us bearable to ourselves.
Reading makes us see what we’ve stopped noticing.
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makes us see what we’ve stopped noticing.
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The Tyger, The Lamb, and a Life in Between
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Same method. Less room for error.
If students struggle in essays, it’s rarely because they know nothing.
It’s because they haven’t yet turned what they know into something they can use.
That’s the gap this closes.
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#GeorgeBorrow 's #WindOnTheHeath exchange with Jasper Petulengro #19thCentury
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Thanks to @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social for setting the usual thought-provoking theme.
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returns, not diminished but amplified, each time it speaks.
Reading Angelou reminds us that meaning is not only found in what is said, but in how it is said, how often, and who is able to say it.
Reading makes us see what we’ve stopped noticing.
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→ what needs fixing
→ what to try next, right here, in this sentence
That’s the difference between correcting a piece of writing …
and building a writer.
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Holding the book "From Chinese Cosmology to English Romanticism" in front of cherry trees in full bloom and a bicycle
Yu Liu's book "From Chinese Cosmology to English Romanticism" covers Anglo-Chinese relations 1600-1830 and their influence (via Spinoza) on #RomanticLiterature - e.g. #Coleridge & #Wordsworth - & art & landscape gardening
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always in the process of revising, whether we mean to or not. And then we have to contend, too, with the forces who want to influence that process.
Reading makes us see what we’ve stopped noticing.
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2 stacks of books by (on the left) & on (on the right) John Fowles, with "The French Lieutenant's Woman" standing in the middle. The books are positioned on a wooden table in the library, with several library shelves filled with books in the background
Another 100th birthday already: John Fowles, author of "The French Lieutenant's Woman", "The Magus" & many other Postmodern novels, was #BOTD 100 years ago.
Find many of his works & secondary works of #LiteraryStudies on Fowles in our collection!
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Donne's religion is urgent, disruptive, almost violent: a desire not simply to believe, but to be remade.
Reading Donne is not to find answers, but to encounter a mind in the act of wrestling with itself.
Reading makes us see what we’ve stopped noticing.
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what arrives, but what takes hold.
Reading makes us see what we’ve stopped noticing.
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this week's theme.
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what works.
Not just what’s missing.
But what needs to change. And how.
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an excerpt from a PG Wodehouse novel that I can't copy and paste right now
P.G. Wodehouse disproves the theory that if *every* page is a highlight, then the book has *no* highlights.
He didn't care how unimportant a given scene was, in terms of the big plot or themes; why not make it shine anyway?
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Woolf’s genius lies in showing that what matters is not simply what happens, but how it is experienced: how meaning is made in the act of observing.
Reading makes us see what we’ve stopped noticing.
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often oblivious to what we're doing.
Reading makes us see what we’ve stopped noticing.
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#EnglishLiterature
#Literature
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#AmericanLiterature
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#Reading #NYR2026
Holding the book "In Transition" in front of a pink cherry tree in bloom
"In Transition" by Emily Corbett covers the past 20 years of contemporary #YALiterature with #transgender characters and/or by #transAuthors (fiction & #memoirs) & a perspective on the YA book market in UK & USA 🏳️⚧️
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A theme-free #ShakespeareSunday weekend sees Shakespeare almost blowing his ten-syllable ‘budget’ on just two glorious words!
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Essays begin with ideas, connections, and structure. One you've got the last one, the others become a lot easier.
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Thirty model analyses showing how strong students think about Shakespeare’s language.
If you’d like the full analysis of this quotation, you can download it here:
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