the starless sea - erin morgenstern (5/5)

jantar secreto - raphael montes (3.75/5)

mrs. mcginty's dead - agatha christie (4/5)

atenciosamente, seu primeiro amor - tatielle katluryn (3.5/5)

the poverty of theory -edward thompson (2/5/5)

penance - eliza clarke (4/5)

the time machine - h. g. wells (3.75/5)

they do it with mirrors - agatha christie (4/5)

nothing more to tell - karen mcmanus (3.75/5)

persuasion - jane austen (5/5) (rr)

a sound of thunder - ray bradbury (4/5)

the chalk man - c.j. tudor (3.75/5)

after the funeral - agatha christie (3.5/5)

a hundred years of solitude - gabriel garcia marquez (4/5)

ariel - sylvia plath (3.75/5)

i'm the girl - courtney summers (3/5)

a pocket full of rye - agatha christie (4/5)

the piano (creepers series) - edgar j. hyde (3.75/5)

natural beauty - ling ling huang (3.5/5)

northanger abbey - jane austen (5/5) (rr)

uma estrada de histórias - rúbia albuquerque (3/5)

o amor é como a lua - vi carvalho (4/5)

into the drowning deep (rolling in the deep #1) - mira grant (5/5)

destination unknown - agatha christie (4/5)

gentilmente, amor - gabrielli casseta, kell carvalho, vi carvalho, maina mattos (4/5)

whose body? - dorothy l. sayers (3.75/5)

o ardil da flexibilidade - sadi dal rosso (3.5/5)

hickory, dickory, dock - agatha christie (3/5)

joyland - stephen king (4/5)

a detetive ruby johnson e o mistério da mesa 44 - noemi de paula (2.5/5)

the secret history - donna tartt (5/5) (rr)

rolling in the deep (rolling in the deep #0.5) - mira grant (3.75/5)

4:50 from paddington - agatha christie (4.5/5)

a mulher na sociedade de classes: mito e realidade - heleith saffioti (4.25/5)

#another reading year!!#photos not mine btw #books #bea talks books #9 books read in january #little fires everywhere rewired my brain idk how to rate it or to think about it really #reading the memory police as a memory masters student was a great experience 10/10 recommend #11 books in february bc it's my last month of vacation before classes begin again....#tais mortais (deadly webs????) is a short stroy collection inspired by agatha chrstie and I LOVED IT #10 books in march yaaay!!!#9 books in april!!!#8 books in may... good enough #THE STARLESS SEA????!!!!!!!#11 books in june!!!!!!!!#persuasion is still the best book in the world is a masterpiece is a map to my soul #9 books in july #northanger abbey my beloved #10 books in august

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victortoft · 1 year

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Anders jeg har tænkt på at tænke mere.

Det er nemt for folk at tro jeg er pessimist, eller at jeg er misantrop. I fredags blev jeg fuld, og snakkede om kapitalismen. Jeg tror ikke den slutter, fra det her punkt er der ingen vej ud. Jeg tror ikke nødvendigvis, det er en dårlig ting. Eller jeg tror ikke, det giver mening at forholde sig til det ud fra ideer om undergang. Verden er gået under, det gjorde den for lang tid siden. Det er virkelig nemt, at snakke om forfald - jeg tror man burde snakke om forfald, men hvad ellers?

I virkeligheden er jeg ikke pessimist, i virkeligheden er jeg optimistisk i virkeligheden.

Det er svært, at forklare hvad jeg mener, når jeg siger naturen er smuk. Hvorfor jeg elsker regn. Hvorfor jeg elsker solen.

Når jeg går gennem regnen, og siger verden er uretfærdig, når jeg siger, jeg er vred over vejret. Det er en virkelig oplevelse, det er virkelig en oplevelse. Virkeligheden er min eneste fjende, men man må alliere sig med nogen. Jeg tror alt der nogensinde er sket, er en kolossal tragedie. Selvfølgelig er smerten forbundet med livet. Sindet kræver at dø. Døden gør os alle til mestre.

Man skal snakke i flere timer bare for at få lov til at være stille.

Et alfabet indeholder en hel roman. Jeg ved ikke, om jeg er alfabetet til romanen - romanen af alfabetet

Vidste du ordet vaccine er latin for “fra køer”? Den første vaccine var kokopper. For at stoppe nogen fra at få kopper gav man dem kokopper i stedet. Man kan overleve alting. Sygdommen for at redde sig selv, det en fin nok metafor.

Bill Callahan synger i sangen ‘All Thoughts Are Prey To Some Beast: “The leafless tree looked like a brain/the birds within were all the thoughts and desires within me”

Det er et flot citat. Naturen er min hjerne, jeg forholder mig til mig selv gennem mig selv. Hjernen er bare et sted, en oplevelse kan sidde. Men træet er tomt, det har intet kranie, det har intet omkring sig. Det har ingen beskyttelse, det har intet egentligt mål. Grenene vokser mod himlen for ingens skyld. Træet strækker sig for ingen nytte. Det strækker sig for solen. Det strækker sig for vinden, for regnen. Strækker sig fordi Bill Callahan sang det, selvom han ikke sang dét. Han synger i en anden sang:

“I started out in search of ordinary things/How much of a tree bends in the wind”

Hvor meget af træet er træet der bøjer? Hvor meget af noget, er noget af noget der bøjer?

Jeg tror kapitalismen har vundet, at vejret er elendigt. Jeg tror, kaffen på bordet er kold. Jeg tror, vi alle skal dø. Hold kæft det blir godt

Et sidste citat ville være

“How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks”

- Dorothy leigh Sayers

Victor

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justforbooks · 2 years

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Leslie Phillips, who has died aged 98, was a light comedian of the old school, closely associated with a roster of smooth-talking cads and lady-killers in the series of Carry On and Doctor films he graced from the late 1950s onwards.

He first coined his trademark phrase “I say, ding dong!” as the lubricious Jack Bell in Carry On Nurse (1958) and made the simple greeting “hello” sound like a frolicsome, impure invitation, earning him the nickname “King Leer” and lending itself to the one-word title of his immensely entertaining autobiography (2006).

He became a national Sunday lunchtime institution on BBC Radio’s The Navy Lark, in which he appeared as a hopeless lieutenant on HMS Troutbridge – alongside Stephen Murray, Jon Pertwee, Tenniel Evans, Heather Chasen and Ronnie Barker – between 1959 and 1977. It was never clear – deliberately so – whether he was a simpleton or a crook in this company of Royal Navy undesirables on the recommissioned frigate stationed off Portsmouth.

Despite his louche and carefree acting persona, Phillips was an ambitious and hard-working artist who in the late 60s toured the world in his own West End hit, The Man Most Likely To... – he rewrote Joyce Rayburn’s play, took the lead, produced and directed it.

He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in his mid-70s and featured in several major films, including George Cukor’s Les Girls (1957), with Gene Kelly and Kay Kendall, Sydney Pollack’s Out of Africa (1985), Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun (1987) and Roger Michell’s Venus (2007), playing an old thespian alongside Peter O’Toole and Richard Griffiths.

His prodigious work-rate derived from his impoverished background in Tottenham, north London, where from an early age he was the family breadwinner. His suave and polished persona was as much a creation as that of Terry-Thomas or Rex Harrison, and it gave his acting an edge of seditious malice, an air of unofficial naughtiness.

With the confidence that came from being told frequently he was a good-looking lad he developed a taste for fast cars, high living and beautiful women when the money rolled in. For a time he was the highest earning actor on the West End stage, and joined the Ibiza crowd in the 70s, keeping a house there in a colony of artists and writers that included his great friend Denholm Elliott.

He was married three times and had a long relationship (between the first and second marriages) with Caroline Mortimer, the daughter of Penelope Mortimer and step-daughter of John Mortimer, both writers.

This was all a far cry from his humble beginnings as the third child of Cecelia (nee Newlove) and Frederick Phillips, a maker of cookers at Glover & Main in Edmonton. The family moved from Tottenham to Chingford, by the river Lea and on the fringes of Epping Forest, in an attempt to improve Frederick’s health, but he died of a chest illness in 1935, and Cecelia, spotting an advert in a newspaper, packed her son off to the Italia Conti school to train as an actor.

Phillips had shown talent in plays at Chingford school and soon supplemented his income from delivering papers and singing at weddings and funerals in All Saints Church, Chingford, by playing a wolf – his stage debut, in 1937, aged 13 – in Peter Pan, starring Anna Neagle, at the London Palladium.

After a spell as a cherub in a stained glass window in Dorothy L Sayers’s The Zeal of Thy House at the Garrick, he returned to the Palladium for the 1938 production of Peter Pan, now playing John Darling in a cast led by Seymour Hicks (“vile”, according to Phillips) as Captain Hook and Jean Forbes-Robertson (“lovely”) as Peter.

By the time he was called up in 1942, he had sung in the children’s chorus at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and acted with John Gielgud and Marie Tempest in Dodie Smith’s Dear Octopus at the Queen’s – the start of a long association with the producers Binkie Beaumont and HM Tennent – and Vivien Leigh and Cyril Cusack in Shaw’s The Doctor’s Dilemma at the Haymarket.

Everyone in the business liked him, and this would stand him in good stead after the second world war. He sounded posh enough to gain a commission as second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, transferring to the Durham Light Infantry, where he was put in charge of the Suffolk transit camp at Chadacre Hall, before being invalided out in 1944.

His first post-demob job was in the box office at the Lyric, Hammersmith. He played Guildenstern in Hamlet at Dundee rep, and discovered his talent for light comedy in a stint at the York rep. His first major West End role was in a sentimental comedy, Daddy Long Legs (1946), at the Comedy (now the Harold Pinter).

The first of more than 100 film appearances came in Lassie for Lancashire (1938). The Hollywood adventure of Les Girls could have led to a latter-day C Aubrey Smith-style career in California, but he preferred London and Pinewood Studios – he was the last living actor to have worked there when they opened. He was also in the cast of the first live BBC broadcast from Alexandra Palace in 1948 – Morning Departure, set on a wartime submarine with Michael Hordern – and played his first BBC television lead in 1952 in My Wife Jacqueline (opposite Joy Shelton), a pioneering but mediocre (he said) sitcom about married life, broadcast live from Lime Grove in six 30-minute episodes.

Over the next 10 years he established himself in the Doctor films as the philandering consultant, Dr Tony Burke, and in the Carry Ons, usually stuck on Joan Sims. He followed the huge stage success of the superb farce Boeing-Boeing (taking over from David Tomlinson in 1963) with the first series of Our Man at St Mark’s on television, in which he played an eccentric new village vicar. When his affair, while still married, with Caroline Mortimer became public, he was no longer deemed suitable as a clergyman, and was succeeded in later series by Donald Sinden.

Opening at the Vaudeville in 1968, he played 655 performances as the upper-class lounge lizard Victor Cadwallader in The Man Most Likely To… and later toured to Australia (where one audience member in Adelaide was reported to have literally died laughing), New Zealand and South Africa, defying the cultural boycott and working in the townships as well as the commercial theatres.

He played in another “saucy” comedy, Sextet, at the Criterion in 1977 (Julian Fellowes was also in the cast), and then led a hugely successful revival of Ray Cooney and John Chapman’s Not Now, Darling at the Savoy in 1979, followed by another world tour.

Phillips said that he at last broke his own mould when cast by Lindsay Anderson as a dithering, weak-willed Gayev in The Cherry Orchard at the Haymarket in 1983 (Joan Plowright played his sister), and he went even further in a brilliant revival by Mike Ockrent of Peter Nichols’s lacerating comedy Passion Play at the Leicester Haymarket, and then Wyndham’s in the West End, in 1984. In 1990, he popped up unexpectedly in The Comic Strip and, also on television, in Chancer, which launched Clive Owen, playing Owen’s scheming boss.

There was now no pattern or predictability as he entered the last phase of an astonishing career. He played the professor in another Chekhov, Julian Mitchell’s rewrite of Uncle Vanya, August, with Anthony Hopkins at Theatr Clwyd, Mold (1994), and then joined the RSC to play a fruity saloon bar roué of a Falstaff in Ian Judge’s The Merry Wives of Windsor (1996) on the main Stratford-upon-Avon stage and, in the Swan, a cynical hotelier in Steven Pimlott’s discovery of Tennessee Williams’s “lost” fantasia, Camino Real. Also in 1996, he played a frisky old Sir Sampson Legend in Love for Love by William Congreve at the Chichester Festival theatre.

On the Whole, It’s Been Jolly Good was the appropriate title of a Peter Tinniswood one-man play he took to the Edinburgh Fringe in 1999, reverting to more raffish type as Sir Plympton Makepeace, a bitterly “dumped” Tory MP from the Shires with no good to say of anyone: “That woman with the loud voice … I think she was the PM but to me she looked like a power-mad swimming baths attendant.” His last stage appearance came as an ageing judge with a back problem in John Mortimer’s Naked Justice at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2001.

In the new millennium he had good TV roles in Monarch of the Glen and Miss Marple. An excellent television version of Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy, adapted by William Boyd (2002), had him in the role of Gervase Crouchback, father of Daniel Craig’s anti-heroic Guy, and he regained his dog collar in Nigel Cole’s charming movie Saving Grace (2000), starring Blenda Blethyn. For the Harry Potter films he voiced the Sorting Hat at Hogwarts.

In 1997 he received a lifetime achievement award from the Evening Standard, and 10 years later another from the Critics’ Circle. In 1998 he was appointed OBE, and in 2008 CBE.

Phillips married the actor Penelope Bartley in 1948, and they had two sons and two daughters. They divorced in 1965, and in 1982 he married the actor Angela Scoular; she took her own life in 2011. Two years later he married Zara Carr, and she survives him, along with his children.

🔔 Leslie Samuel Phillips, actor, born 20 April 1924; died 7 November 2022

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#JUST FOR BOOKS #Leslie Phillips #in memoriam

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abwwia · 3 months

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Dorothy L. Sayers: “Are Women Human?” #repost

Dorothy L. Sayers: “Are Women Human?” #repost Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893 – 1957) was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic. via Wikipedia #PalianSHOW

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 Jun 1893 – 17 Dec 1957)was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic. via Wikipedia “Dorothy L. Sayers is now famous for her Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane detective series, but she was equally well known during her life for an essay asking “Are Women Human?”Women’s rights were expanding rapidly during Sayers’s lifetime; she and her friends were…

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#Dorothy L. Sayers #women in literature

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alredered · 1 year

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Alredered Remembers Dorothy Leigh Sayers, mystery novelist and Christian writer,on her birthday.

“If we are going to disbelieve a thing, it seems on the whole to be desirable that we should first find out what, exactly, we are disbelieving.” - Dorothy Leigh Sayers

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dearvoidgoodnight · 3 years

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I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job.

Harriet Vane

#harriet vane #gaudy night #Dorothy Sayers #Dorothy L. Sayers #dorothy leigh sayers #happy birthday dorothy

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sophielovesbooks · 4 years

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Sophie’s Exhaustive Dark Academia List

For a while now, since my dark academia rec list was such an unexpected success, I’ve wanted to create a list of all the dark academia books I’m personally aware of, regardless of whether I have already read them, as sort of a resource for the community. I have now done just that!

The titles in bold are the ones I have read. The ones I would especially recommend (which, okay, yeah, are almost all of the ones I’ve read) are in bold and italics. Note that this doesn’t mean I loved absolutely everything about the recommended book, just that I think it was good or worth reading overall.

If anybody is aware of a dark academia read that didn’t make the list, please leave a comment and I’ll update the list! Thank you! And thank you to everyone who has already recommended titles to me, helping me compile this list! :)

Also, just to be clear: My personal definition of dark academia would be a story that is set at a school or university or focuses heavily on academia otherwise (maybe the characters are in a secret book or debate club, discuss academic topics, something like that) and in which something bad or dark happens. This could be a crime (violent or non-violent), an accidental death, something supernatural going on... Note: Some of the books on the list (meaning of those I haven’t read) might only fit a looser definition of dark academia, e.g. maybe they have a dark subject matter and include some intellectual elements, even if the setting isn’t actually an academic institution.

And now, without further ado, enjoy!! As I said, I hope this will be a good resource for the dark academia community! And I want to update this list regularly so that it’s as exhaustive as possible! :)

A Beautiful Doom (Laura Pohl)

Academy Gothic (James Tate Hill)

Ace of Spades (Faridah Abike-Ayimide)

A Fatal Inversion (Barbara Vine)

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (Holly Black)

A Great and Terrible Beauty (Libba Bray)

A Lesson in Vengeance (Victoria Lee)

An Education in Ruin (Alexis Bass)

A Question of Holmes (Brittany Cavallaro)

A Separate Peace (John Knowles)

As Good As Dead (Holly Black)

A Student of History (Nina Revoyr)

A Study in Charlotte (Brittany Cavallaro)

All Summer in a Day (Ray Bradbury)

As I Descended (Robin Talley)

Bad Habits (Amy Gentry)

Black Chalk (Christopher J. Yates)

Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)

Bunny (Mona Awad)

Cat Among the Pigeons (Agatha Christie)

Catherine House (Elisabeth Thomas)

Different Class (Joanne Harris)

Dismantled (Jennifer McMahon)

D.O.G.S. (M. A. Bennett)

For Your Own Good (Samantha Downing)

F.O.X.E.S. (M. A. Bennett)

Gaudy Night (Dorothy L. Sayers)

Gentleman and Players (Joanna Harris)

Girlhood (Cat Clarke)

Give Me Your Hand (Megan Abbott)

Good Girl, Bad Blood (Holly Black)

Good Girls Lie (J. T. Ellison)

Hex (Rebecca Dinerstein Knight)

House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)

How We Fall Apart (Katie Zhao)

If We Were Villains (M. L. Rio)

In My Dreams I Hold A Knife (Ashley Winstead)

Kill All Your Darlings (David Bell)

Killing November (Adriana Mather)

Miss Pym Disposes (Josephine Tey)

Murder Scholastic (Janet Caird)

Ninth House (Leigh Bardugo)

Party Girls Die in Pearls (Plum Sykes)

Peace Breaks Out (John Knowles)

People Like Us (Dana Mele)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (Joan Lindsay)

Private (Kate Brian)

Shadow of the Lions (Christopher Swann)

Sleepwalking (Meg Wolitzer)

Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Marisha Pessl)

S.T.A.G.S. (M.A. Bennett)

Summer Sons (Lee Mandelo)

The Basic Eight (Daniel Handler)

The Bellweather Revival (Benjamin Wood)

The Book and the Brotherhood (Iris Murdoch)

The Case for Jamie (Brittany Cavallaro)

The Chandler Legacies (Abdi Nazemian)

The Club (Takis Würger)

The Deceivers (Kristen Simmons)

The Devil Makes Three (Tori Bovalino)

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (E. Lockhart)

The End of Mr. Y (Scarlett Thomas)

The Furies (Katie Lowe)

The Furies (Natalie Haynes)

The Girls Are All So Nice Here (Laurie Elizabeth Flynn)

The Hand on the Wall (Maureen Johnson)

The Ivies (Alexa Donne)

The Lake of Dead Languages (Carol Goodman)

The Last of August (Brittany Cavallaro)

The Lessons (Naomi Alderman)

The Likeness (Tana French)

The Lying Game (Ruth Ware)

The Maidens (Alex Michaelides)

The Mary Shelley Club (Goldy Moldavsky)

The Night Climbers (Ivo Stourton)

The Orchard (David Hopen)

The Secret History (Donna Tartt)

The Secret Place (Tana French)

The Shadow Year (Hannah Richell)

The Swallows (Lisa Lutz)

The Truants (Kate Weinberg)

The Vanishing Stairs (Maureen Johnson)

The Wave (Morton Rhue)

The Wishing Game (Patrick Redmond)

The Wyndham Case (Imogen Quy)

The Year of the Gadfly (Jennifer Miller)

These Violent Delights (Micah Nemerever)

They Never Learn (Layne Fargo)

They Wish They Were Us (Jessica Goodman)

T.I.G.E.R.S. (M. A. Bennett)

Truly Devious (Maureen Johnson)

Trust Exercise (Susan Choi)

Very Bad People (Kit Frick)

White Ivy (Susie Yang)

Without Anette (Jane B. Mason)

#dark academia #da #sophie's exhaustive dark academia list #the secret history #tsh #you know i have to tag it extra haha #bc lots of people don't know the term dark academia #only: 'like the secret history'#which is also how da books are often marketed #dark academia aesthetic #dark academia community #enjoy <3 #i just added so many new ones to this list!!

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fic writer tag game!

Tagged by @allegoriesinmediasres who is diligent in tagging me in these, thus keeping all of you up to speed, gracias!

how many works do you have on AO3?

what’s your total AO3 word count?

445,227 [FOUR NOVELS. i could punch a wall]

how many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

oh lawrd

what are your top 5 fics by kudos?

hermione granger and the ex-death eater with ptsd, mr. and mrs. krennic, the sirmione one i lowkey resent for being more popular than my sirmione one that took far more effort to write, the first frozen, the better frozen

do you respond to comments, why or why not?

most of them! i appreciate every single gesture of love, feedback, conversations, etc. and want you to know it

what’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

it’s a coin flip between the one that made me love odile more than all those other yahoos or the one about hades and persephone featuring a bloody kiss and an empty, dusty road. actually it’s probably... it’s odile. but i went to the trouble of linking the p&H so it stays

do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you’ve written?

ngl i am still not 100% on what a crossover is. characters from one fandom kicking it with characters from another, right? i’ve never done that

have you ever received hate on a fic?

not in the way this question means. i’ve gotten some vitriol targeting characters’ actions (lol why do so many people hate sansa) but typically my inbox is a joy to open, thank you all ♡

do you write smut? if so what kind?

nah. sometimes i’ll set the stage but y’all’s healthy imaginations can take it from there (and better than i ever could)

have you ever had a fic stolen?

better not 🔪

have you ever had a fic translated?

both of the frozens are currently being translated into russian, medicine was translated into chinese but the link vamoosed

have you ever co-written a fic before?

nope. sounds like a friendship ruiner masquerading as a fun time

what’s your all time favorite ship?

... how long is your program?

i adore hades and persephone; wendy and hook check a multitude of boxes; hero and don john are going to leave a mark; i’ll leave it at that

what’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

*hides under rock* i’m not resurrecting peaceful ghosts

what are your writing strengths?

visuals, making people ship heinous pairings

What are your writing weaknesses?

i’ll take ‘what is plot’ for 500, alex

what are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

there are ways to do it that aren’t irritating but usually that isn’t what happens (i include my own guilty fics in this as well as every single published author with the sole exception of dorothy leigh sayers who said ‘sorry not sorry if you don’t speak french’ and transformed clouds of witness from a charming murder mystery into the biggest possible flex)

what was the first fandom you wrote for?

💖 speaking of WIMSEYS, YO 💖

what’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

i love all my children equally. but the ones that spark joy at this precise moment are: the one with all the snarky ghosts and one sweetheart - no the other one, eliza really thinks she’s going to marry freddy in the year of our lord 2015, roseanna mccoy gets the happy ending with hot one-eyed boyd holbrook that she deserved, darcy isn’t 100% certain that elizabeth is winding him up but they sure are square dancing, mary margaret falls in love with colin o’donoghue just like all the rest of us, i do my best to channel nora ephron and hope she would be proud of me, cinderella and the king get it on (uhh spoilers), my ultra-favorite cranky marrieds. OOF, this one always makes me think of a 120-count box of freshly minted crayolas, sure hope everyone in bluebell alabama has unlimited data plans, hero is the most sweetest

Tagging: anyone who has actually read this far and has ever written fic. i can’t keep track of all of you but you have your mission

#tag games #fic: mine #fanfic #long post

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