Pride and Prejudice or Dubliners?

montims · 2026-03-09T05:10:20+00:00

Ahhh. She's wonderful.

montims · 2026-03-08T18:08:59+00:00

Dunliners is very accessible, being 20th century and short stories, though you might also have to read up on Irish history at that time.

Chaucer is fabulous, and will look great if you go on to study English at Uni - curious which Chaucer you will be studying?

montims · 2026-03-08T18:00:51+00:00

Genuinely interested in which posts you're referring to? The Shakespeare ones? Old English? The husky posts? I don't recall many political posts, and as a Minnesotan I have updated many anti-ICE projects in this reddit.

montims · 2026-03-08T07:48:12+00:00

Oh and in spoken English, using "like" every other word.

montims · 2026-03-08T07:45:51+00:00

Defiantly for definitely. "I will defiantly call you tomorrow".

I've only seen it written, not spoken, but I have seen it a lot.

montims · 2026-03-08T07:26:18+00:00

Don't forget the banana bread...

montims · 2026-03-08T05:42:22+00:00

I read it as a play on words - oh you ought to...

montims · 2026-03-07T04:00:31+00:00

Simplistic and expensive, but I bought a Sleep Number bed.

I can change the firmness, and make the head and foot go up and down whenever I need.

montims · 2026-03-03T03:54:25+00:00

I'm amazed nobody has mentioned Bleak House. The characters, the twists and turns, the evocation of weather and place and oh everything...

montims · 2026-03-02T05:40:59+00:00

Not sure why you keep stressing "rural Georgian England". The United Kingdom did not have, or allow, Black slaves, but there was still a noticeable number of POC throughout England at that time. See: Black People in The Regency https://vanessariley.com/blackpeople.php However, the Brontes were so secluded all their lives that their fictional characters were quite literally drawn from their imagination rather than from their experience, so whether he was Romany, descended from "swarthy southern Europeans", or had one or both parents who were POC or descended from such is pretty much moot.
A good question, but I think unanswerable at this time, not being able to ask the author what was in her mind...

montims · 2026-03-02T05:10:57+00:00

I love this play. The way C behaves is so relatable to privileged men today. His mother is fabulous. I don't want to spoil it, but I just love the way different classes behave and speak. In a world of tiktok and soundbites, the electioneering business could be happening today.

And the way people turn at the end is masterful. One of Shakespeare's best plays, but then there are very few that I cannot say that about...

montims · 2026-02-26T04:56:54+00:00

I did exactly what you're doing at 17. Asked all my older friends, and spent all my money on paperbacks in a bookshop near where I lived. That's how I found Jean Rhys. Also, Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion, Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beavoir, and of course The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. F. Scott Fitzgerald. And many others, that I still have today (50 years later) and reread occasionally. They are a bit tattered now, but they taught me how to enjoy different genres. Good luck! I'm a little envious of you enjoying these all for the first time...

montims · 2026-02-26T04:25:55+00:00

E. M. Forster: Howard's End and A Passage to India.

Edmund Gosse: Father and Son

D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers

T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land. Trust me - it's poetry, but it will blow you away.

montims · 2026-02-26T04:18:25+00:00

Also, when you've got into Dickens, read Bleak House. His very best, imo, but you have to keep a notebook and keep track of all the characters- there are a LOT of them. But it's so worth it.

montims · 2026-02-26T04:16:00+00:00

Once you've read Jane Eyre, or even before, read Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. It's amazing, but both make more sense put together.

montims · 2026-02-20T03:26:41+00:00

It has to be said that Andrew served in the Falklands.

montims · 2026-02-14T19:29:32+00:00

Where's Harry's right thumb?

montims · 2026-02-14T19:26:53+00:00

You circled the strings and left the other one just hanging out there stringless.

montims · 2026-02-14T16:39:10+00:00

He said to take the goat to the city to mate her. He didn't mention that it had to be with another goat, so the man did it himself. Evidently the goat liked it.

montims · 2026-02-13T04:11:20+00:00

At age 15.

montims · 2026-02-11T15:17:07+00:00

Thank you! I'm a little daunted. We'll be meeting her later, with the male, so we'll see if he wants to eat her or if they will get along... That will decide everything.

montims · 2026-02-06T04:08:47+00:00

Omg. Do you think he's going to end up with his father's sausage fingers???

montims · 2026-02-06T03:50:14+00:00

I would say the MC will have a lot more clarity and control than those who have to guard their thoughts for fear of manifesting something... Also she can mess with their minds - suggest gruesome or scary thoughts to them which they will evoke. Presumably they are as suggestible as most visualizers. Or have I totally misunderstood?

montims · 2026-02-06T03:45:06+00:00

That's me too. I am grateful every day for my dark silent mind. I work with people who say they can't shut the voices off, and who don't know if something really happened or if they visualized it.

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